Canada invites 940 PNP candidates with CRS scores of at least 711.
Canada held a new Express Entry draw, inviting 940 candidates to apply for permanent residence.
All invited candidates had previously received a nomination from a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). This is why the score cutoff was relatively high at 711, because all PNP candidates in the Express Entry pool automatically get 600 points added to their score. Without the nomination, the lowest-scoring candidate would have had just 111 points.
In the previous PNP-only draw, Canada invited 500 candidates, and the score requirement was 713 points. This draw almost doubled the number of invites, and the cutoff score dipped two points.
So far in 2021, Canada has issued 75,713 invitations.
PNP draws will always have much higher score requirements as a result of the 600-point award. CEC draws will have lower score cutoffs, due to large draw sizes in a relatively small pool of candidates.
