Inlandappl,
I signed up for e-cas after we sent our application and I have not received an e-mail from them yet. Forget e-cas. I also did not call the call centre.
My husband has his visitor extension thing and I used the client id number from that. I didn't even know that the client id number on that extension is the same client id number that is used for permanent residency. I found out from Love Young on the Inland 2010 thread. I entered my husbands client id number on the cic website where it says check my application status for the first time today just for fun and BAM, I see that it is in process. This was me
We received your application for permanent residence on March 31, 2011.
We started processing your application on April 19, 2011.
I was stoked.