That is news to me that Sydney office does the BG. I though they just validate the application and then send it over to the local office for rest of the processing. I honestly stopped checking my trackers since I got the AOR. I will login the day I get an email from themI believe that in most cases Ecas will show "application received" till your background check is in progress and it will then turn to "in process" when BG check is completed and file gets sent from Sydney to local offices. That isn't always the case for everyone though which makes it confusing to say the least.