Express Entry draw history: every draw, charted

The most recent draw was on July 20, 2026: a Provincial Nominee Program round that invited 511 candidates with a CRS cutoff of 744. This page refreshes automatically from IRCC data after every round.

Over the last two years IRCC has held 122 draws, an average of about 5 per month. Provincial Nominee Program rounds usually run every two weeks, with Canadian Experience Class and category-based rounds slotted between them. There is no fixed public calendar.

The lowest cutoff of the last two years was 169, in the Physicians with Canadian Work Experience, 2026-Version 1 draw on February 19, 2026. Among the broad categories, French-language proficiency draws have gone as low as 379, far below the Canadian Experience Class range of 507 to 547.

No. The last general draw open to all programs was on April 23, 2024, with a CRS cutoff of 529. Since then every round has targeted a specific program (CEC or PNP) or a category such as French-language proficiency, healthcare, trades or education.

It depends entirely on which stream can invite you. Recent Canadian Experience Class rounds cut off around 517, French-language proficiency rounds around 420, and healthcare, trades and education rounds have mostly landed in the 430s to 510s. PNP rounds look extreme (667 and up) only because a nomination adds 600 points to your score.

Every candidate in a PNP round already holds a provincial nomination, which adds exactly 600 CRS points. A cutoff of 744 therefore corresponds to a base score of about 144 before the nomination. PNP cutoffs are not comparable with other rounds.

IRCC announced the 2026 lineup on February 18, 2026: French-language proficiency, healthcare and social services, trades, and new categories for physicians, researchers, senior managers, transport occupations and certain skilled military recruits, all requiring at least one year of qualifying work experience. Physicians and senior managers have already had their first draws; researchers, transport and military rounds are still to come.

IRCC has issued 97,612 invitations so far in 2026, after 113,998 in all of 2025. The 2026 to 2028 Immigration Levels Plan holds permanent resident admissions at 380,000 per year with the economic share rising to about 64 percent, so overall invitation volumes are expected to stay in a similar range.

Since mid-2023, IRCC can invite candidates who qualify for a specific category (for example French speakers or healthcare workers) rather than everyone in the pool. Inside a category, candidates are still ranked and cut off by CRS score, which is why category cutoffs are usually much lower than program-wide ones.

Yes, and it is the largest gap in the system. The latest French-language proficiency cutoff was 420, while the latest Canadian Experience Class cutoff was 517, a difference of 97 points. French draws also issued 89,100 invitations over the window, more than any other targeted category.

For most candidates, language scores. Moving from CLB 7 to CLB 9 in your first language adds direct points plus large skill-transferability bonuses, and reaching NCLC 7 in French adds a bonus of 25 to 50 points on top and unlocks the lowest-cutoff category in the system.

Every number on this page comes from the official IRCC rounds of invitations dataset published on canada.ca. The page re-syncs automatically, so new draws appear within a day of being announced.