Just out of curiosity and boringness.
Though I'm not applying inside Canada, I tried calling these numbers:
Call Centre telephone number: 1-888-242‑2100
Automated telephone service (available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
If you have a touch-tone telephone, you can listen to prerecorded information about CIC programs, and check the status of your application.
Call Centre agents - Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., your local time, except for statutory holidays. Services are available in French and English.
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, or you have a speech impediment and use a text telephone, you can access the TTY service from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. your local time by calling 1-888-576‑8502.
Source: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/index.asp
However, a voice prompt says, "your call cannot be completed as dialed... Please check the number and dial again, ......two HH". What is "two HH"? I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Yet, I can get through the TTY number. It's really weird because I can get through all CIC's toll-free numbers, but not "1-888-242-2100".
Thanks.
-pangandoy