HB.Agenda2 said:
makes no sense at all if you look at it realistically... also 700 is not a good score by any means...
think of it this way... if your score is 755... which was actually the cut off for the last draw... your A+B+C is only a mere 155... think how poor must be the age, skill, education and language factors... just because this person has been nominated by a province or holds an LMIA which too he probably purchased from one of the hundreds of immigration consultants in Canada... he/she gets to hop the bus and the rest just keep waiting.... is this the kind of candidates CIC wants?/Canada needs? is this what we call economic immigration?
on the other hand i'm certain that the EE pool is flooded with 450+ candidates who are of the right age, right language skills, right skill sets and well educated and proper experience... these are the candidates who with an LMIA would have scored 950 - 1100+ points and would be the creme de la creme of the pool... unfortunately due to the lack of an LMIA or a PNP... all these candidates are regarded as unskilled/unworthy aspirants...
what a shame! what a poorly implemented system...
This is just an opinion.. anybody can disagree with me and share his/her own views.
Though I am not feeling any happy about this to share with you, but anyways we need to accept this harsh reality.
pls check this post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/29/non-permanent-residents-canada-cibc-report_n_7173778.html
This is the purpose for which EE has been created..
There are presently more than 700,000 non-residents in Canada who are either on study visa (37.9%), work permit (49%) or on humanitarian/refugee ground (12.2%). This data can be checked from below link:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2894934/original.jpg
Now, if we see this data, it becomes very clear the way EE has been designed. It will become advantageous for all these Non -PR canadians to get the extra 600 points under CEC/LMIA/PNP for whatever route they take.
And this might not be the case for foreigners who are applying under EE without LMIA/PNP/CEC.
Tt is obvious that one can get LMIA, but everyone knows how much difficult it is for a foreigner to get an LMIA while outland CANADA, while any non-PR canadian is more accessible to such resources to get LMIA.
Same holds true for PNP, if you closely check the criterias of PNP, mostly all of them have placed a heavy emphasis on someone having valid job offer/relative/previous study in the province... which again is not the case for any foreigner EE applicant applying outland Canada.
And CEC is definitely not the cup of tea for foreigners for sure.
Moreover, I have seen posts of few of non-PR EE applicant who said that they don't even bother to make ECA and let go away the points for education, simply because they make the entry with higher CRS due to LMIA / CEC / PNP.
In a nutshell, if we look at the EE draws and the outcomes of these draws even to be held in future, at least it seems that for the year 2015, there will be very less opportunities for foreigners to get ITAs at all.
And I am saying this is because of additional 600 points awarded to EE applicant having LMIA/PNP. I am sure most of the foreigner EE applicant will be losing the entire 600 points here, and so they will be solely relying on their Human Core Capital Points, while competing with the Non-PR Canadians who are scoring higher with the benefit of additional 600 points for either LMIA / PNP.