{"id":593,"date":"2021-10-20T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.greentreeimmigration.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:29:57","slug":"top-10-myths-about-express-entry-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/top-10-myths-about-express-entry-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 myths and facts about Express Entry program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Express Entry is one of the fastest ways of immigrating to Canada, rather there have been several myths about immigration in recent times by the immigration candidates here in our blog we listed 10 myths about the Express entry program.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; color: #993300;\"><strong>Myths and Facts about Express Entry Programs<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/myths.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-611 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/myths.jpg\" alt=\"myths about Canada immigration\" width=\"648\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/myths.jpg 648w, https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/myths-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Job offer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: Valid job offer is required for the Canada Express Entry Immigration program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> is that job is not required for the express entry profile, If you have a valid job offer it only increases your CRS points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Anyone can enter:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: Anyone can enter the Express Entry pool\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> if you are eligible for Canadian immigration via the federal economic immigration program only you can enter the program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are a lot of misconceptions such as anyone can enter via this program it is not true regardless of age, experience, language ability, adaptability factors they also should qualify under any one of the Immigration programs such as<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>The Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>The Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>The Canadian Experience Class<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Find out of you are eligible under the immigration program from our Immigration experts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>False pieces of information:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: You can provide any false information for immigrating to Canada for the Express Entry program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> is not like that, no matter your interest in immigrating to Canada providing any false information in the Express Entry profile will be imprisoned to severe punishment. You will be imposed up to 2-5 years if you are caught.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Express entry updates<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: Once you created your Express Entry profile you cannot able to change your profile. Even your points are improved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> is not like that as a candidate you can update your profile as much as times. For example, if you improve your language ability you can update your profile or if you are selected in any of the province&#8217;s programs you can update your profile. It helps in improving your CRS score.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Language Ability\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: You don&#8217;t need to pass any language ability test in fact without language ability you can enter the pool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> is not like that you must pass the language ability test either English or French. Your language proficiency must meet the standards set for the Federal immigration program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Express Entry is the only way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: Express Entry is the only way you can immigrate under the economic immigration program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But the real <strong>fact<\/strong> is not that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/express-entry-canada.php\">Express Entry program<\/a> is not the only way to immigrate. You can choose several provincial programs for the economic immigration program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For example province like Quebec has its own set of province regulations and rules and does not rely on an Express entry program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>You have plenty of time<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: You have plenty of time when you apply for Express Entry Profile to submit as a whooping time of 60 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But in real <strong>fact<\/strong>, you have only I have an only considerable amount of time and you have to collect documents such as educational credentials, references, ECA verification, personal documents. You have only some limited time only to collect all the documents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Federal skilled occupation applies:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: Federal skilled eligible occupation still applies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But in real <strong>fact<\/strong>, it will not be applicable as on January 1 there has no eligible occupation list. There has a myth that potential candidates under FSWP still exist; it is not in real-time. Candidates must simply demonstrate at least a year of Work experience in the last ten years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Canadian job is classified into skill type and lists all the jobs under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/national-occupation-classification.php\">National Occupational Code<\/a> program. You can check your NOC code from the Canada immigration portal or from our immigration experts <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Medical Checkups<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Myth<\/strong>: You can check your Medical Checkups from your known source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But in <strong>reality<\/strong>, it is not like that any Medical Checkups when you apply for immigration you should only check from the approved Canadian hospitals and resources. You cannot able to check from your known resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><strong>Express Entry Process makes easy:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Myth: Express Entry makes the whole immigration process so easy way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in real <strong>fact<\/strong>, it is not like the Canadian government is choosing qualified skilled professionals only to enter the country. You can have passed several tests and improved your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/how-to-improve-your-crs-score\/\">CRS score<\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CRS is the only way you can improve your immigration points in the Express Entry.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There are several misconceptions while immigrating to Canada via Express Entry you can have a detailed list of progress do and don&#8217;t while immigration. If you are interested in Canadian immigration you can get detailed information&#8217;s from our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/canada-immigration.php\">Canada Immigration consultants<\/a>. Consult with our immigration experts to make your dream come true.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"all: initial !important;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Express Entry is one of the fastest ways of immigrating to Canada, rather there have been several myths about immigration in recent times by the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,10],"tags":[14,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2635,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/2635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentreeimmigration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}