Thank you both for your kind words!
Unfortunately I have not been able to submit my OINP application yet. I really want to move to Toronto and need that provincial nomination. I was about to register and submit on July 25, when they closed off the HCP stream. I have been waiting every day since then for OINP to reopen so I can submit my documents. I would be beating myself up every day for missing the deadline by a day, but then I think about others in my same boat, including my comrade
@sundar17feb99 who missed it by an hour, and feel more calm.
I have always been the type to fight tooth and nail to make something happen when I set my mind to it. Being up there in age is a difficult obstacle to overcome, as my only options to increase my CRS enough to get ITA are provincial nomination or job offer with LMIA. Those of us in our 40s lose 11 points per birthday, unlike you 30 somethings who lose only 5 or 6, so my OINP opportunity is also not secure. If OINP does not reopen by the time my NOI expires in January, I will be without NOI and under 400 CRS on my birthday in February. Thus I am also studying French in hopes that I can do enough even to get another CRS point to bring me back to 400+.
I cannot believe that I am in my 40s, as I really am a 20 year old who just happens to have been 20 for the past 20+ years! I look, act and feel like a 20 something and don't think I'll ever grow up mentally or emotionally. However, I can't keep feeling too bad about being older, as my fellow American
@tjsecondtry is even older.
@Fishal2017 I think you're confusing me with
@tjsecondtry who is going so far as attending university in Canada to increase her CRS! If I don't get ITA by the end of 2018, I might have to do the same ... but come hell or high water, I will be joining you all in Canada!