No I meant diploma not master's degree. And my CRS score could be below 400 by then
Gotcha, sorry. I believe you made a typo when you said your expected CRS would be "390-490" where you meant to type "390-400".
Once again, if you're planning to hit the Federal High Skilled CRS cutoffs (since there won't be CEC-specific draws) with a maximum expected CRS of 400, it's obviously not a strong plan. Assuming you don't have any other ways you could get into Canada,
if you get the two year diploma anyway, I can see three paths you could choose from. The thing is, is living in Canada that important to you? If the answer is yes, your options that I can think of would be:
A. Get on PGWP, they'll give you 2 years. While you're studying your degree, you must actively network and look for jobs because it may be challenging to find a job after graduating and you absolutely don't want to waste your time looking for jobs on your PGWP. You make sure to complete
at least 1 full year of paid work on PGWP while learning French in parallel. Improve your English scores as well, then recalculate your CRS with 1 year of Canadian experience + good English scores + good French scores. Calculate it on your own but this should get you in the 470-480 range.
B.
Carefully select a province where you think you can easily get a provincial nomination (PNP) through your diploma and/or PGWP work experience. Move to that province for school and/or work on your study visa and/or PGWP. No need for a CRS calculation here, PNP gets you +600 points and you're guaranteed to get an ITA. You just need to select the best province for your PNP hunt.
C. Get on PGWP and hope that Trudeau's mandate letter saves you as you'll be a "temporary worker" on your PGWP. Trudeau ordered in the mandate letter that additional pathways be created for international graduates and temporary workers.
As you can see, A is doable but takes a lot of work, C depends much on luck. B looks like a good way but I'm not sure if any PNP would apply to you and your NOC/degree so you'll need to do your own research on it. Choose whatever path, always make sure to increase your English scores as much as you can.
