If your Express Entry profile calculated your CRS based on your work experience as of profile creation, but by the time you actually receive your ITA your experience has crossed a new threshold (e.g., from under 3 years to over 3 years), the key question is whether that matters for eligibility.
What group members advised:- Your experience is assessed as of the date you receive the ITA, not the original profile creation date. Recalculate your CRS score using your experience as of the ITA date, and compare that to the cutoff score for that specific draw.
- If your recalculated score (using ITA-date experience) is still at or above the round's cutoff, you're fine — there's no need to write a Letter of Explanation about a "system error," since there wasn't one; the system correctly used your profile-creation snapshot, and your actual eligibility should be judged against your ITA-date experience.
This addresses the core confusion (whether to decline the ITA or explain a discrepancy) — the practical answer is simply to recheck your numbers as of the correct date rather than assuming something needs correcting.