148th Express Entry Draw: Issued 3371 Invitations To Apply For Canada PR

16 May 2020

Canadian Express Entry draws are witnessing a downward trend in score demands for Canadian Experience Class (CEC)-particular draws, as the 15 May 2020 draw had the lowest points CRS cut-off for this cohort since Jan 2019.

Information about 148^th Express Entry Draw

The latest Express Entry invitation round announced 3,371 invitations to candidates in the CEC with Comprehensive Ranking System (C.R.S) scores of 447 or greater.

The cut-off CRS score of 447 is a drop of 5 points from the former CEC draw that held on May 1, which had a minimum CRS score of 452 and was earlier the lowest CRS demand of 2020.

The 15 May 2020 draw was the 2nd invitation round in 24 hours to announce Invitations to Apply (ITAs) for Canada PR. Another 529 ITAs were distributed to Express Entry applicants who are nominated by the Provincial Nominee (P.N.P) Program on May 14. The minimum required CRS score for these aspirants was 718.

A fixed number of the top-ranked applicants receive an invitation to apply for Canadian PR by frequent draws from the Express Entry pool and Refugees, Immigration, and Citizenship Canada (I.R.C.C) typically strives to process applications for Canada PR in less than six months.

The latest Express Entry draw maintained a trend that has marked the cut-off CRS score drop in each of the previous 4 CEC draws. This trend may be defined in part by the comparatively frequent interval and repetition between draws that I.R.C.C has managed during the previous two months.

Refugees, Immigration, and Citizenship Canada (I.R.C.C) engaged its tie-break rule in this CEC program specific draw and the time stamp used was 23 Dec 2019 at 10:01:06 UTC. This means that all contestants in the CEC with a CRS score higher than 447 points and also those contestants with a CRS score of 447 who presented their profile earlier to this timestamp, obtained an ITA for Canada PR in this CEC program specific invitation round.

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