Today's Express Entry Draw – Number of Invitations Issued Increases Slightly

August 2, 2017- Today, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) invited 3264 people to apply for Permanent Residence to Canada through Express Entry. The number of invitations issued increased slightly by 62 invitations from the last draw on July 12, 2017. Candidates in the Express Entry pool for immigration to Canada with 441 or more Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points have been invited to apply for Permanent Residence. The CRS cut-off threshold has increased slightly by one point since the previous draw.

Today's draw is the third to have taken place since changes were made to the CRS last month. Following those 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. Surprisingly, the CRS threshold only increased minimally.