I applied Permanent Residence with my lawyer, therefore my lawyer attached to my application. Because of that I was not able to link my application to my cic account. However, after 6 months waiting and being unable to see the detailed status, I removed my lawyers name from my application and I linked my application. As I understand, most of you who linked their application got their useless pre arrival letters. Because I just linked my application, there are no messages. My lawyer did not send me pre arrival letter either. So my question is, does linking PR application to cic account expedites the processing of application. Because my friend linked his application, he got pre arrival letter after 1 month linking the application. And after one more month he got decision made status and one week later he became permanent resident after sending photo and proof of address. I feel like I should have linked my application immediately once immigration started processing my application 6 months ago.