Express Entry CRS draws: every round since 2015

The latest Express Entry draw: 1 October 2026

A Trade occupations round issued 3,500 invitations at a cutoff of 476. The cutoff is below 600, so the lowest-ranked candidate invited held no provincial nomination: it is a CRS score without nomination points.

If more than one candidate had the lowest score, IRCC decided between them by the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profiles; for this round that point was May 28, 2026 at 16:55:23 UTC. IRCC publishes it to the second, rather than as a date the way Australia's rounds publish theirs.

Corrected 17 October 2026: this section said every candidate invited in a round that was not a nomination round held no provincial nomination. It also said ties went to the profiles that reached the cutoff score first; IRCC decides them by the date and time each profile was submitted. A general round can invite nominees too; what a cutoff below the nomination’s points shows is that the lowest-ranked candidate invited held none, and that is what it now says.

Latest CEC draw: 29 September 2026

CEC is the Canadian Experience Class, one of the programs Express Entry manages alongside the Federal Skilled Worker Program and the Federal Skilled Trades Program. In IRCC’s words, it “is for skilled workers who have Canadian work experience and want to become permanent residents.” A CEC draw is a program-specific round: IRCC invites only candidates eligible for that class, the highest CRS scores first. Who is eligible is set out on IRCC’s Canadian Experience Class page (opens in a new tab).

The most recent, on 29 September 2026, invited 2,000 candidates at a cutoff of 518, with the tie-break point at February 13, 2026 at 20:48:08 UTC. In the 12 months to 1 October 2026, IRCC held 23 CEC rounds. Their cutoffs ran from 507 to 534, each issued between 1,000 and 8,000 invitations, and they were 6 to 29 days apart.

Every CEC draw since 2015

IRCC has published 70 CEC rounds, the first on 20 February 2015, with 252,317 invitations between them. By year: 2015 (1), 2020 (10), 2021 (17), 2024 (10), 2025 (15) and 2026 (17). There were none in 2016 to 2019 or 2022 to 2023. IRCC has given no reason this page can cite, and it does not follow that CEC candidates went uninvited then: general rounds invite candidates from every program, and IRCC’s record does not say which program an invitee was in.

Among CEC rounds with no 600-point factor behind the cutoff, the lowest cutoff is 75, on 13 February 2021, also the largest round on record at 27,332 invitations, and the highest is 547, on 13 November 2024 and 13 May 2025. Neither end of that range is a requirement or a target. The one CEC figure above that, 808 on 20 February 2015, was set under the instructions in force from 30 January to 29 May 2015, when every candidate invited above 600 held 600 points for a provincial nomination or a qualifying offer of arranged employment. Without them it is 208.

Every draw type, across the whole series

IRCC runs three kinds of round — general rounds drawing from every program, rounds restricted to one program such as the Canadian Experience Class, and category-based rounds restricted to an occupation or attribute such as French-language proficiency. Each draws from a different, overlapping part of the pool, so a cutoff from one is not a fair comparison with a cutoff from another.

Category-based rounds are the newest kind in the table: the first, Healthcare and social services occupations, was held 28 June 2023, and none exist in this dataset before that date.

General rounds — the ones open to every program with no restriction — have not appeared recently. The last one IRCC published was 23 April 2024; every one of the 153 rounds since, spanning roughly 29 months, has been program-specific or category-based instead. IRCC has not stated a reason and has not said general rounds are gone for good, so this page reports the gap rather than a cause for it.

Express Entry pool distribution on 27 September 2026

With its rounds, IRCC publishes how many candidates in the Express Entry pool hold a CRS score in each range. As of 27 September 2026 there were 229,904. In IRCC’s words, the figures “reflect the total number of people in the pool overall, a few days before an invitation round.”

IRCC’s own table also lists finer rows inside some of these ranges: “The table numbers not in bold are a detailed breakdown of the bold number immediately above.” Add up every row on that page and those candidates are counted twice. The ranges here do not overlap and add up to the total. To see which range your own score falls in, score your profile with the CRS calculator.

Express Entry draw history: every round since 2015

All 448 rounds, newest first. The first table holds the 78 rounds of the last 12 months; the 370 before them, back to 31 Jan 2015, open underneath it. The excluded-points column applies only where a known 600 additional points are folded into the published figure: in a nomination round, where the nomination fills the ceiling on additional factors by itself, and in the 5 rounds of 2015 above 600, where every candidate invited held 600 points for a provincial nomination or a qualifying offer of arranged employment. What is left is the lowest-ranked candidate’s score from the core, spouse and skill transferability factors. Elsewhere no fixed number of additional points can be read from the cutoff, so the column is blank.