Express Entry
Express Entry
A pool, not a queue. IRCC uses it to manage three economic permanent residence programs and to invite ranked profiles.
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Seeded from pages already on this site: glossary, programs, ATIP, Day 31, GCMS, P1/P2, NOC, and work-permit guides. No crawler and no case-law dump.
Express Entry
Express Entry
Comprehensive Ranking System
The points system that ranks Express Entry profiles. It is not the Federal Skilled Worker 67-point grid.
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Invitation to Apply
IRCC invited a ranked profile to file the eAPR. Sixty days from that invitation.
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electronic Application for Permanent Residence
The completeness PDI requires a complete eAPR, the fees, and the supporting documents within 60 days of the ITA. Submitting it is not the acknowledgement of receipt.
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Acknowledgement of Receipt
The PR file passed completeness and is in the system. Not an approval.
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R10 completeness
An incomplete Express Entry application is rejected under R10 and the fees are refunded. The R10-passed letter is the acknowledgement of receipt.
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Federal Skilled Worker Program
One of the three Express Entry programs. Skilled work, language, education, and a 67-point grid that is not CRS.
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Canadian Experience Class
One of the three Express Entry programs. Eligible skilled Canadian work in the last three years, then the pool.
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Category-based selection
A selection layer inside the Express Entry pool. Not a fourth program people apply to.
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Educational credential assessment
A report from a designated organization that a completed foreign credential equals a completed Canadian credential.
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NOC assessment
Duties first, lead statement second. The title on an offer letter does not pick the unit group.
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Permanent residence
Immigration medical examination
The panel-physician exam IRCC uses for medical admissibility.
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PR Confirmation Portal (P1 and P2)
P1 and P2 are unofficial names for the two emails that start in-Canada confirmation. Neither email makes you a permanent resident.
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Provincial nominees
A province or territory nominates. IRCC still decides permanent residence. A nomination is not a visa.
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Records
ATIP
Two statutes, not a third law. Access to Information Act or Privacy Act. Then read the notes or request the file.
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GCMS notes
The system officers use. A notes request is a request for the records in that system, not a public portal.
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Day 31
A local-browser docket for a late Access Act request. It is not IRCC and it is not Unredacted. You still send the complaint.
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IRCC web form
The official online contact channel. Use it to update a file or send a document they asked for when the portal will not take it.
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Work
Bridging open work permit
An open work permit that can keep you working while a qualifying PR file is already in process.
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Post-graduation work permit
An open work permit for graduates of eligible designated learning institutions.
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Maintained status
On a work-permit extension filed before expiry, IRCC says you keep working under the same conditions while you stay in Canada and they decide.
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Baseless work permit extension
Practitioner shorthand, not an IRCC program. Some premature filings are delay tactics. Others respond to a real timing gap.
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Decisions
Procedural fairness letter
IRCC has a concern that could refuse the file. You get a chance to answer first.
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Misrepresentation
An admissibility finding under IRPA s. 40, not a ranking problem. The existing GCMS guide treats even a tentative note as a get-help file.
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