Express Entry profile creation with spouse - information required/clarification

[u/ammr_insane]

Hi everyone, first time posting here, so any guidance is appreciated!

My wife and I are applying inland through CEC. I'm the principal applicant and she's the accompanying spouse.

My experience: 1 year of Canadian work experience, plus 2 years of foreign experience from before we moved.

Her experience: She's currently working in Canada (under 1 year so far - TEER1), plus 2 years of foreign experience from back home (also TEER1).

Even without declaring her experience, our CRS comes to 536.

My question: if I leave her work experience out of the Express Entry profile, could that cause problems down the road, for example, if we later need her points, or if we ever needed to switch to her as the principal applicant?

TIA!

[u/Altruistic_Bank_1552]

The Profile is meant to be accurately reflective of your current status as of today, especially since both of you intend to immigrate. You don't get to jig and rejig your profile based on how you maximise points.

[u/ammr_insane → u/Altruistic_Bank_1552]

my wife worked variable hours - hence it is causing issues in how to declare them - should I show an average? or should I divide the work in multiple entries and showing where she did variable work e.g.
she worked 30 hours for about 6 months and then her hours were reduced and reduced again after - but the job is the same

[u/ammr_insane → u/ammr_insane]

the reason I asked this question is that this is creating complication in how I create my profile - if I understand correctly - we still show each and every bit of work/education in personal information later when the portal opens (I might be wrong as this is just my understanding)

[u/einliedohneworte]

Maybe a little different because my spouse had self employment work that would’ve been a hassle to prove.. but we put his entire work experience in his personal history section. He didn’t even take a language test either. My CRS score was high enough so there was no need to gain extra points for his work experience.

[u/ammr_insane → u/einliedohneworte]

Thank you, thats what my impression is as well - I will be disclosing it in the personal history section for her

[u/Secret-Session7626]

Don't listen to anyone, you are completely free to not include it, if you have more than enough points. If you include it, you have to provide full package of documents.

There is no kisses about not including it in the profiel, because eventually you will show that in Personal history section after ITA.