I had my interview today at Pearson and everything went smoothly. It's been around 5 hours and no approval email. I called into the center and the admin person told me that it could take 5-6 weeks to get my card even though the cbsa agent told me 7-10 days. She said that the application now needs to go to Washington, D.C. and potentially could still not be approved (even though I gave them my biometric data already). Does this make any sense? I thought once they gave you the orientation on the program and took the biometric data that was it. She told me there's no way I'd be getting an approval email today even though multiple people have reported their approval email being almost instant after the interview. I'm confused.

I was pre-approved, had the interview, and now have to get approved again? Something doesn't add up.