Because the Express Entry system counts work experience by calendar months rather than actual hours, it's possible to receive an ITA showing '2 years' of experience when a closer, hours-based count falls a little short (in this case, a few weeks of part-time work meant the applicant was short of a true 104-week/2-year threshold at the exact date of the ITA).
What group members advised:- Don't submit until you have genuinely completed 2 full years of qualifying experience. Rather than declining the ITA outright, wait until your actual work history clears the 2-year mark before submitting your application.
- You generally don't need to decline the ITA. The consensus among the two answers was to keep the ITA, but make sure that by the time you actually submit the application, your experience genuinely totals 2 full years — the submission date matters more than the ITA date.
Note: this was a genuinely disputed point even among immigration consultants in the thread (one RCIC advised declining, another advised keeping) — the safest practical approach is to simply delay submission until your hours-based experience unambiguously clears 2 years, which avoids the dilemma entirely.