Too soon (way too soon) to discern if there is a "
delay," let alone an "
unusual" delay.
PR card application processing times of up to six months or so are not unusual.
Too soon, even, to discern whether your PR card application met the criteria for automated processing, or has been categorized a complex application, or is a high complex application:
-- fastest processing times are for applications qualifying for automated processing
-- at the other end of the spectrum, high complex applications typically involve non-routine processing which can mean a processing time from a month or three longer to many months longer than the posted processing times
-- otherwise, applications that do not qualify for approval in the automated decision-making process (thus either a complex or high complex application) will go into a queue waiting for an IRCC official (not sure whether it is a processing agent or an IRCC officer) to open and process the application, which is when there will be AoR, and
-- -- not sure what the typical timeline is to AoR for these applications (before most applications were qualifying for the automated decision making process, the timeline for PR card applications to be opened varied between two and three months, sometimes longer)
-- -- most complex PR card applications are likely to be processed and approved within a day or a couple weeks or so of when the application is opened (date of AoR, not date of submission, not date of automated triage determining if the application qualifies for automated decision making), high complex applications, as noted, can take several months longer (in the past many took eight or more months, some a year)
Reminder: the posted processing time is merely how long it has been taking, recently and up to when the processing time is last updated, for at least one more than just half of the PR card applications to be approved. That means a large number of applications experience longer processing times. Again, two to five or six month long processing times are NOT unusual.
