Dear Vensak,vensak said:I do understand that. I am undergoing the same now. I had to wait 8 month for ICAS ECA (unable to activate my EE) and suddenly things are moving just within days. So I am just curious what mistakes will I do.
Best luck to all.
After a small research of "procedure easiness" and "speed", I decided to do the ECA thing with WES and it came back in a month or so. No problems really, except the 75 CAD fee to send the ECA copy to OINP, which I've found very expensive. They're just sending e-copies/e-mails or access codes to OINP that's all. I doubt if they actually send a physical copy of the ECA to them.
But you were right, I also had to impatiently wait for a while to get all things together (TEF, IELTS, ECA) in order to open up the EE Profile. Waited like 2 months from decision to take the exams until clicking My CIC to fill out the EE form. But after that things went really fast except for my stupidnesses.
So best of luck to you and please double/triple check your package contents and even do it with a printed checklist page, document by document...
By the way, FYI, I choose French as first language and "All Territories" while doing the EE thing. The PT NOI came the same evening, 3 hrs after