Your case sounds exactly like mine, but swap late 20s for early 30s, and husband has never lived outside Canada.
I'm getting really REALLY tired of seeing people from March getting through. It's painful now.
I've been thinking of contacting my (future) MP to see if there's anything she can do to prod CIC on the entire December issue, but I believe Parliament adjourns for the summer this week, so I don't even know if ANY MP would bother at the moment (and of course, I can't find the calendar I found before... Google is not my friend today :

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I don't know what else to do...