CIC has been working on applications from July 30, 2013 for 2 months now.

[missingmyspouse52]

My wife and I applied for Inland spousal sponsorship and she has been here for a little about 15 months. We keep getting extensions on her visitor visa and had submitted an OWP application with our spousal sponsorship application last September 4, 2013 but it seems stage 1 was supposed to take 10 months, then it changed to 11 months then 12 months and now it has changed to 13 months. How is it that CIC can change the rules and not make any progress on submitted applications? Anyone else finding this frustrating?

 

[driftcars]

It is not that CIC changing the rules, they're only updating how much time, on average, to process the applications. When you submitted your application, and you saw it's taking 10 months to process, it doesn't mean if you apply today and your application will need to wait 10 months.

I think it means CIC was processing the file they received 10 months ago. So it really depends on how many applications they have received prior to receiving yours, which means how many "waiting to be processed files" was ahead of yours.

It's not like when you are lining up in person and you can see how many people is ahead of you. It is more like you line up and you have no idea how many people ahead of you, and CIC is just telling you that the person they're serving now has waited 10 months.

I understand that this is very frustrating, but there is nothing you can do except being patient.

 

[Ponga]

My wife and I applied for Inland spousal sponsorship and she has been here for a little about 15 months. We keep getting extensions on her visitor visa and had submitted an OWP application with our spousal sponsorship application last September 4, 2013 but it seems stage 1 was supposed to take 10 months, then it changed to 11 months then 12 months and now it has changed to 13 months. How is it that CIC can change the rules and not make any progress on submitted applications? Anyone else finding this frustrating?

It's too bad that you've been paying for visitor extensions, since she would have been covered under `implied status' that an OWP (when submitted WITH an inland application while the person is in status) gives the applicant.