Applied on November 20th from Calgary.
Two adults + 1 kid.
Wrote a cover letter, plus included a list of documents (numerated for the officers convenience) that went along with the application. Those included: boarding passes, tax returns, house taxes for 3 years, stub annual reports showing hours worked for 3 years, a letter from my supervisor, a letter of employment etc. The reason I submitted all these extraneous docs was that I wanted to portray us as a family with strong, well established ties in Canada. Will see if it expedites the process. Similar approach helped renew our pr cards in March within....10 calendar days.