If your ITA arrived before you've technically completed a full year of eligible Canadian work experience, and the 60-day application deadline will land after that milestone:
- Don't decline the ITA. As long as you can submit your full application within the 60-day window and your one year of Canadian experience is complete by the day you actually submit, the timing works out — you don't need the experience finished on the day you received the ITA itself.
- Time your submission for right after your experience anniversary is reached, not immediately upon receiving the ITA. Submitting too early, before the year is actually complete, is the real risk here.
- Double-check your exact experience completion date against your submission date before hitting submit, since the deadline is about your file's submission date, not the ITA issue date.
The core rule: it's the date you submit the application that needs to reflect completed eligibility, not the date the ITA was issued.