My timeline:
Application Submitted 17th May 2017 under EE subcateogory
In process 20th May 2017
No requests for missing documents
Nomination received 29th June 2017
Some insights that are there if they help you:
1. Some investment statements I submitted were quarterly (31 March, 31 December), and these apparently were accepted in lieu of monthly statements. These institutions do not offer monthly statements.
2. For some other statements, the statements were older than May, such as through April 2017, and I had provided the two months prior to that.
3. Some documents were signed and dated in late February, as I prepared the application so that all I would need to do is hit send (and now pay the $300).
4. One employer reference letter included an attached job description on company stationery, signed by the Human Resources Officer. This may be beneficial to substantiate technical roles as they assess whether your job falls into the NOC category that you place on the application.
5. I attached, in addition to transcripts, the ECA I received from the University of Toronto. This will show unequivocally that the education is equivalent to that in Canada. This may have saved them time as they did not have to do their own assessment on transcripts alone. I found that the University of Toronto had the most straightforward process because they did not require any narrative from the educational institutions, simply the transcripts themselves. I recall that other providers of this service required a write up by the schools, which would be quite onerous to obtain.
6. My highest degree is in another discipline than that in which I work, so it is the degree that is critical to substantiate the points on their grid, and likely it is not required that it be in the field in which you are working.
7. I have had work experience in Ontario, and this did not seem to give them the impression that my intent to land in Saskatchewan was not genuine. In their neighbor to the east, Manitoba, there are penalties on their assessment grid for having worked in another province.
8. Some documents that I submitted were missing when I went to check the completed application after I submitted it, while others were there. In particular, all of my employment verification documents and the ECA were missing.