Express Entry Draws and CRS Cutoffs

The lowest Comprehensive Ranking System score that received an invitation in that round. Everyone eligible for that round who scored above it was invited, and so were those at the cutoff score who submitted their profile before the tie-break time IRCC published. The cutoff changes every round because it depends on who is in the pool that day and how many invitations IRCC issues.

Category rounds only look at candidates who meet the category, for example French language ability, a healthcare occupation or a trade. That is a smaller group, so the score needed is lower. You still need to be in the pool and eligible for the category. A low cutoff does not help if your occupation is not on that category's list.

A provincial nomination adds 600 points to a CRS score, so everyone in a PNP round already has a nomination. A cutoff of 700 usually means a base score of about 100 plus the nomination.

When several people have exactly the cutoff score, IRCC invites those who submitted their Express Entry profile first. The tie-break date and time shown for a round is the profile submission cutoff for people at that score.

The site rebuilds every morning from IRCC's published rounds data, so a new round normally appears here within a day. If IRCC's data feed is unavailable during a rebuild, the page shows the last copy we saved and says so.