Hi Carol:
Imagine going into a bank to take out a few dollars from your account. You wait in line behind someone in the queue. A teller slot opens up, and the person in front of you goes to the only open teller in the bank. They decide to pay every bill they have ever had, move money from bonds to a savings account, and perhaps open a new chequing account. It's like this every time you visit the bank, it seems.
I understanding what your saying and it can be that cic and ircc are under staff. there is nothung else we can do because certain countries they do more investigation or cases
Question: How long would it take before you decided not to bank there any more? My guess, probably not long.
This simulation was to express a point. IRCC does not process applications in sequence that they arrive. Consider that the paying of bills might be someone having to get PCC's; the moving of money from bonds to an account could be the examination of a dependant overseas, the opening of a new account could be a medical. Imagine having to wait while the people in front of you would have to complete those tasks?
Thankfully, IRCC does not work like a bank. You are in a queue still, but it is not first-in, first-out. Therefore, cases will not complete in the sequence they came in. Some cases will only have a minor amount of processing, where others will have a tremendous amount.
I understand the urge to analyse, understand and expect when your turn is. That's a primal trait. You want to be finished the process just as bad as every one else does. However, you cannot use the temporal linkage of submission date as an anchor to develop theories of when your turn will be. It has zero basis in fact. We are all here commiserating. We are in this together.