Saw a lot of debate on 2-week/3-week draws here, here is my analysis and forecast for the remaining FSW draw dates and sizes in 2018. IRCC is not controlling the CRS cut-off score, but by controlling these dates and sizes, cut-off has stabilized between 440-455 region. Though in second draw of August, we may see 438/439. But again it will increase in September due to the 3-week draw as per postulated dates below.
Postulates:
1. IRCC will not have 3 FSW draws in any given month.
2. Will keep a minimum of 2-weeks (or 12 days if Monday draw) gap between draws, no back-to-back draws.
3. Will try to keep the 2 draw dates in a month as close as possible to 10th and 25th of that month (had seen this theory from another poster couple of months back, but was not further discussed)
4. Draws with 3-week gaps to be held in all Quarter-ending months - March, June, September, December, to keep the sanctity of points 1 and 3 above. The draw immediately after the 3-week draw may be a 12-day draw (has happened twice), but it will also depend on holiday schedule
5. Draw size pattern to be 4 consecutive draws with same size and the progression will be 2750 (this starts in Dec 2017) - 3000 - 3500 - 3750 - 4000 - 3750 - 3500. This will total to 84,500 ITAs in 2018. Additionally 2 FST + PNP draws - one in May (700) and one to be in November (around 700-800), will make the total number as 86,000 what we've been discussing.
Jan-July is actual data and Aug-Dec is postulated data in table below.
Month 1st Draw date 2nd Draw date Draw Size
January 10th Jan 24th Jan 2750
February 7th Feb 21st Feb 3000
March 14th Mar (3-week) 26th Mar (12 days) 3000
April 11th Apr (16 days) 25th Apr 3500
May 9th May 23rd May 3500 (FST+PNP draw on 30th May)
June 13th June (3-week) 25th June (12 days) 3750
July 11th July (16 days) 25th July 3750
Aug 8th Aug 22nd Aug 4000
Sep 12th Sep (3-week) 24th/26th Sep 4000
Oct 10th Oct 24th Oct 3750
Nov 7th Nov 21st Nov 3750 (Possible FST+PNP draw on 28th Nov)
Dec 12th Dec (3-week) 24th Dec (12 days) 3500