Dear all,
I just want to understand the expected duration between filling the express entry profile and moving to Canada. Assuming everything goes fine here.
What could be the minimum and maximum duration here?
Thanks,
Puneet
Hi Puneet,
It really depends, but CIC processes most applications within 6 months (see here for more info: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/next_steps.asp).
However, this is for your complete application (not just profile), and being invited to apply after submitting your profile can take a few weeks to months depending on your initial score. The minimum is probably 4-5ish months if things go very smoothly, but there is no maximum if you donāt have a high score or donāt submit the applications properly.
Best of luck!
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Thanks @anon28902228 
One more question. After getting PR, a person must move to Canada immediately or can he/she wait for sometime before moving there?
-Puneet
You have to claim your PR status by landing in Canada within a year from getting PR. After which you will receive your PR cards by mail (To a Canadian Address). You will need your PR card if you wish to fly into Canada. The only other alternative is to drive in with just your landing confirmation document.
You have to live in Canada for 2 years out of 5 to keep your PR and 3 out of 5 to be eligible for citizenship.
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Considering you have a good enough CRS score, it should take a maximum of one month to get invited to apply for a PR. And you get 90 days to submit all the documents after that. Once you submit your documents, the best case time line is 60-90 days and worst case is 180 days for you to get your landing permit upon which you ll be issue a PR card.
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Hereās my timeline:
- Oct end: Gave IELTS, score arrived in two weeks
- Nov-mid: Submitted EE profile.
- Nov-end: Got ITA based on CRS score
- January end: submitted all required documents (Medical, ECAās PCCs, you name it)
- Mid-March: Received notification that application was āCanceledā
because Bachelors degree was counted but ECA not submitted. Bummer! 
- April: Submitted ALL documents again including the missing ones
- August-mid: Got PPR!
but no ādecision madeā 
- August-end: Online status changed to Approved, also got the Passport with CoPR and visa
- September: Did my ālandingā and became a PR
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One small correction here: You have to move to Canada before your PR visa expires, but the expiry date on your PR visa will be you medical exam expiration date (one year after you take the exam), or passport expiry date, whichever comes first.
See above for my answer.
Did you have any canadian experience or canadian relative or canadian education?
As i read somewhere last cutoff or lowest cutoff till now has been 434ā¦ so I am wondering how do we get score of 400+ without any of theseā¦ Please suggest.
None.
I have US education (PhD, MS) and Indian education (B.E.), and US and Indian work experience.
Your IELTS, age, education, work experience all count towards your score. You can use the crs score calculator thatās given on the CIC website for a rough estimate of how much you might score.
Thanks for reply. So what was your CRS score or IELTS scoreā¦ Because i figured out that even with minimum 7 band max possible is 425-430ā¦ I assume you had band 8+ for each section of IELTS then 
Does Distance Education countā¦ My husband has B.E. but then he did distance MBA ā¦not sure if we should show itā¦ I have M.Tech. from India but i can not be primary applicant for PR as i donāt have experience in ITā¦ I was a lecturer in Engineering collegeā¦ Any idea if they will accept Lecturer NOC code experience?
IELTS 8.5 in all sections. CRS was 490+
Try the CRS score calculator (itās a simulator) and see the estimate for both of your profiles. Whichever one is higher should be (will be) primary applicant (assuming you are applying together).
You get more points if you have a Masters vs only a Bachelors. As long as you can get an ECA for a Masters degree it doesnāt matter whether is a distance MBA or anything else.
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Thank you for replyā¦
Someone told me there should not be any GAP in work to be primary applicantā¦
I last worked in 2014, so can I be still primary applicant.
Also, although I have M.Tech but lecturer experience certificate I have currently for 2y8m and I may get 6 months more experience certificate from one previous college where i taught but did not bother to get certificateā¦ Thus that can put me in requirement of minimum of 3 years experience. Should I?
Hi @srhere. As @avj mentioned, there are a number of factors which decide your score. Use the CRS simulator and check how much the score differs if you are the primary applicant versus your husband being the primary applicant. I did this too and found that me being the primary applicant gave a higher score than my husband.
I am not sure what the NOC code for a lecturer is so canāt comment on whether it would be better for you to apply as primary applicant but it is a good idea to gather all your experience certificates and have them ready. Gap in employment does not matter when applying.
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Hi avj,
When you say application cancelled? What does it mean did you have to reapply and pay the fees again?
Also we are in the same boat. My husband has got ECA for master degree from uk but when creating EE profile he added bachelors degree as well with no ECA provided option. We have got the invitation now. Should we remove bachelors altogether from the education tab? We tried doing it and recalculated the points fron āPreview your scoreā it still stay the same. Can you please guide us.
Remove Bachelors, only keep the highest degree (unless you already have ECA for bachelors as well).
No we donāt have Eva for his bachelors. We have now applied for it though after realising that we shouldnāt have included in the education tab in the first place when creating profile. So we will raise a cse and submit the ECA whenever we will receive it. My question is would it matter to remove bachelors degree post ITA as the points are still unaffected. We also canāt put it in the personal section as itās more than 10 yrs ago when he did it.