Originally Posted by
EGoodhue
It's possible to lodge an EOI at the moment - if you lodge one with 160+ points, it will be submitted into the Pool and just sit there until the next Pool draw (whenever that may be). Even if they don't resume draws for another 6+ months (the usual validity of an EOI in the Pool), your EOI will just stay in the Pool until the first draw (SM2.1.10).
I called INZ callcenter a month ago. The call answerer suggested that applying EOI during suspension would not give you advantage of being processed earlier in the queue when EOI is reopened.