Hi friends,
I have applied for NB Dubai session on September 20th 2018, and my ielts will get expired on May 24th 2019 . I gave ielts score details while I was filling online application. What if i get invitation ITA few months before? Is my ielts score would be still valid ? I heard from my friend that ielts score should be valid until entire process complets . do I need to retake ielts? Can anyone suggest me
Let me try to answer your question. Please note that this is my own opinion from my research. Usually, the process of PNP may take up to a year. 3-6 months to get PNP nomination and another 6 months to conclude the Express Entry process.
Starting with the later, even if your ielts is valid for one day before you secure the EE-ITA then the ielts will be good for the rest of the process. For example, your ielts is expected to expire May 24th 2019, and you secure EE-ITA on May 18th 2019, you will be good.
Now back to the PNP, you also need your ielts to be valid to submit your EOI and I expect that the same rule will apply. By this, I mean if you submit your News Brunswick EOI on May 1st 2019, they may expect that your ielts is still valid as at the time they review your application. But, the whole idea is that once you are able to secure the PNP nomination which automatically gives you 600 points, you should be able to write another ielts and at this stage and it doesn't have to be super good. Remember you already have 600 points in your pocket.
Let me put all this in perspective, my ielts expires June 2019 and I am also hoping to get the invite to the information session. All things being equal, the opportunity comes up say in October 2018 for folks who have attended Information Session to submit EOI. We expect that by January or at most March 2019 we should secure the PNP nomination. Within the next 2 weeks, one should secure the EE-ITA and boom...that’s it.....no need to rewrite ielts.
I hope my little illustration above gives you some peace of mind. Once again, this is just my own opinion, others can comment.