doubleym said:
If you were dealing with an officer who just told you you were ineligible, after having previously told you you were eligible, then you could ask him exactly why are you suddenly ineligible.
You must have never had to appear in person for a visa interview. I have and I do remember what it was like: I was talking to the officer through a double-pane glass, and on each side of me there were security guards, just standing there, ready to grab me by my elbows and escort me outside as soon as the officer said I'm ineligible. The officer's decision was FINAL. There was no arguing with her (which is what applicants really want to do, rather than just ask for reasons as to why they're found ineligible).
Fortunately for the interview I just described I was approved so the guards didn't touch me but I saw what happened to the rejected applicants. Soon as they started asking 'Why?' they got hauled outside.
doubleym said:
You can't do that with the online system, the only way for these people is to try different responses to work out what exactly is wrong, they aren't exactly submitting these profiles with inaccurate information, at least I'd hope they aren't!
This was how someone worked out that even though the CEC stream is stated as accepting non-continuous experience, the CRS calculator doesn't and is reporting people as ineligible when technically they should be, judging by all of the published information available from CIC.
You are obviously right about people who submit 'tweaked' profiles that aren'y 100% truthful, I do hope these people aren't doing that...
I think you're still missing my point, and that is that people won't take No for an answer, even if it's arrived at through correct information, so the instinct is to look for ways to get a positive outcome. Needless to say, the "Ineligible" outcome could be correct but that doesn't make applicants accept it.
As well, just because you got a positive response doesn't mean you never made an error on your answers. I think we both know though that nobody ever looks for errors after getting a positive response. The goal is not to be truthful. It's to get what they want.