They did call in my country for my father's info before my AOR. I really don't know if this is related to my application or not since I helped them to get their visitor visa one or two years ago. I'm from China.
BTW, my bar disappeared since yesterday. I hope they will reduce the projected completion time.
@bbjeon38@jasonliuengr I can now confirm all the May AR’s who haven’t received PAL yet including me , the order in which our files are being processed is different .After I read @bbjeon38 and @jasonliuengr checked with IRCC about their applications yesterday and confirmed their criminality stage has been passed ,I was curious and called IRCC today and the agent told me my file’s first stage was criminality as well which has been passed already and first stage was not eligibility like @simrankaur20 and @Sandynguyen who have already received PAL.
So I withdraw my earlier statement which I made about PAL being skipped for many May AR applicants ,we haven’t received the same as our our first stage was criminality and not eligibility which is still in process therefore let’s keep our fingers crossed for PAL being the next step towards PR accomplishment.