I hope someone will give me good answer. I received an ITA; I put my wife as non accompanying spouse just to get more CRS points. Now I am trying to apply the PR but I am confused how to answer the question, why your wife is non-accompanying? My wife is already here with me and she is on an open work permit, based on my postgraduate open work permit. It is still valid for a year. The CRS cut off point dropped to 75 only after I was invited with my 457 points. Had I had included my spouse, my points would have been 431.