CIC has updated its website to show processing time for inland sponsorship as 12 month wait - for just Stage 1 review. Interestingly, the processing date went backward from processing applications received on July 30, 2014 last week to processing applications received on July 29, 2014 as of today August 8, 2014. No explanation given as to why the progress is going backward. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/times/perm-fc.asp