Little update (no thrills). My app was received on June 3, still waiting on AOR. Managed to call IRCC, didn't get much information apart from that they opened my app and started data entry. No sign of it being returned as of yet, so a little reassurance is always good. Just have to be patient.
What I think might be causing the AOR delay in our case is that we're applying from within the European Union. We didn't translate birth or marriage certificates. We ordered them in all European languages, because that's an option. This way it's official and we don't have to translate as English and French are already there along with at least a dozen other languages. That makes it not really "user friendly". Since they have to enter all the data into the system, it might take longer to process. Just my "hopeful" idea