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March 23rd Draw - 470 CRS - 1014 ITA

CanadianDream2015EE

Full Member
Aug 5, 2015
30
2
middle east
Category........
NOC Code......
1112
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system – March 23, 2016

The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, pursuant to section 10.3 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, gives the annexed Ministerial Instructions Respecting Invitations to Apply for Permanent Residence under the Express Entry System (March 23, 2016).

Ottawa, March 23, 2016

JOHN MCCALLUM
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

MINISTERIAL INSTRUCTIONS RESPECTING INVITATIONS TO APPLY FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE UNDER THE EXPRESS ENTRY SYSTEM (MARCH 23, 2016)

Determination — number of invitations

1. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 10.2(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the number of invitations that may be issued during the period beginning on March 23, 2016 and ending on March 24, 2016 is 1,014.

Required rank

(2) Foreign nationals who, on March 23, 2016 at 12:20:45 UTC, have been assigned a total of 470 points or more under the Comprehensive Ranking System that is set out in the Ministerial Instructions Respecting the Express Entry System, as published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on December 1, 2014 and as amended from time to time, occupy the rank required to be invited to make an application for permanent residence.
 

viveksegu

Star Member
Aug 31, 2015
90
4
124
Bangalore
Category........
NOC Code......
2171
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
19-March-2016
AOR Received.
01-February-2017
Med's Done....
02-March-2017
I am at 467... Damn!!!!
 

tejasmhaskar

Hero Member
Nov 15, 2015
391
71
NOC Code......
1121
AOR Received.
12-10-2018
Hang in there guys. It will drop eventually and if the wait is killing, then you can opt for OINP too !
 

manidhatt

Champion Member
May 30, 2013
1,257
592
Ontario
NOC Code......
2281
App. Filed.......
Feb 03
Doc's Request.
Feb 26 - Submitted March 03
AOR Received.
Feb 03
Med's Done....
Feb 12
Passport Req..
Aug 03
Hate to say but there might be few more draws with around 1000-1100 ITAs. I hope everyone gets ITA before the situation goes against them. Hopefully, Immigration minister makes changes in EE to help international students too. It breaks your heart if your work permit runs out and you have to return. :-\
 

One_Topsy

Champion Member
Sep 12, 2015
2,177
133
Canada
Category........
Visa Office......
Accra
NOC Code......
2281
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Nomination.....
30-11-2015
Ooops. It seems CIC has decided to reduce the number of invitations per round!!!
 

Froze950

Star Member
Oct 10, 2014
164
3
I heard they were going to award some "extra" point for CEC candidates. I think I read it yesterday.... About time they should award them ..because now the guys at 450-465 started to worry !
 

KittYLoveCaD

Star Member
Mar 19, 2016
58
2
Lived in SK
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CanadianDream2015EE said:
Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system – March 23, 2016

The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, pursuant to section 10.3 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, gives the annexed Ministerial Instructions Respecting Invitations to Apply for Permanent Residence under the Express Entry System (March 23, 2016).

Ottawa, March 23, 2016

JOHN MCCALLUM
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

MINISTERIAL INSTRUCTIONS RESPECTING INVITATIONS TO APPLY FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE UNDER THE EXPRESS ENTRY SYSTEM (MARCH 23, 2016)

Determination — number of invitations

1. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 10.2(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the number of invitations that may be issued during the period beginning on March 23, 2016 and ending on March 24, 2016 is 1,014.

Required rank

(2) Foreign nationals who, on March 23, 2016 at 12:20:45 UTC, have been assigned a total of 470 points or more under the Comprehensive Ranking System that is set out in the Ministerial Instructions Respecting the Express Entry System, as published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on December 1, 2014 and as amended from time to time, occupy the rank required to be invited to make an application for permanent residence.

Not sure why ITA reduced while there are plans to take more economic immigrants in 2016... Any thoughts?
 

Aragorn165

Champion Member
Sep 18, 2015
1,455
106
Category........
Visa Office......
NDVO
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
04-03-2016
Nomination.....
03-11-2015
AOR Received.
04-03-2016
Passport Req..
02-09-2016
Looks like I was right with my predictions about ITAs this month. Going forward, I expect this trend to continue until at least June.

KittYLoveCaD said:
Not sure why ITA reduced while there are plans to take more economic immigrants in 2016... Any thoughts?
They have a backlog of economic Express Entry immigrants from 2015, who are expected to make up the bulk of their economic immigrant intake this year. Also, they are not planning to take in more economic immigrants this year, but a lesser amount than last year.

Froze950 said:
I heard they were going to award some "extra" point for CEC candidates. I think I read it yesterday.... About time they should award them ..because now the guys at 450-465 started to worry !
Such a move would be fundamentally antithetical to how EE is structured, unless they just increase points awarded for Canadian experience.

viveksegu said:
I am at 467... Damn!!!!
I do expect the cutoff to drop to 467 at least once, some time around mid April
 

pavel123

Full Member
Mar 15, 2016
37
0
Haven't they reduced number of express entry immigrants in their projections for 2016 by about 20%?

Since this plan may be retroactive, right now they reduced ITA by more than 20% for a while until they balance out greater ITA # from Jan & Feb.

What do you think?
 

av

Hero Member
Jan 21, 2015
275
8
someone told that CIC is clearing backlog of 2014 candidates. One of my friend got his medical request for his application made in Sep 2014. Hope score will drop after backlog cleared.