August 9, 2017 - Today, the Department of Immigration, Refugees
and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) invited 2991 people to apply for
Permanent Residence to Canada through Express Entry. The number of
invitations issued decreased by 273 invitations from the last draw
on August 2, 2017. Candidates in the Express Entry pool for
immigration to Canada with 433 or more Comprehensive Ranking System
(CRS) points have been invited to apply for Permanent Residence.
The CRS cut-off threshold decreased slightly by 8 points since the
previous draw.
This is the lowest CRS cut-off threshold since May, and the
lowest since changes to the CRS were implemented on June
6, 2017. Following these changes, it was expected that the CRS
threshold would go up temporarily to allow for the fact that some
candidates in the pool, specifically bilingual and candidates with
siblings residing in Canada, received a boost in their score last
month.
