An Express Entry PR application was
cancelled for incomplete documents because the police clearance certificate (issued by India's FRRO to a foreign-passport holder with on/off stays across countries) carried entry/exit dates that didn't match the applicant's actual travel history. When they recreated their EE profile, the score also came out far lower than before.
What members advised:- Verify every date on the PCC against your own records before you submit. Issuer mistakes happen; once IRCC sees a mismatch with your declared history, the application is at risk.
- If the PCC is wrong, chase a correction and reapply in parallel. The applicant contacted the issuing officer directly to try to fix the dates, but members' blunt advice was to apply for a fresh PCC as soon as possible rather than gamble on the correction — even though it means paying again.
- A collapsed CRS score on a rebuilt profile usually means data entry errors, not lost points. With the same underlying profile you should get essentially the same score (small age-related drops aside). Members' advice: run your details through the CRS calculator, then re-enter every section of the new EE profile slowly and carefully — a 100+ point drop almost always traces to a missed or mis-filled field (education, language results, work history).
- Check age effects explicitly. Age is the one component that legitimately erodes between profiles, but only by a few points — not enough to explain a massive drop.
Takeaway: treat the PCC as a document you audit, not just collect; and treat a shockingly low rebuilt CRS score as a form-filling bug to hunt down.