Thanks for the eloquent response, gave me a fair idea of the daunting tasks ahead.
You are welcome.
Yes, it can be daunting, and the degree to which that is so varies. Some have an easier time of it. My wife and I hard a difficult start. We were married in April/22, but could not be ready to submit her PR application until November. First, we had to wait for the "Official Philippines Statistics Authority" marriage certificate, the IRCC requires. That took a few months. In June (in hindsight, we should have got onto it much sooner), we started looking into getting her United Arab Emirates police certificate. That was a challenge. We succeeded in that mission only by making an 11-hour flight to Dubai in November/22 to get it. After we submitted, getting her Hong Kong police certificate was a bit difficult, but a cakewalk compared to getting the UAE pcc. So, some would not encounter those difficulties, but some would also face their own, perhaps more burdensome, obstacles.
When we applied, it was still somewhat early in the post-covid era. Covid travel retractions kept my wife and I apart for 2 years. The IRCC posted processing time in mid-2022 was about 22 months. It stood at about 18 months when we submitted our online application in November. Most recently, it has been at 13 months. My wife's application was completed in just about 10 months plus 2 weeks. I was representative for her sister and husband who married in the Phils at same time as us. I filed their application almost 3 weeks after ours. It was completed sooner - in 9 months plus 1 day. Well under the posted time.
I wish you well for an application that proceeds smoothly and quickly.
Let me add that I think
@scylla is right about waiting for AOR. I think your TRV application will then be taken more seriously. The small sampling of applications I have been able to observe on this forum (without attempting any methodical, statistical analysis), seems to be showing a higher success rate for post AOR applications. But then, I have not really paid close attention. We made our third TRV application in late March 2022 - well after AOR, medical completed, PCCs submitted, etc. - and were foolishly optimistic. We were denied with breathtaking alacrity, just a few days. Of course, that was in the dark days pre Sean Fraser announcement in May. We were too scared to submit yet a further TRV in the wake of his encouraging words which, experience seems to be showing, have not ushered in some new, enlightened regime as many (me included) expected.
