Historical: reflects OINP's EOI system as members understood it at the time; check Ontario's current program pages, including whether the stream is open or paused.Someone asked whether Ontario's Masters Graduate stream was temporarily closed, and the thread surfaced a confusion worth settling:
- For the Masters Graduate stream, you must file an EOI yourself. The corrective advice, repeated firmly: if you hold a master's from an Ontario institution and meet the other requirements, you register an Expression of Interest directly with OINP via Ontario's website. One member initially assumed a Notification of Interest would simply arrive if their profile got picked — and was told plainly that this was wrong for this stream.
- The confusion comes from OINP's other streams. A different reply described the automatic model — having an Express Entry profile picked up without a separate application — which is how OINP's Express Entry–linked streams (like Human Capital Priorities) work. Both mechanisms exist; they belong to different streams.
- So the method is: identify your stream, then check its intake mechanics on the official page. Whether a stream is open, paused, or draw-based changes frequently — the thread's original question (temporarily closed?) is exactly the kind of thing only Ontario's website answers reliably.