Sponsorship evaluation for Outland takes a few days, if not a single day. And yes, it looks long, but I suggest you guys learn to roll with it. If you're freaking out now, what happens when your files get to the visa offices and the REAL wait begins?
At a time when it was taking 30 days for sponsors to be approved (Feb-Mar 2011), it took us 81 days. I had to wait patiently while CPC-M went back and forth with the province of ON to get some paperwork cleared for my husband. At the time, it was something of a record on this forum for sponsor approval, at least that I have seen since I started coming here. I think during that time only one other sponsor had a longer time than us, and for her it took somewhere on the order of 100 days or a bit more.
Government offices get backlogged all the time. Last year, there was the mail strike and it so happened to coincide with the introduction of GCMS at CPC-M and the times spiked, just like they are doing now, so there is likely something going on there which we don't know. All we can do is hope that whatever the reason is, maybe it works out for the good in the long run, in that they may have instituted some business process changes that may initially increase the timelines in CPC-M, but decrease the timelines at the visa offices. We don't know, but we can still hope, no?
