Keeping your Express Entry profile up-to-date at all times is a basic necessity. An Express Entry profile should be updated when there’s a major change in your life circumstances. This means, you must update your Express Entry profile if:
- you have started a new career or got a job offer
- you lost a job offer
- you are getting married/divorced
- you are taking a language test (whether English or French)
- you recently had a child or adopted one
Such circumstances demand that you update the existing information in your Express Entry profile.
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Why Should You Update Express Entry Profile?
You have to keep your Express Entry profile updated always so that IRCC does not reject it on the basis of misinformation. In case you don’t update your profile, and IRCC finds out about that, it can:
- declare you inadmissible to Canada
- refuse your Canada PR application
- bar you for a total of 5 years. This means you won’t be able to come to Canada for any purpose during this time.
To avoid such mishaps, you can contact India’s best immigration consultants who will make sure that your Express Entry profile is updated, at all times. They will take all the measures so you can receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) in the Express Entry draws as soon as possible.
How to Update Express Entry Profile?
Follow these steps to update your Express Entry profile:
- Visit your IRCC account where you created the Express Entry profile to immigrate to Canada. On the account’s main page, visit the section “view the applications you submitted”. As the name suggests, here are all the applications submitted by you.
- Now, click on the “check full application status”.
- You can see that on the “Express Entry profile status”, there’s a “view your profile” option. Find it under the “Your Express Entry profile status” heading.
- There, you can see which forms have the “update form” option and based on the field you will be updating, select that form.
- Once you are done updating, click on the “save and exit” option and then on the “continue” button at the bottom of the page.
- You will see a set of instructions at the bottom. These instructions will help you submit the profile which you just updated.
Note: If you see a “view form” button instead of the “update form”, this means your profile is not eligible. In this case, create a new Express Entry profile.
Express Entry Profile Validity
An Express Entry profile remains valid for a 12 months or 1 year in the Express Entry pool. When IRCC conducts an Express Entry draw, it selects candidates above a certain CRS threshold. These candidates, or rather their profile, is picked from this very Express Entry pool.
If your profile didn’t receive an ITA in any Express Entry draw within a year of creating it, you will need to create a new profile. The profile will be removed from the pool once it is expired.
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