Hi Everyone
I got a rejection from CIC yesterday. My AOR date was October 14th, so I was right around the 150 day mark. The rejection happened due to a recalculated drop in CRS score. When I created my EE profile in May of 2015, I put in all of my job experience (though I only claimed two years of job experience in one code) and had estimated the number of hours ( I put in 30 on average) I put in at my second job (a different occupation code, which I had held for less that a year). It was going to be under a year anyway, so I didn't think it mattered as far as CRS score, etc. I was just trying to be thorough. My CRS score was calculated to be 456. I initially got an ITA in July, but declined because of the time it took to receive the FBI ( I lie in the US) criminal background check. I then (in late August) got a ghost email from CIC and logged in to realize that my CRS score had been automatically recalculated to (I believe, can't quite remember) 481. I didn't think anything of it at the time- I just assumed that CIC had changed something. I then got another ITA on September 8th, when the cutoff was 463 points.
I got this listed as the notification from the case officer as the reasoning for refusal:
In your invitation letter, you were attributed 50 points for Skill Transferability-Foreign Work Experience based on the information you provided to us in your Express Entry Profile. However,the hours that you claimed to have worked do not match the hours indicated in your reference letters. You claimed to have worked 30 hours per week at the University of XXXX in NOC XXX from 2014/08 to application lock-in date. However, the reference letter that you provided indicates 20 hours per week. In addition, you claimed to have worked 30 hours per week at XXXXX in NOC XXXX from 2011/08 to 2013/03, while your reference letter indicates 26 hours per week. When your foreign work experience is recalculated, you are no longer attributed points for 3 years or more of foreign work experience. As a result, your CRS score has dropped below the pass mark for your round of invitations.
I hadn't even realized it, but they had recalculated my CRS score automatically when I passed the one year mark at the University, and since 30 hours counts as full time in Canada, I was credited another year, giving me three years of experience instead of two. This is what had upped my CRS score. Since my CRS score is in actuality 456, I didn't make the 463 cutoff for my round of invitations.
It's quite frustrating that this error wasn't caught by myself or the immigration personnel sooner (I looked back, and it looks as though I could have replied several times with a score of 456 since then). Ugh. Ironically, if I don't get an invitation in the next 7 weeks, the same thing will happen. I will have passed 3+ years (hours-wise) at my primary NOC code then.
This leads to my main questions. For those who have successfully created a new EE profile and gotten a new ITA, did you just resubmit most of your old paperwork, or did you get updated copies of everything? I am going to get updated copies of the one job that I have continued to work since then, as well as an updated copy of the letter from my bank. I will probably (unless there is a miracle and I get and ITA before March 23) have to get new medicals too, since they want those to have at least 6 months before they expire and I had my originals done on September 23. Is there an expiration date for the FBI criminal check? Will I have to get a new one of those as well? What about letters from the other jobs? One I left in 2013, and one I left last November. They are both dated from last September.
Thanks everyone for your help!
I got a rejection from CIC yesterday. My AOR date was October 14th, so I was right around the 150 day mark. The rejection happened due to a recalculated drop in CRS score. When I created my EE profile in May of 2015, I put in all of my job experience (though I only claimed two years of job experience in one code) and had estimated the number of hours ( I put in 30 on average) I put in at my second job (a different occupation code, which I had held for less that a year). It was going to be under a year anyway, so I didn't think it mattered as far as CRS score, etc. I was just trying to be thorough. My CRS score was calculated to be 456. I initially got an ITA in July, but declined because of the time it took to receive the FBI ( I lie in the US) criminal background check. I then (in late August) got a ghost email from CIC and logged in to realize that my CRS score had been automatically recalculated to (I believe, can't quite remember) 481. I didn't think anything of it at the time- I just assumed that CIC had changed something. I then got another ITA on September 8th, when the cutoff was 463 points.
I got this listed as the notification from the case officer as the reasoning for refusal:
In your invitation letter, you were attributed 50 points for Skill Transferability-Foreign Work Experience based on the information you provided to us in your Express Entry Profile. However,the hours that you claimed to have worked do not match the hours indicated in your reference letters. You claimed to have worked 30 hours per week at the University of XXXX in NOC XXX from 2014/08 to application lock-in date. However, the reference letter that you provided indicates 20 hours per week. In addition, you claimed to have worked 30 hours per week at XXXXX in NOC XXXX from 2011/08 to 2013/03, while your reference letter indicates 26 hours per week. When your foreign work experience is recalculated, you are no longer attributed points for 3 years or more of foreign work experience. As a result, your CRS score has dropped below the pass mark for your round of invitations.
I hadn't even realized it, but they had recalculated my CRS score automatically when I passed the one year mark at the University, and since 30 hours counts as full time in Canada, I was credited another year, giving me three years of experience instead of two. This is what had upped my CRS score. Since my CRS score is in actuality 456, I didn't make the 463 cutoff for my round of invitations.
It's quite frustrating that this error wasn't caught by myself or the immigration personnel sooner (I looked back, and it looks as though I could have replied several times with a score of 456 since then). Ugh. Ironically, if I don't get an invitation in the next 7 weeks, the same thing will happen. I will have passed 3+ years (hours-wise) at my primary NOC code then.
This leads to my main questions. For those who have successfully created a new EE profile and gotten a new ITA, did you just resubmit most of your old paperwork, or did you get updated copies of everything? I am going to get updated copies of the one job that I have continued to work since then, as well as an updated copy of the letter from my bank. I will probably (unless there is a miracle and I get and ITA before March 23) have to get new medicals too, since they want those to have at least 6 months before they expire and I had my originals done on September 23. Is there an expiration date for the FBI criminal check? Will I have to get a new one of those as well? What about letters from the other jobs? One I left in 2013, and one I left last November. They are both dated from last September.
Thanks everyone for your help!
