Dear forum members, Chris and JandM,
Thank you so much for all your help and calm words throughout this journey. I am so glad to finally use these words, my status online shows APPROVED.
For everyone out there, you have heard and read it so many times, key is to not stress. I do know how stressful it is when you are awaiting such a big decision, where a lot depends on and it is beyond your control, but time frames are impossible to give and stressing about it will not change anything on your case. I have been through this for almost 7 months. As you can see below, from EOI to Decision, it is exactly in the time frame of 9-12 months.
EOI selected: 13 Apr 2016
ITA: 29 Apr 2016
ITA lodged: 25 Jul 2016
Allocation to CO + Employment Verification: 04 Nov 2016
Employment Verification sent to CO: 10 Nov 2016
2PC: 17 Jan 2017
APPROVED: 04 Feb 2017
Awaiting AIP Letter