400-453

[saad_8499]

highest score from IELTS, 2 or more postgraduate credentials, 2 years of foreign work experience.
If I was younger (turning 31 this April) and single I would be close to 450

Im getting 108 in IELTS, 110 in age and 120 in education, SKILL TRANSFERABILITY is where im getting less points 26 out of 100, how to improve this?

 

[blackbeast]

My wife has a bachelor's degree which will get me 8 additional points. i have all the transcripts in hand. Just have to file an application for ECA. what's your score?

my dilemma as well. i have to spend $250-300 to get eca.

question what's your wife's educational attainment?
what do you need to get the additional 8 pts?

3-4 years of bachelors?

 

[trricky]

456 received the WES on Friday 27
patiently waiting...

 

[andy000]

Im getting 108 in IELTS, 110 in age and 120 in education, SKILL TRANSFERABILITY is where im getting less points 26 out of 100, how to improve this?

if your short in foreign experience, I advice you to try get CLB9 or 10 in IELTS

 

[henryahmed]

422

 

[andy000]

422

Nice henry, ITA very soon ... make sure you have pretty much all papers ready.

 

[henryahmed]

Nice henry, ITA very soon ... make sure you have pretty much all papers ready.

thank you andy.. i am working on that... the only thing that is bothering me is the proof of funds... i opened an account a few months ago with the money i am supposed to have and also i have been making deposits regulary to that account... no problem there.. i have a lot more than the amount they ask for... the thing is that i have a mortgage on my apartment, that of course i am going to sell if a get PR. at the moment of receiving ITA i am going to have that big loan in my bank profile... i am afraid that they are going to think i am going to use the POF money to pay for the apartment loan...

 

[CanadianDreams419]

431 but it will go down by 5 points before the next draw. Worst birthday ever.
I was told today by an immigration lawyer that he is not expecting the scores to drop to low 400s before September. I guess we'll wait and see what happens.

I'm on 419.

I'm curious as to why your attorney thinks it's will only get to low 400s in September? Did they give more reasons for that view. The quantities are too low to meet the 100,000 target. If they want to get 100,000 people through the system they need more draws and to move much lower. Unless of course the majority of the people are between 425 and 453?

 

[jemdill]

400

 

[gmduncanidaho]

I'm on 419.

I'm curious as to why your attorney thinks it's will only get to low 400s in September? Did they give more reasons for that view. The quantities are too low to meet the 100,000 target. If they want to get 100,000 people through the system they need more draws and to move much lower. Unless of course the majority of the people are between 425 and 453?

Those were my thoughts exactly. It would be hard for CIC to reach their goals if they don't reduce the minimum scores for the ITAs, unless they are planning to mass invite in the last quarter of the year and increase the processing time (maybe even longer than their goal of 6 months) instead of reducing the minimum score for invitations.

One mistake most of us (including me) are doing here is that assuming that CIC will keep a steady number of invitations coming throughout the year, but in reality they can just reduce the number of ITAs issued for a while or do more stream specific (e.g. CEC only) draws until the number of people on the pool will get to a point where the top 20000 people (assuming that's the number at that point they will need to reach their goal) will be at a minimum of, say 300 points. This way they ensure that all the ITAs they issue will have gone to highly skilled people or people who already adjusted to Canadian life (CEC).

From what I understand his reasoning was similar to my description above; they will keep inviting people over 450 to get the people with the highest skills ("geniuses" in his words), the people the market needs currently (LMIA & PNP), and the people who already adjusted to Canadian life (CEC) until they get close to the end of the year. I guess then he is expecting CIC to start inviting many thousands of Vanilla-FSW applicants (No LMIA, No CEC, No PNP) per draw to reach their goals.

So again I believe he thinks that the number of ITAs issued won't be as high as they were in the previous draws in the Q2 and Q3 draws, but would be very high in Q4 draws. Or CIC will have CEC only draws pretty often (depending on the number of people on that stream)

This kind of makes sense to me especially since Canada would want to get the best of the best among the applicants and would want to keep the minimum score to be invited for PR at a maximum. At the last quarter of the year, the number of people between 300 and 600 would be very high, and a significant portion of the FSW goal would have been filled with LMIA holders already, increasing the minimum CRS needed for invitation. This would allow them to select only applicants scoring very high on the scale and not invite people below 300.

Naturally I'm making these numbers up but to provide a better context, what's important is that you understand my reasoning.

He even said he doesn't want me to pay him before I get an ITA because he wouldn't want to "steal my money". It was pretty discouraging. This is a very well known lawyer in Toronto too so I think he knows what he's talking about...

 

[CanadianDreams419]

My attorney said same thing about only getting paid after ITA but reckons we will be at 400pts by June. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone

 

[gmduncanidaho]

My attorney said same thing about only getting paid after ITA but reckons we will be at 400pts by June. Fingers crossed. Good luck everyone

Hope yours has a better estimate than mine

 

[Pippin]

thank you andy.. i am working on that... the only thing that is bothering me is the proof of funds... i opened an account a few months ago with the money i am supposed to have and also i have been making deposits regulary to that account... no problem there.. i have a lot more than the amount they ask for... the thing is that i have a mortgage on my apartment, that of course i am going to sell if a get PR. at the moment of receiving ITA i am going to have that big loan in my bank profile... i am afraid that they are going to think i am going to use the POF money to pay for the apartment loan...

You can write a letter explaining your intention to sell the apartment. You may want to show that you have a current value on it. You could also investigate current rental income that it could generate in the event you were unable to sell before you wish to come to Canada. Hopefully, the rental income would cover or come close to covering mortgage costs.

 

[saad_8499]

if your short in foreign experience, I advice you to try get CLB9 or 10 in IELTS

Ya i guess it would inc 40 points that way, but the problem is that we dont get ielts dates early i have to wait for 2 months i guess.

 

[henryahmed]

You can write a letter explaining your intention to sell the apartment. You may want to a how that you have a current value on it. You could also investigate current rental income that it could generate in the event you were unable to sell before you wish to come to Canada. Hopefully, the rental income would cover or come close to covering mortgage costs.

thank you pippin... that is exactly what i am going to do... thank you.