Applicants who wait months for an OINP nomination sometimes face an awkward timing clash: the nomination is valid until one date, but their Express Entry profile expires just days later — and they wonder whether to accept immediately or hold out hoping their CRS score drops relative to future draws.
What group members advised:- If your EE profile expires before the nomination process wraps up, you can simply create a new profile. One member noted OINP likely won't have processed everything before your original profile lapses anyway, so recreating the EE profile is a normal, low-risk step — just notify the province that you've created a new one to replace the expiring one.
- Given the cost and effort already invested, accepting the nomination promptly was the more common recommendation. After paying the OINP application fee (around $1,500) and waiting months for the nomination, members leaned toward accepting right away and getting invited in the next available draw, rather than gambling on a CRS drop that isn't guaranteed.
The overall takeaway: don't let an expiring EE profile derail your OINP nomination — recreate the profile if needed, and weigh the sunk cost and certainty of accepting now against the uncertain benefit of waiting.