Imagine how many ITAs wasted which would have otherwise gone to 1000s of deserving aspirants sitting on lower scores. 🥺😠
Reminder: You need 12months of eligible valid work experience to qualify in a category draw.

Imagine how many ITAs wasted which would have otherwise gone to 1000s of deserving aspirants sitting on lower scores. 🥺😠
Reminder: You need 12months of eligible valid work experience to qualify in a category draw.

The regulatory changes to the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) that take effect on March 30, 2026, mean the following: 🔅 Transfer of Authority: The authority to assess a candidate’s ability to be economically established in Canada and their intent to reside in the nominating province or territory (PT) has been transferred from IRCC to the provinces and territories themselves. 🔅 Reliance on Nomination: IRCC officers can now rely on a valid nomination certificate as proof that the PTs have already conducted these assessments and that the candidate is in a Minister-approved stream. 🔅 Scope: These changes apply to all existing pending applications (inventory) as well as new applications submitted after the effective date. 🔅 Exclusions: Individuals nominated under a “passive investment proposal” or those intending to participate in or having participated in an “immigration-linked investment scheme” are excluded from membership in the provincial nominee class.
IRCC is now outright refusing applications on the basis that work experience documents carry duties that are “direct paraphrase” or “closely adapted” from the NOC website. The concern is that the duties are not aligned with employer-specific detail. I have seen a total of 5 such refusals over the last 10 days. Please note that you should NOT be drafting your own duties – just by paraphrasing/adapting duties from NOC website – rather your employer should be providing unique/specific duties as applicable to your job role. Applicant beware! It seems IRCC officers are being incentivised to refuse applications on the smallest and sometimes irrelevant grounds.
I am not sure how many of you have noticed, but IRCC, candidly made a very subtle but yet very important change to the Ministerial Instructions that govern the category draws. While, the work experience requirement has been increased to 12 months from the earlier 6months, they have also made a further change, whereby the applicant’s eligibility for the category is established only if 12 months work experience has been completed before receiving the ITA. Earlier with the 6 months work experience eligibility could have been fulfilled until the day of submission of the application. 𝚂̲𝚘̲ ̲𝚒̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚌̲𝚊̲𝚜̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚢̲𝚘̲𝚞̲ ̲𝚑̲𝚊̲𝚟̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚌̲𝚎̲𝚒̲𝚎̲𝚟̲𝚎̲𝚍̲ ̲𝚢̲𝚘̲𝚞̲𝚛̲ ̲𝙸̲𝚃̲𝙰̲ ̲𝚠̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚑̲ ̲𝚊̲ ̲𝚜̲𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚛̲ ̲𝚍̲𝚞̲𝚛̲𝚊̲𝚝̲𝚒̲𝚘̲𝚗̲ ̲𝚘̲𝚏̲ ̲𝚠̲𝚘̲𝚛̲𝚔̲ ̲𝚎̲𝚡̲𝚙̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚒̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚌̲𝚎̲,̲ ̲𝚙̲𝚕̲𝚎̲𝚊̲𝚜̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚙̲𝚊̲𝚢̲ ̲𝚑̲𝚎̲𝚎̲𝚍̲ ̲𝚝̲𝚘̲ ̲𝚝̲𝚑̲𝚎̲ ̲𝚌̲𝚛̲𝚒̲𝚝̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚒̲𝚊̲.̲