I sent in mid-July 2017 and since Aug in secondary review and my wife sent in June 2017 and since July 2017 in secondary review. Both of us have met residency obligations.. Last change in citizenship applications criteria in 2015 created a pile up of PR renewal applications. And this Oct-2017 citizenship applications criteria change has created the same situation. Last time the people got together and sent a petition to the Minister of Immigration . Not sure how much of a change was effected because of that but I noticed the processing times reduced to approx. 60 after that. It looks like IRCC has severe staff shortage or some other factor which is causing this poor service levels. Calls to IRRC for PR goes to automated response and even the CSE doesn't give proper response other than application is in process. I requested the ATIP officers notes and its over 40 days now and haven't got it. Just 2 days back they replied acknowledged that my request is overdue and is flagged for priority but no commitment on when they will send my ATIP notes.
My App received on 11 Sept 2017, inprocess since November 16, 2017. After that no news, no further documents asked, nothing on status about secondary review. Simply waiting and worried.