I disagree with the whole varying Queues
I don\'t think TSC maintains separate queues by location. Look at Fam\'s brother, same EB cateogry, same company (so assuming same location) yet got approval in 4 months. The key is that he had his FP done recently.
I still don\'t think that TSC is looking at cases based on RD. I don\'t even think they have them sorted by RD. If that was the case then there are plenty of poeople who have had their FP done for ages but still no action on their cases.
I am noticing more and more cases that have done FP recently getting their cases processed (RFE or Approvals). For those folks that it does not happen I think the problem is getting the FP results matched with the file.
If you read Jose Latour Visit of TSC you will notice that case files are stored in a different location from where the officers are. This is why I think some people who get their FP now will not necessarily have their case looked at.
Again, my theory (which can never be proven unless TSC says), is that anyone that is getting their FP now is more than likely going to have their case looked at fairly quickly after FP. I am basing part of my thoery is that I think the national scheduler (or whatever scheduler) TSC has employed for sending out FP notices will do so by RD, thus ensuring cases are somewhat processed in order.
My feeling on old cases, there is a backlog team working on those cases.
This is all based on pure conjecture based on seeing 3 or 4 cases having FP done in January and getting their approvals in two or three weeks. Then the recent cases of Fundoo, Srinivinod, Fam and his brother. The first three had their cases processed within the 3 weeks of FP and it looks like Fams brother had his case looked at a mere 4 weeks after FP. Again, cannot be definitively proven but if we see more such cases then you can make a strong case for it. The only other thing that I would like to point out, until now I had never heard of cases being processed with such rapidity after FP in TSC. This is just a recent trend.