Hi zainab,
I'm not entirely sure what your question is but the fact that your consultant told you that you are eligible without explaining to you WHY you are eligible, leaving you doubtful about your eligibility (if I'm understanding your post correctly), now has me doubting your consultant.
On this forum, we always advise people not to rely on consultants (even if you use one, take your case into your own hands and take responsibility for it since, if the consultant screws up (and many do), IRCC will hold you accountable for the mistake). Additionally, there are some unscrupulous consultants who will tell you that you are eligible, even if you're not, just so you can give them money, only to end up having your application rejected in the end, or never starting your application to begin with.,
The best thing for you to do is to go to
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)'s website and start reading up about Express Entry and, more importantly, to ascertain your own eligibility (independent of your consultant).
Please see some useful information below to help you do this:
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Express Entry is an umbrella programme under which three of Canada's PR programmes fall -
the Federal Skilled Workers (FSW), Canadian Experience Class (CEC), and Federal Skilled Trades (FST) programmes. EE allows eligible applicants to apply for consideration of PR, through an entirely electronic process.
Unless you have Canadian work experience, you would most likely be trying to apply under the FSW programme.
If you're eligible, you need to calculate your projected
Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) Score. The CRS Score is what IRCC uses to determine which applicants will get an
Invitation to Apply (ITA) for permanent residency.
The general consensus is that, at least right now, you need a CRS score of at least 435 to have a chance at getting an ITA; but please note that this could change in the future as the 'cut-off' CRS Score in Draws fluctuates.
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If you are eligible under FSW or CEC, AND if your projected CRS Score is high enough to give you a strong likelihood of receiving an ITA, then this is when you should submit an EE profile. Based on what you've written, it seems like you are already in the process of submitting an EE profile (I assume that's why you've applied to IQAS for an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA). Let's hope you actually are eligible and haven't applied and spent the money in vain.
If you ARE eligible, read up further on the entire application process and don't rely on your consultant. If you have any questions or need any clarification about anything you've read, or at any point during the process, use the people on this forum as a resource. We're all here to help each other.
