Using 60 days ITA time to increase work experience?

[Bruce919]

IRCC gives you a grace period of 60 days to accept or decline an invitation to apply, and the CRS score is recalcuated at the time of eAPR, so can this be leveraged to catch up any missing work experience?

For instance, in my case, I have a start date of September 15, 2023. I will complete 2 years of work experience on September 15, 2025. However, I took time off for 20 days last August, unpaid as I did not have vacation days left. So my 2 years of work experience will be on October 5, 2025.

My CRS score is 470. If my CRS score gets bumped up to 483 on september 15, 2025 and I receive an ITA on September 16, 2025, then the deadline to submit application is November 15th 2025. And since CRS is recalculated at the time of eAPR, it means that if I submit application after October 5, 2025, it should be fine as my CRS score then should be 483?

 

[Naturgrl]

IRCC gives you a grace period of 60 days to accept or decline an invitation to apply, and the CRS score is recalcuated at the time of eAPR, so can this be leveraged to catch up any missing work experience?

For instance, in my case, I have a start date of September 15, 2023. I will complete 2 years of work experience on September 15, 2025. However, I took time off for 20 days last August, unpaid as I did not have vacation days left. So my 2 years of work experience will be on October 5, 2025.

My CRS score is 470. If my CRS score gets bumped up to 483 on september 15, 2025 and I receive an ITA on September 16, 2025, then the deadline to submit application is November 15th 2025. And since CRS is recalculated at the time of eAPR, it means that if I submit application after October 5, 2025, it should be fine as my CRS score then should be 483?

Yes, if scores are that low by October or you are in a category draw.

 

[Bruce919]

Yes, if scores are that low by October or you are in a category draw.

Thanks for your reply! Just wanted to clarify as I realized I missed something important: The ITA I got was due to my score increase, i.e the cut off was 482 for example.

Isn't that false representation somehow? Because technically at the time of the ITA (september 16, 2025), I did not have 2 years of work experience since I had unpaid vacation days accumulated, even though I got my ITA based on that 2 years of work experience, but then accumulated the 2 years of work experience through the grace period.

Do I risk refusal?

 

[Naturgrl]

Thanks for your reply! Just wanted to clarify as I realized I missed something important: The ITA I got was due to my score increase, i.e the cut off was 482 for example.

Isn't that false representation somehow? Because technically at the time of the ITA (september 16, 2025), I did not have 2 years of work experience since I had unpaid vacation days accumulated, even though I got my ITA based on that 2 years of work experience, but then accumulated the 2 years of work experience through the grace period.

Do I risk refusal?

When did you get ITA?

 

[Bruce919]

When did you get ITA?

Thanks for your reply. ITA was received on September 16, 2025 with CRS cutoff at 482.

Just to clarify, in my case what I'm putting forward:

Start Date: September 15, 2023.
Current CRS Score: 470.

2 years of work experience should be on September 15, 2025. CRS score bumps up to 483 on September 15, 2025.

However, I took 20 days unpaid off, so 2 years of work experience will actually be on October 5, 2025.

Lets say: ITA received on September 16, 2025 with cut off at 482.

Now, I don't have 2 years accumulated yet, so using the ITA 60 days grace period, I'll submit my eAPR on October 6, 2025.

Is this problematic? At the time of ITA I did not actually have 2 years of work experience due to my unpaid time, but accumulated it by the time the eAPR was submitted.