Im February 26, 2023. No final decision yet. Some January and February applicants haven’t received decisions yet.
The processing time is 29 months and Im over 30 months already. Its approximate time they took to finalize previous decisions in last 6 months.
Maybe we should add additional 6 months to the processing time. This year they have 100,000 more permanent residencies to give by the end of the year and they already gave almost 300,000 till now. This is the reason the process is slowed down for everyone. Probably we will notice a spike in processing times as well. Im not discouraging anyone but trying to figure out what’s going on. Its unfair they dont go queue wisely. All the applications are all over the place and hard to understand the whole process. I have been reading people getting approved from the same month I applied since last 4 months, But im still at the same spot. I called IRCC and they sent a message to my officer a month ago. And in reply I received that my application is in queue and the officer acknowledged that I am past my processing time. It wasn’t much of a help. We are only 4 months away from next year and there will be new quotas. Good luck.