Hi everyone.
My name is Jade Calver.
I own and operate Calver and Associates Canadian Immigration Services.
Today, we’re going to talk about Express Entry, in particular, why your profile was
found to be ineligible.
So, there are a few reasons why your profile for Express Entry could be ineligible.
A lot of times, people don’t actually check the eligibility requirements of the three
programs.
So, that is the Federal Skilled Worker Program, the Canadian Experience Class, or the Federal
Skilled Trades Class.
It’s important to review the eligibility requirements of each of those programs before
submitting your profile to ensure that your profile is not found ineligible.
Another thing that I find that clients don’t actually look at – or understand because
it’s complicated – is that there’s a point system both for Express Entry (that
is the comprehensive ranking system) but there’s also a point system for the Federal Skilled
Worker Program.
So, the Federal Skilled Worker Program is based out of 100 points.
The pass score is 67 out of 100 points.
So, some people – even though they appear to be eligible for the Federal Skilled Worker
Program – they’re not actually aware that there is another point system under the Federal
Skilled Worker Program and they haven’t done the points calculation to ensure that
they’re eligible first for that program before submitting their application.
Another thing is language requirements, or ECA qualifications.
So, that’s Educational Credential Assessments.
So, there are language requirements for each program.
Um, for example, for the Federal Skilled Worker Program, if you’re taking the IELTS, you
need to score at least 6 in every band of the IELTS in order to be eligible.
For the Canadian Experience Class, if you declare certain occupation codes, then you
actually have to score a little bit higher.
Um in terms of the Federal Skilled Trades Class, there’s a slightly lower language
requirement, but you still do have to meet those when applying.
Uh, in terms of the Educational Credential Assessments, um a lot of the time, people
don’t include those because they don’t think that they need the points and then they
don’t meet the points of the Federal Skilled Worker Program – so that 67 that I talked
about earlier.
Um, or they just don’t meet the points requirements for the other two programs.
So, there’s also NOC requirements, or National Occupation Classification requirements.
So, when you submit an Express Entry profile, there’s an occupation code attributed to
your work experience.
A lot of people don’t understand the classification system.
So, in Canada, they differentiate between low-skilled work, which are occupation codes
C and D. And then there’s high-skilled work.
So those are occupation codes 0 (which are managerial positions), and then A and B – so
those are considered skilled work professions.
So, your work experience needs to be classified as either level 0, A, or B in order to eligible
for any of those three programs.
And so it’s really important that when you’re first entering your work experience into your
profile that you ensure that you have that skilled work experience in order to be eligible
for the program.
Another thing that I would like to touch on is settlement funds, especially with the Federal
Skilled Worker Program.
A lot of people will say that they have $5000 or $1000 or whatever in their profile.
Its’ really important to check the settlement fund requirement before submitting your profile.
It’s also important to note that this depends on the size of your family.
So, one person needs to show about $13,000 Canadian and then it goes up from there depending
on how many people are in your family.
Another thing is simply a matter of time.
So, sometimes your profile will come back as ineligible or it just won’t register.
And people will call me in a panic but they just haven’t waited for 48 hours.
Sometimes the system takes a little bit longer to calculate your score and it’s just important
that you just wait for a couple of days to make sure that it registered – especially
if you haven’t received a notification saying that your profile – that you were given
a score or that your profile was ineligible.
If all of those points have been addressed by you and your answer is still that you’re
coming up as ineligible, a lot of times, I just say delete that profile and just create
another GC key account.
The government isn’t perfect when it comes to its technology and sometimes, it’s just
a technical glitch and sometimes submitting another application can actually work.
There’s also three last things that I try if you’ve tried everything that I’ve talked
about today.
So, one of those things is your IELTS results, or your CELPIP results.
So, are your language results less than two years old?
In order to be able to submit them and be – those – you have to have your language
results accounted for – they need to have been taken in the last two years.
Also, your ECA reports, so your Educational Credential Assessments, those have to be done
within the last five years.
So, sometimes, if people did it a long time ago and they were coming to Canada as a student,
for example, it’s been more than 5 years since they did their educational reports,
so they actually have to have them redone.
And then, lastly, under the Federal Skilled Worker Program, you also need to have one
year of continuous work in the same occupation and that needs to be listed as your primary
occupation.
So, for example, if you have one year as an administrative assistant, then your primary
occupation needs to also be one year as an administrative assistant and vice versa.
So, you need to show that you have one year of work experience in your primary occupation.
I also find that a lot of people, it’s just a matter of human error as well.
A lot of the times, you know, a simple matter of saying that your education was all based
on language training in the education section of the profile, a lot of times it will mean
that it looks like you didn’t actually complete any education and so your profile will come
back as ineligible.
So, often a review from our offices will help fix these errors.
And a lot of our clients who will come back with ineligible profiles actually are eligible,
it’s just a matter of addressing some of these errors in their profile.
If you have any questions about this type of application and if your profile has come
back as ineligible, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
You can contact us at calverimmigrationservices.com