FINALLY: Wife got her passport, visa, and COPR today (16 May 2014). Landing in Canada next week...woo hoo!!!
Here's our very detailed timeline:
Application submission till its arrival at CPC-Mississauga (CPC-M): 8 days.
Application arrival at CPC-M till CPC-M AOR: none, as our application forms got lost.
Application arrival at CPC-M till sponsorship approval: 77 days (not the norm, since our forms got lost in transit and we had to redo them.)
Sponsorship approval till AOR from SVO: 8 days.
SVO AOR till 2nd med request: 286 days (9 months and 11 days)
2nd medical exam request till "In Process" and passport request: 9 days ("In Process" and PPR came on the exact same day). Wife did re-med 6 days after the request.
Wife didn't have to attend an interview. She also didn't have to submit a 2nd police clearance.
Passport arrival in SVO till visa issuance: 27 days.
PPR letter told wife to wait 6 weeks since re-med before sending passport, but she sent her passport 28 days after re-med since we were absolutely sure that the CIC had already received her re-med results. So we thought, no point in waiting 6 weeks.
Visa issuance till Decision Made: 4 days.
Decision Made till passport, visa, and COPR were mailed back from SVO to my wife: 25 days.
Passport, visa, and COPR mailed back till they arrived at my wife's hands: 10 days.
Kinda slow since wife had no choice but to choose registered mail for the return. Could've been way faster if she used courier.
Total time of this long and arduous journey (application submission till passport back in hands): 479 days a.k.a. 1 year, 3 months, 24 days a.k.a. 15 months 24 days.
Good luck to the rest of you!! Your visas are coming soon!!!