I have been reading up on the forums and at the outset, I must thank every one who have been helping out newbies like me. This forum is awesome!
One month back, when I first decided to apply for the Express Entry stream, I was thinking of using a consultant. After 4 weeks of reading up everything on this forum, every single doubt of mine has been solved. You guys truly rock.
I see so many posts about ONIP starting in November but the only source of this speculation has been from the ONIP site which I quote:-
Ontario anticipates that it will receive its 2017 nomination allocation from the federal government before the end of November 2016, and the province expects to be in a position to accept applications for some streams in six months.
Nowhere does it say that they will start ONIP for sure in November. Going by the pace in which things are generally moving around here, is it safe to assume that it will most probably start only by January 2017?
Reasons being:-
1 - As far as I know, they are still giving away nominations for December applicants.
2 - It probably doesn't make sense for them to start the new ONIP until they finish the backlog with the last of the February applicants and looking at the pace of it happening, they might not finish it all before December 2016.
3 - Considering that there is Christmas holidays in December, they might decide to come back in the new year to start the fresh ONIP?
4 - Since ONIP is very popular, they really have no reason to 'hurry' up with the 2017 nominations. Keeping in mind that there is 9 months worth applicants waiting, it can be assumed for sure that it will fill up pretty quick. So they could open it in January and it might be all over in a few weeks?
The reason I brought it up is because there are MANY MANY applicants like me here waiting for ONIP to start. No one knows for sure when it might start. But I think its reasonable to assume that they wont start before January for them to finish the previous backlog?
Thoughts?
One month back, when I first decided to apply for the Express Entry stream, I was thinking of using a consultant. After 4 weeks of reading up everything on this forum, every single doubt of mine has been solved. You guys truly rock.
I see so many posts about ONIP starting in November but the only source of this speculation has been from the ONIP site which I quote:-
Ontario anticipates that it will receive its 2017 nomination allocation from the federal government before the end of November 2016, and the province expects to be in a position to accept applications for some streams in six months.
Nowhere does it say that they will start ONIP for sure in November. Going by the pace in which things are generally moving around here, is it safe to assume that it will most probably start only by January 2017?
Reasons being:-
1 - As far as I know, they are still giving away nominations for December applicants.
2 - It probably doesn't make sense for them to start the new ONIP until they finish the backlog with the last of the February applicants and looking at the pace of it happening, they might not finish it all before December 2016.
3 - Considering that there is Christmas holidays in December, they might decide to come back in the new year to start the fresh ONIP?
4 - Since ONIP is very popular, they really have no reason to 'hurry' up with the 2017 nominations. Keeping in mind that there is 9 months worth applicants waiting, it can be assumed for sure that it will fill up pretty quick. So they could open it in January and it might be all over in a few weeks?
The reason I brought it up is because there are MANY MANY applicants like me here waiting for ONIP to start. No one knows for sure when it might start. But I think its reasonable to assume that they wont start before January for them to finish the previous backlog?
Thoughts?