Hello everyone.
My AOR is Sept 10th & I had ordered GCMS on 23rd November & received the below response today. Pl suggest what to make out of it.
We are writing to inform you that the stipulated time frame under the Access to Information Act, within which IRCC has to release GCMS notes, has expired and IRCC has not yet released your GCMS notes. The delay could be due to your application being at the final stage - where IRCC prioritizes completing of the approval over GCMS; administrative delays; recent holidays, processing of the application by a different agency; purposeful non-release, or any other factor. IRCC does not disclose the reason.
We have filed a status request with IRCC concerning your request. As soon as we hear anything back, we will promptly notify you.
In an eventuality, if we do not hear anything from IRCC in the next 2 weeks, the only resort left would be to file a complaint with the
Information Commissioner of Canada (ICC), the agency that oversees the release of information requested under the Access to Information Act.
Please be advised that we will only file complaints with ICC if we do not receive a response from IRCC, and only if you are interested in filing the complaint, at no additional cost to you. Further, if the complaint is filed, it has no impact on the processing of your immigration application. All federal agencies have to report the compliance of information requests to ICC anyway.
We, at GET GCMS are committed to providing you the best services and will work diligently towards procuring your GCMS notes as soon as we can. However, we have no control on working of IRCC, but will continue to follow up with them and keep you apprised.
If you may have any questions or concerns in this regard, please do not hesitate to contact us.