In the first two draws of the year, IRCC has only invited PNP candidates to apply for Canadian immigration.
Canada held a new Express Entry draw on January 19, inviting 1,036 immigration candidates to apply for permanent residence.
The score cutoff was 745. PNP candidates get an automatic 600 points added to their score when they receive their nomination, which is why the score seems high.
So far in 2022, IRCC has invited 1,428 PNP candidates in total under Express Entry. Generally speaking, the CRS cut-off has been in the 700-800 range during the last 10 PNP-specific EE draws. Today’s cut-off of 745 was lower than the 808 CRS requirement for the first draw of this year on January 5.
Express entry draws since September has been for PNP candidates only. The last time (CEC) candidates were invited was in September 2021.
FSWP and CEC candidates make up almost the entire Express Entry pool
As of January 4, there are about 194,000 Express Entry candidates in the pool. About 80% of these candidates are eligible for the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), and nearly 20% are eligible for the CEC. The difference makes up the number of candidates eligible for other programs like the PNP and the Federal Skilled Trades Program.
Provinces have also selected Candidates through their PNP programs during January as follows:
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan invited 104 immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination in the first half of January.37 Candidates through the province PNP program and 67 through the list of occupations in demand of the province The lowest-scoring candidate from each sub-category had 68 points on Saskatchewan’s Expression of Interest (EOI) ranking system.
Manitoba
Manitoba has started off the year inviting 443 immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination through its three PNP programs
Skilled Workers in Manitoba — 357 invitations with a minimum score of 459;
Skilled Workers Overseas — 53 invitations with a minimum score of 711; and
International Education Stream — 33 invitations with no score requirement.
Among these invitations, 97 were issued to candidates in the Express Entry system.
British Colombia
BC PNP Tech Draw did issue 91 immigration invitations
So far this month, British Columbia has issued 425 invitations to apply for provincial nomination.
Prince Edward Island
PEI invited a total of 132 immigration candidates on January 20.
Express Entry and Labour Impact candidates received the most invitations, combined they received a total of 121. The remaining 11 invitations went to Business Impact candidates who had provincial scores of at least 72 points.
Alberta
Alberta invited 250 Express Entry candidates to apply for a provincial nomination in January. The lowest CRS score was 327.
Ontario
Candidates from all Employer Job Offer streams were invited to Ontario's first draw of the year.
Ontario invited 1,084 immigration candidates to apply for a provincial nomination through the following PNP streams:
• Foreign Worker stream employer job offer: 264
• International Student stream, employer job offer: 762
• In-Demand Skills stream, employer job offer: 58
