The Government of Canada has invited 2,750 candidates to apply for permanent residence in a new Express Entry draw that took place on Dec. 20, 2017. The cut-off Comprehensive Ranking System score for this draw was 446.
Today’s cut-off score was down six points over the previous draw, which took place on Dec. 6 and had a cut-off score of 452.
As with the previous draw, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) employed the tie break rule. While some candidates with a score of 446 received invitation to apply, the tie-break means that only those candidates with a CRS score of 446 who entered their profiles in the Express Entry pool prior to a date and time determined by IRCC received an ITA. In this case, that time and date was Oct. 2, 2017 at 14:56:53 UTC.
With higher ITA targets announced for the Express Entry system’s three economic categories in 2018, it’s expected that IRCC will have to perform either larger or more frequent draws from Express Entry pool in the new year, or both. Any of those scenarios could serve to lower the cut-off CRS score.
