The CIC is giving 100% priority to students, tourists, refugees, workers. With the exception of family visas which were filed years ago or near completion, all other family files will remain untouched, and processing times will be allowed to build into several years, with no effort to alleviate backlogs. Canadian families are completely unimportant to PAFSO and the Government. While most progressive countries have spousal process times of 4 to 6 months, it takes 14 months to 4 years to sponsor ... » more