Ray of hope - FSW - 1

[Rish92]

What I’ve learned the hard way about immigration is that, whether good or bad, nothing lasts forever.

With each passing year more and more people are looking to migrate to first world countries in hopes of better future for themselves, their family and subsequent generations.
This is making migration extremely competitive.

With constantly changing criteria and rules no one is really safe.
So it’s better to make use of the time we have, than wait for the sun to shine again, because chances are it might not.

Few years back I missed Australian invite becoz of 4 days delay in submitting EOI. The delay was mostly due to my laziness to submit an EOI. I learnt a very harsh lesson thru this. Now the competition is so fierce that I will never receive an invite.

So it’s good to hope for the best but always better to prepare for the worst.

 

[coolgal]

Many people in the country are entering the pool. Only if it was that easy to be a CEC candidate. There may be some, but majority are non-CEC. Ex- foreign student non-P.Eng people(currently working unskilled jobs) easily have a 440+ score.

Jobs are scarce here except for few fields.

 

[cansha]

The delay was mostly due to my laziness to submit an EOI. I learnt a very harsh lesson thru this.

Good that you are admitting your mistake and not blaming others or circumstances for missing out. Things happen. All the best with Canada.

 

[Raj R Kapoor]

Any chance of FSW draw this month? I am hearing from people only in April there might be FSW draw.

 

[ConstanceM]

Any chance of FSW draw this month? I am hearing from people only in April there might be FSW draw.

Impossible for this Month. Apr? Let’s pray...

 

[Mercedes2021]

Impossible for this Month. Apr? Let’s pray...

Impossible for this year. Even FSW applications from 2019 haven't been received COPR yet, and IRCC still has a bunch of applications for 2020, so there's no point to draw FSW at the moment

 

[Uncle Yayo]

Impossible for this year. Even FSW applications from 2019 haven't been received COPR yet, and IRCC still has a bunch of applications for 2020, so there's no point to draw FSW at the moment

There’s no point saying things like this here for God sake..if you check well, there are also fsw applications pending from 2018, and next year there will still be apps pending from 2019. Regardless that in no way means that draws will not happen. IRCC conducted 5k draws till the end of last year and those 2019 apps were still pending. I on the other hand applied in October 2020 and I got COPR early this month. You are not IRCC so please refrain from making such negative, speculative, and very unnecessary comments here.

 

[willapp]

There’s no point saying things like this here for God sake..if you check well, there are also fsw applications pending from 2018, and next year there will still be apps pending from 2019. Regardless that in no way means that draws will not happen. IRCC conducted 5k draws till the end of last year and those 2019 apps were still pending. I on the other hand applied in October 2020 and I got COPR early this month. You are not IRCC so please refrain from making such negative, speculative, and very unnecessary comments here.

You understand there is a difference in magnitude right. IRCC thought they could go back to normal processing when the general draws happened. Now they clearly focus on CEC only so the huge FSW backlog has not been cleared.
You're probably lucky your visa office is outside Canada. Most of the FSW applications stuck are processed in Canada.

 

[YaC]

I am more interested in the score distribution of the candidates in the pool.

The number of candidates with a score over 480 in March 2021 is now greater than the number of those with a score between 471~480 in Jan 2021.

Any estimation of the cut-off score when (if) the FSW draw is conducted?

 

[YaC]

Yesterday, Canada PM said the U.S.-Canada border restriction will not be lifted anytime soon. That is not good news.

 

[cansha]

I am not trying to belittle anyone, but Canada needs highly skilled labor.

But honestly you are. And if that is not the intention then don't make so many assumptions when you post.

Because you are competing with locals born and bred in Canada. I have seen people complaining about Canada that they are not able to get a job. It is tough but are you qualified enough?

So anyone born and bred is more competent and skillful then people coming from outside? Let's assume that is the case for a moment. Just go to Personal Finance Canada (PFC) sub on reddit and you will find plenty of examples of people who are born, raised and educated here and are struggling to find jobs, or struggling with finances because jobs don't pay enough. Do not assume the people struggling for jobs are only the immigrants. Immigrants leave because they don't have the support system here. They can't stay in parents basement.

