Ravi’s strategy
What Ravi’s sample assessment suggests doing first, and what could improve the picture. Drawn from the assessment alone, with no promise of a result.
Meeting the Canadian Experience Class minimums only puts Ravi’s profile in the Express Entry pool. Entering the pool doesn’t guarantee an invitation: candidates are ranked by their CRS score and invited in rounds. Official source
What to do first
Each step comes from this sample assessment. It shows what to work on and what to discuss with a lawyer; doing it doesn’t promise a result. They are worded as the sample report words them to Ravi, so the key dates, documents and missing information they mention are in the full sample report on step 02.
- Essential
You and all family members, including anyone not coming to Canada, need an immigration medical exam by an IRCC panel physician; Express Entry applicants get it after being invited and before applying. If you live in Canada and had an exam in the last 5 years showing low or no risk, you may be able to reuse it.
- Essential
You and family members aged 18 or older need police certificates for each country, other than Canada, where you lived six months or more in a row since age 18 in the last 10 years.
- Essential
Work experience is read against what the occupation's description says, not against your job title: IRCC looks for the lead statement and a substantial number of the main duties, including every essential one. For Canadian work it asks for employer reference letters covering each period you claim, with your work permit and your T4 slips or Notice of Assessment, or other records that substantiate the work, such as a letter of employment, contracts and pay stubs. Time while you were a full-time student does not count. Check that each letter states your duties, your dates, your hours and your pay, and that the duties in it are the duties you actually performed.
- Essential
Every figure in your estimate rests on a document, and the document has to still be valid on the day you submit. If your score is recalculated below the lowest score in the round you were invited in, IRCC says to decline the invitation; applying anyway can mean a refusal and no refund of the application fee. An expired language result, a lower retest, a job offer that has ended or a nomination that has been withdrawn all lower a score. Check the date on each language result, each credential assessment and each bank letter against the date you expect to submit, and ask for a replacement early where one will be needed.
- Essential
Unless you are exempt, your settlement funds must be your own and available, not borrowed or tied up in property, shown by letters from each bank listing balances, six-month averages and debts. You don't need proof of funds if you're invited under the Canadian Experience Class, or if you're authorized to work in Canada and have a valid job offer; IRCC's system still asks everyone for a proof of funds document, so in that case you upload a letter explaining why. Keep your funds up to date in your profile, since you may not know ahead of time which program you'll be invited under.
- To confirm
Please confirm, for:
- Express Entry: Comprehensive Ranking System: CRS core: Canadian work experience points.
- Express Entry: Comprehensive Ranking System: CRS additional points: Canadian post-secondary credential = 15 or 30.
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- With a lawyer
Go through this with a lawyer, for Keeping your status in Canada while you wait for permanent residence: Permit ends within about 12 months, or status may have ended: plan how to keep status until permanent residence.
- Good to have
If you want to explore Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program: Ontario Workforce Priority stream instead, start here: Ontario Workforce Priority stream: a full-time, permanent Ontario job offer (or self-employed physician).
The next steps, in order
- Right now
Put the key dates above in your calendar. Read back your answers and correct anything that isn’t right. Start gathering the documents on your checklist.
- Next
Fill in what we still need to know above, so we can check those requirements.
- With a lawyer
Go through the requirements that need a lawyer’s judgment together, then discuss your options and timing.
What could raise the ranking score
Each line changes one thing in Ravi’s answers and recalculates with the same points tables, today and under the rules announced for November 3, 2026.
| Change | Today | From November 3, 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| As things stand | 466 | 506 |
| CLB 9 or higher in all four abilities of your first official language | 514+48 | 554+48 |
| Valid first-language results at benchmark 8 or higher in every ability | 478+12 | 518+12 |
| French test results at NCLC 7 or higher in all four abilities, keeping your English results (French-language rounds also need this) | 528+62 | 568+62 |
| A provincial or territorial nomination | 1,051+585 | 1,091+585 |
On March 27, 2027 Ravi turns 33, and age points go from 94 to 88.
Scores are estimates from IRCC’s published points tables applied to these made-up answers. IRCC calculates the real score from a profile and documents, and cut-offs change with every round, so no score guarantees an invitation.
Every path the sample examined
Side by side, in the order the sample ranked them, with what it found for each.
| Path | Where it stands | What the sample found |
|---|---|---|
| Express Entry: Canadian Experience Class | Worth exploring | From what you told us, 7 of 7 requirements checked appear to be met. |
| Express Entry: Federal Skilled Worker Program | Worth exploring | From what you told us, 12 of 12 requirements checked appear to be met. |
| Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program: Ontario Workforce Priority stream | Something important is missing | From what you told us, 0 of 1 requirement checked appear to be met. Here’s what may not be met: Ontario Workforce Priority stream: a full-time, permanent Ontario job offer (or self-employed physician). |
In the made-up story: His sample assessment identifies which jobs could count and why his English result matters, so he can prepare his evidence before creating an Express Entry profile. This is an illustrative ending, not a real client’s outcome.