While I hope IRCC will allow to fix small mistakes or oversights... I don't believe the excuse that just because they just revealed the requirements 24 hours before the opening is a valid one.
It's our application and its up to us to make sure its as complete and perfect as we can.
For sure, IRCC is to blame giving just 24 hours to read the guide, and also them making changes while people were actually applying. That's a huge no no... Heck... I believe they are still adding notes to the guide as of today.
But also people that get their FOMO up to the roof and don't even bother to read the guide and just wing it... I don't know can they send an inmigration application like that and then ask for IRCC to give them a chance to correct basic stuff.
In a perfect world were people wouldn't have rushed and act crazy because of the cap they would've read carefully and prepare their application.
But we are just human.
I personally did not apply on the first batch... I think I was around the 30k mark... I took my time to read and check how the process was unfolding. It was a given that the IRCC didn't have everything in order. So.. yeah.. I risked it to loose a spot... but I did not get anxious and scramble for my application.
Reading a bunch of posts they say this is a one life opportunity.. which I agree, but I don't think this is it for recent graduate students. I mean... come one you still have your whole PGWP in full to get the experience and to apply in other programs.
Now for the essential workers I do believe its an amazing program... and as you see they are adding slowly but surely without FOMO.
I'm not here to criticize nobody. Every person reality is different. But I do believe we have to be true with ourselves and if they just reject the application for "tiny" errors... well... we just have to own it and be better for the next time (Hopefully IRCC will also be better next time)