It is bad that people are leaving Canada but who are these people? Folks whose job is in a highly saturated industry.

People from so called saturated industry have more chances of landing a job then someone in a niche sector.

Many don't do any research

That is rather presumptive

I get your sentiment that you want to espouse here. But struggle of people is real and we should not dismiss it as lack of research or willingness to upgrade their skills. It is much more complicated than that.

I have friends / acquaintances who found a job even before coming to Canada, some found jobs within 1-2 months and quite a few who struggled a lot. It happens and such is life. But encapsulating people's struggle in to a box and trying to project them as "their fault" while maintaining it wasn't done to "belittle anyone" is rather presumptuous and ignorant.

 

[Uncle Yayo]

It’s actually very shocking to see what this page has turned into. When we came on here last year all we had to deal with was the CEC trolls... lol. Anyway let me kuku leave the page for your people.

 

[BlindGoku]

It’s actually very shocking to see what this page has turned into. When we came on here last year all we had to deal with was the CEC trolls... lol. Anyway let me kuku leave the page for your people.

I know man, crazy times! Glad you got COPR, and we did suffer for many months of high uncertainty, but we got lucky with our ITAs coming late summer.
I'm stuck thanks to the Ottawa VO, at least eligibility has been Passed per GSCM notes..
Hoping for a successful vaccine rollout so travel restrictions are eased!

 

[willapp]

Yesterday, Canada PM said the U.S.-Canada border restriction will not be lifted anytime soon. That is not good news.

Nothing new really given the Canadian vaccination is slow. The essential travels are not affected much. No point of opening border for non-essential travels.

 

[nns14]

There’s no point saying things like this here for God sake..if you check well, there are also fsw applications pending from 2018, and next year there will still be apps pending from 2019. Regardless that in no way means that draws will not happen. IRCC conducted 5k draws till the end of last year and those 2019 apps were still pending. I on the other hand applied in October 2020 and I got COPR early this month. You are not IRCC so please refrain from making such negative, speculative, and very unnecessary comments here.

Well said. Totally agreed. I am 2019 AOR FSW-O and there have been many, many applicants from the same stream that not only got AOR after me but PPR and COPR.

The same can be said about CEC. There are thousands of pending applications from this stream yet IRCC invited 27K new applicants not long ago.

There is no point being negative and demotivating the good people on this thread because only God and IRCC (to certain extent) know what is ahead.

What I’ve learned the hard way about immigration is that, whether good or bad, nothing lasts forever.

With each passing year more and more people are looking to migrate to first world countries in hopes of better future for themselves, their family and subsequent generations.
This is making migration extremely competitive.

With constantly changing criteria and rules no one is really safe.
So it’s better to make use of the time we have, than wait for the sun to shine again, because chances are it might not.

Few years back I missed Australian invite becoz of 4 days delay in submitting EOI. The delay was mostly due to my laziness to submit an EOI. I learnt a very harsh lesson thru this. Now the competition is so fierce that I will never receive an invite.

So it’s good to hope for the best but always better to prepare for the worst.

Well said.

No doubt the number of candidates in the pool will keep increasing for many reasons including the popularity of Canada's PR, global stability issues like in Africa (Libya, Nigeria, etc...), Asia (Middle East, South East Asia, etc...), etc... One can only plan and act upon on what's in his/her power and that's increasing CRS points in anyway possible.

Now is a great time to learn French, enroll MSc. etc... rather than waiting and assuming the last year's CRS trend for FSW will be maintained. I started Canada process in 2018 and that time the cut off used to be 440s. It jumped to 450s-460s in 2019 and 470s in 2020. If history shows us anything, it is that the cut off CRS for 2021 will again increase to possible high 470 or lower-to-mid 480. Target your highest possible CRS and work extremely hard to getting it rather than relying on wishful thinking.

This is not to discourage but to be realistic in an extremely uncertain time.


As I said above, I already got AOR but last month I enrolled in a MSc. program which is starting this fall. I am also looking to register to a French course. There's no telling what IRCC will really do with the FSW-O backlog, but it never hurts to prepare for any eventuality. The least French and MSc. will do is boost my CV.