Under the "Intended Work in Canada" section of an Express Entry application filed through the Canadian Experience Class (CEC), applicants are first asked whether they have a valid job offer, which then determines whether the follow-up questions (full-time, continuous, at least one year) even apply.
What group members advised:- If you don't have a genuine, LMIA-eligible "valid job offer" as IRCC defines it, answer "No" to the "Do you have a valid job offer?" question — even if your actual employment situation is part-time or otherwise doesn't cleanly fit the definition IRCC uses for a qualifying job offer.
- Answering "No" means you don't need to complete the additional full-time/continuous/one-year sub-questions. These sub-questions only matter if you're claiming a valid job offer for extra CRS points; if you're not claiming that, they become irrelevant and can be skipped.
The key distinction group members emphasized: this section is specifically about claiming a
qualifying job offer for CRS purposes, not about describing your actual work arrangement in detail — so don't force your part-time/informal offer into a "Yes" answer if it doesn't meet IRCC's job offer definition.