Thanks for this, but I'm still a little confused. I have two profiles, one which expired on 25th June 2017 and a new one I created on the 30th June 2017. Over the weekend just past, a UCI code appeared on my old expired profile, but not for my new profile - it's blank. I don't have a NOI or an ITA and my score is currently 379 with a NOC of 0213.
I got an email from CIC over the past weekend stating they had made an update and with the ICT focus by Ontario I had hoped it was a NOI, but sadly no, just the UCI being added to my old expired profile.
So I just wanted to say that you can get a UCI even if you are not past the initial stages of the PR application.