Regarding ITAs topic, I agree that they are targetting more than 84,000 ITAs for 2018.We keep coming back to this same thing again and again. Why you guys make it so complicated? We cant know for sure what is the average no of admission per successful applicant? So just think it this way. The target last year also were 71000+ and they issued 84000 ITAs to fill up the target. So this accompanying spouse, dependant and all that equation were present last year as well. This year they are targetting even more. So why all of a sudden you guys start talking about admission and all that crap? I really dont underdstand.
Another thing, every week there are 300-400 PNP nominated profile in the express entry. As far as I remember PNP admission target is different. If they are eating up quota from original FSW then I am sure those ITAs will be excluded from the total target.
In my opinion, considering that 16 draws are remaining (and hopefully we may see bigger quotas... hopefully soon 4,000), around 88,000 ITAs could be issued during 2018 (specifically under FSW program). Last year they issued 84,685 ITAs (and the target was lower).
So... there is hope for us with CRS lower than 435.