I just joined this boat
Submitted app on Oct 26. Haven't heard back anything yet. Called CIC once and enquired using the Web form twice and they all say your application is still within normal processing times even though CIC website says it's 5 days?
I don't get it. I'm so damn stressed. I have a flight booked for the 30th of November.
I also applied for a visa outside Canada using the Pakistan visa office (where I'll be going).
Now I'm contemplating whether I should take this risk and just go to Pakistan to get my visa from there.
But I'm dying thinking what if Pakistani visa office delays it like this too? I have work to get back to here.
This is ridiculous. Immigrant life sucks :'(