Question, I have applied under self employed author. I also included my medical due to previous submission in Express entry that eventually was cancelled due to police certificate being expired. Question, would they accept it or ask me for another round of physicals? Also, can one have an Express entry account while also applying for self employed author? Thanks.
Hi!
You can be into the Express Entry pool as well as have applied for self employed, however, there are two things to note:
1- Make sure your Express Entry profile and experience, etc match to what you claimed when you applied for self employed. Meaning that if you said you were self employed for 2 years, your EE profile should also have that info. I know it may be obvious, but some people don’t do this and cic has the right to check any other info related to you on their files, including EE, so all must match.
2- If you eventually get an invitation to apply to permanent residency on Express Entry, you must withdraw your self employed application BEFORE going ahead with the EE application, at that point, I suggest you to evaluate at what stage your self employed application is at and then see if it’s really worth it to withdraw and then start a new application under EE.
As per medicals, note that they are usually valid for one year. So if when they get to the point of evaluating your medicals they are expired, they will ask you to do them again.
All the best!!!