IRCC has held the twelfth Express Entry draw of 2023. PNP-Specific Express Entry Draw.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued a total of 589 invitations to apply (ITAs) in a Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) specific draw.
Candidates required a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 691.
Candidates who have been nominated by a Canadian province and are already in the Express Entry pool will be drawn specifically for the PNP. The fourth PNP-specific draw of 2023 will be held today. The most recent one, which was held on March 1, attracted 667 applicants. Since then, candidates from all Express Entry programmes have been taken into account in all draws.
Express Entry so far in 2023
Following the April 26 draw, 3,500 applicants with CRS scores of 483 were invited.
On April 12, 3,500 applicants with CRS scores of 486 were also invited by IRCC. This draw’s candidate count is half that of March, when the IRCC held four draws in a row and invited more than 21,000 candidates, including 7,000 in three of those draws.
In terms of overall invitations, March saw the second-highest number in Express Entry history. Only a draw in February 2021, in which 27,332 CEC candidates obtained an ITA, surpasses it.
A tentative restoration to the regular draw timetable occurs in April. Express Entry draws typically take place on Wednesdays every other week until late 2022 and throughout March 2023. Weekly draws were held throughout March.
Additionally, the draws in March and April demonstrated a return to regular all-program draws. This year’s Provincial Nominee Programme drawings were primarily program-specific between January and February. However, on February 2 IRCC staged the Federal Skilled Workers Program’s first-ever program-specific draw.
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