Hello everyone!!! well I must say looking at the spread sheet sure makes the time go longer everyday...I am the sponsor from Hamilton Canada... and my wife is in Manila... we were married may 7/12 and got our NSO Aug 13/12 sent out app to CIC and approved Oct 16/12....I,m 53 and my wife is 51.. so no dependents...so a shorter form of the IMM 0008.....paid the 1040.00 dollars in advanced as the gov,t said to be faster!!!!so I paid everthing August 29/12... I,m so happy for all you that got a PPR... but since we did our medicals one week before we sent our application it will not expire till August 15/13 I bet my ppr will be over 250 days since the CEM knows our medical expiry....did what our lawyer said .... faster my A@@@@... my wife insisted to get a lawyer... so anyone want to make a bet I,m the last one on here to get a PPR since we did our meds and police clearance 1 week before we sent our application....so far with lawyers fees and 4 trips to Manila..and the expense of our wedding with over 200 people... my cost is 53,000.00 dollars.... now I bet they will ask us for meds again or just let us wait till the end... I sure do yours move faster.... and hiring a lawyer is just more of a nightmare!!!!! good luck everyone.... so off to Manila again... 5th time... Just wish I could go to our embassy to ask a question.... OOPS I forgot!!!! I,m a Canadian....I just have to assume my our application is there... Hey maybe I can say that to Revenue Canada....good luck to you all....