Express Entry: Issued 41,800 ITAs For Canada PR In The First Half Of 2019

12 Jul 2019

The first half of 2019 was the most effective six-months in the history of Canadian Express Entry system, with a sum of 41,800 invitations to apply for Canada PR issued.

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (I.R.C.C.) conducted 13 draws over the initial 6 months of the year 2019, issuing a sum of 41,800 invitations to apply (I.T.A.s). Only 2017 had a more active start to the year and just two different six-month periods have noticed more I.T.A.s announced since Express Entry’s launch in January 2015.

The Federal Express Entry system is Canada’s main source of skilled international workers. It controls the pool of applicants for Canada’s 03 Federal High Skilled economic immigration programs

• Federal Skilled Worker Class
• Canadian Experience Class
• Federal Skilled Trades Class

Eligible applicants for a particular program are accessed into the Express Entry pool where they are given a rank depends on a score given under the Comprehensive Ranking System or C.R.S.

The C.R.S. grant points for parameters that include educational qualification, age, skilled work experience, and ability in French or English.

An employment offer is not mandatory to enter or be selected from the pool of Express Entry.

A sum of 92,000 Express Entry applicants and also their families were entered to Canada as current permanent residents in the year 2018. This was an improvement of 41% over 2017 and reflected Canada’s rising admissions goals for the three Express Entry-associated programs and Canadian PNP, which includes many pathways to PR for Express Entry applicants.

The combined admissions goals for these popular immigration programs are slated to attain 160,100 latest permanent residents in the year 2021 below the Canadian multi-year plan for immigration levels.

Standard Draw Sizes

The first half of 2019 noticed that I.R.C.C. adopted the latest path to draw sizes that have continued steadily at 3,350 since the January end.

I.R.C.C. succeeded to issue greater I.T.A.s in the opening half of 2019 than it did in the opening half of 2018 — a year that achieved with the latest I.T.A. record of 89,800.

This success in the last year came on the ability in the second-half that provided 50,100 ITAs and also noticed draw sizes increase to 3,900.

Given its more important admissions goals for 2019 and 2020 by the three Express Entry-associated programs and the PNP, this could occur in the most active second half of a year for the Express Entry system.

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