Timing of spousal sponsorship: apply sooner rather than later?

[DBHC]

The time is not average.
It's the time that takes to process 80% of the total. It means that 79% of all applications are processed faster than that.
For USA is taking 8-10 months and for UK is taking 10-12 months.
The 28 months is because they are doing the Pakistani application as well.

Wow. I completely missed that it's not an average. That's a huge relief. I was struggling to figure out how I was going to make this work despite getting started on my application relatively early. By the way, where did you get the information on average times?

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Wow. I completely missed that it's not an average. That's a huge relief. I was struggling to figure out how I was going to make this work despite getting started on my application relatively early. By the way, where did you get the information on average times?

Mostly from the forum spreadsheets and the experiences of forum members. There is also an open data set published by the government.

Data set: http://data.gc.ca/data/dataset/427337d0-7c36-4fed-8428-c6a63f8c19b3

London spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kYJ0Xo_jHLeArkCVeicZyqIE8YLpnZqVJlFrnpmKMx0/edit?pli=1#gid=396125530

Ottawa spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18NpCwiqXpOUdH3hN-f4J2gJ7T_-B97WoK3vlQMNKjAM/htmlview#gid=0

 

[DanSlh]

Wow. I completely missed that it's not an average. That's a huge relief. I was struggling to figure out how I was going to make this work despite getting started on my application relatively early. By the way, where did you get the information on average times?

Exactly as said above.
There's links on my signature.
My VO, for example, states 5 months but my process got 20 days at stage 2.
Pay the fees upfront, send medical results, check for the most recent updqtes... avoid anything that could delay your application and that's all.