020: Express Entry - Navigating the Nasty Online Portal with Marina Sedai

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Season 1 Episode 20: Podcast Show Notes – Marina Sedai- Express Entry 

Marina Sedai  has practiced immigration and citizenship law for the last 11 years. She holds a bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Political Science/International Relations and Psychology from Simon Fraser University.

Marina is the founder of Sedai Law Offices, and has been a frequent public speaker and taught immigration law, policy, and procedure at the UBC immigration practitioner’s program  from 2010-2014.

 In this episode of the Canadian immigration podcast we discussed the Express Entry Portal and the technical glitches. If you are an individual or representative the tips and tricks that Marina talks about, will help in using the portal without complication and frustration.

 Some of the specific areas covered include:

Whether or not the CRS points are going to drop. The linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives. How to update your profile and application.  Why the portal is now asking for a date specific time frame when leaving other countries. Why do items or full applications disappear from the portal? 

In order to help you jump to the areas of most interest to you, I have included below some timestamps for some of the significant topic covered in this episode.

4:24  - Who is Marina Sedai?

14:50 - Will the CRS points drop? 

18:20 – Linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives

30:21 – How to update your profile and application after you have submitted it.

37:00 – Processing time for FBI results

39:00 – Disappearing entries and information from the portal.

41:30 – Change of Circumstance

Divorce Change of address Change of number

42:45 – Reasons why attachments are rejected from the system

47:00 - How to locate Marina Sedai –[email protected]