The majority of Express Entry candidates who were issued an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Canadian permanent residence in 2016 had a core Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score below 450 — the lowest cut-off threshold of any draw over the first two years of Express Entry — and more than one quarter of all invited candidates had a core CRS score below 350. Core CRS indicates a candidate’s score without the additional points for a provincial nomination, a job offer, or education obtained in Canada.
Twenty-eight months after first being launched, Express Entry has more momentum than ever before, with 2017 having been a standout year so far in terms of the number of ITAs issued. This has had a significant effect on the decrease in CRS cut-off thresholds over recent months.
The story so far
Through the report, we learned the following:
- The majority of invited candidates in 2016 had a core CRS score below 450, the lowest cut-off threshold of any draw over the first two years. Of the 33,782 total invited candidates last year, 18,778 had a core CRS score below 450.
- 41,466 applications for permanent residence were received in 2015 and 2016. When also counting accompanying family members, this figure swells to 78,015, meaning that each application represents around 1.9 people.
- 183,009 eligible profiles were created over the first two years, meaning that around 23 percent of profiles resulted in a submitted application for permanent residence. Moreover, the current year has seen a significant increase in invitations issued, so this percentage is likely to increase through 2017.
- When the snapshot of the pool was taken on January 3, 2017, candidates who had an outstanding ITA, but who had not yet submitted an application for permanent residence, accounted for three percent of all eligible profiles ever created. Consequently, taken with the point above, more than one-in-four profiles resulted in an ITA having been issued.
- Nearly half (170,221, or 48 percent) of all attempted profile submissions were ineligible. This is because potential applicants must be eligible under one of the federal economic immigration programs (Federal Skilled Worker, Federal Skilled Trades, or Canadian Experience Class) before entering the pool.
- IRCC continues to meet its six-month processing time target in the vast majority of cases.
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