Express Entry CRS draws: every round since 2015

The latest draw: 4 August 2026

A Provincial Nominee Program round issued 507 invitations at a cutoff of 768. That figure includes 600 points for a provincial nomination — without it, the score needed was 168.

Ties are broken by timing: profiles that reached 768 at or before May 15, 2026 at 15:58:19 UTC were the ones invited. A tie-break published as a full timestamp — rather than a date, the way Australia's rounds publish theirs — is how IRCC handles thousands of candidates reaching the same score within the same round.

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. None of the three draws from the same population, so a cutoff from one is never a fair comparison against 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 — none exist in this dataset before that date, so a competitor page describing them as a defining CRS feature without a date is describing something younger than it looks.

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 137 rounds since, spanning roughly 27 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.

Every published round since 31 Jan 2015

All 432 rounds, newest first. The underlying-score column applies only where a provincial nomination is folded into the published figure — everywhere else the cutoff is already a plain CRS score, so there is nothing to strip out.