@legalfalcon, I contacted IRCC twice over the past few months, and I've been told that security checks are not being referred to the external agencies for processing.
What do you make of this? Is it social distancing restrictions not enabling people to be at the office to process our apps? It seems like tons of us are stuck at the security phase of the entire process, with all else already passed. My app hasn't been touched since August 2020.
And if that is the case, then how are some people still getting CoPR? I've even seen some FSWs get CoPR during 2021, and yet I'm sitting with security "not yet started", and being told IRCC is not sending the apps for that segment of processing at this time, and backlogs are huge, according to agents.