Well, I sent off the paperwork today to CIC.
Getting the PR through AINP is the plan B though. The plan A is still CEC, which is processing... but since I got the nomination I thought I used it as well. Better safe than sorry.
Good luck to everyone.
That wouldn't make much sense, since they're two different caps. We'd fall into the EE's cap if we applied under EE next year. But I don't think the people that applied under 2014 CEC will be carried over to 2015 EE's cap.