If your application is pretty straightforward and your are supremely confident about it i.e. got all the documents in the right format and double and triple checked all the details, then yes they are not very useful since it is just a waiting game. However some applications are more complex than the others (e.g. your employer might have refused to give the work experience letter in the right format, so you might have had to make do with whatever your employer gave you + an LOE) and some people may want the peace of mind that the documents they submitted were in the right format and they didn't unintentionally miss something. If at least 4-5 months have passed since your AOR, then there is a good chance that your eligibility has been reviewed by a case processing agent at the very least (and maybe criminality is done too). If there is something wrong with your documents, the case processing agent would have flagged it by this point, so you will be able to take corrective measures ASAP. If everything is good and the agent has passed your eligibility, then you can have peace of mind that you have (almost) crossed the biggest hurdle. However there are cases where no progress is made on the application even after 6 months, in that case yeah it is useless.I requested my GCMS notes last week, but my wife raised a good question, what good is it for?
Say for example that my notes come back and they’ve done almost nothing, what could I possibly do?
Forgive my ignorance, but don’t GCMS notes seem like an exercise in seeing what has been done, and nothing else?