I have seen numerous posts on this forum off late, where people have either vented out their anger on the slow processing or have shared their hardships of life waiting for the nomination. I am also one of the many people eagerly waiting for the nomination from OINP. I accept that we all have spend considerable amount of time, energy and hard earned money to prepare our application package for OINP. The fact that many of us spent more than a year waiting for the nomination is a serious issue. I mean its called express entry and this is no express processing for sure. Yes I know people used to wait for years altogether but then there was no promise of a processing time either. But all said and done I am going to look at a few positives to come out of this.
1. ITA : My CRS score is 438. Ideally that means I would not have received my ITA as the score has not dropped below 450. So my profile was anyways expiring today if there was no OINP. The fact that I am at least in the reckoning is because OINP is processing my application.
2. Funds : I have shown FD as POF and its growing considerably. So even if IRCC increases the POF limit in future, I am ready for it. The interest I am earning may also actually cover for my OINP processing fee.
3. Time : The delay in processing is actually giving me enough time to understand the whole process. I may be in a better position for the actual process because of all the learning.
4. New Process : Express entry is still a fairly new process and while I wait for my turn, its going to complete 2 years since it began in 2015. The process may be more stream lined and settled by the time I get to the ITA phase.
5. Made some very good friends : Most important of all, I made some very good friends and consider myself very lucky to be one among you all.
Although the wait is excruciating, I have done my part and there is nothing I can do that can change what is supposed to happen. I will be doing a grave mistake if I am going to spoil my 'beautiful today' thinking of a 'not-yet-existent beautiful tomorrow'. Lets think about it but then let it not get to us. Let it not make our life miserable by thinking about it every minute. Some things are best left to time, especially ones that you cannot influence. Make the most of the present. Let the process take its due course.
