oh btw, your spouse will need the FBI background check too and those take a couple weeks now. It took around 3-4 months for us (mailed it in March, got them in June :/) so best to get them a little early. But there's a thingy that says it has to be that CIC will receive them within 3 months from when FBI ran the check? I'm not entirely sure. But yeah, waiting for that background check caused the major delay in sending our application to CIC :/
