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Ray of Hope - 171st Draw (PNP)

13nitinsharma

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Results: Selection of candidates
Ministerial Instructions Respecting Invitations to Apply for Permanent Residence Under the Express Entry System # 171 - January 06, 2021

Provincial candidates


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Number of invitations sent: 250

Rank required to receive an invitation to apply: 250 th or above

Date and time of round: January 6, 2021 at 14:39:02 UTC

Score obtained in the CRS by the lowest ranked invited candidate: 813

Tie-breaking rule November 2, 2020 at 11:11:52 UTC
  • If more than one candidate obtains the lowest score, the tiebreaker will be based on the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profile.
Footnotes
*
Nominees from the Provincial Nominee Program were eligible for this round of invitations.
 

13nitinsharma

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Apr 17, 2012
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Breakdown of the CRS scores of candidates for the Express Entry pool, as of January 4, 2021

CRS NoteNumber of applicants
601-1200183
501-600273
451-50024,466
491-500231
481-490486
471-4801,134
461-47010 664
451-46011 951
401-45045,538
441-45010,760
431-44010,703
421-4307 483
411-4207,791
401-4108,801
351-40047,872
301-35024,903
0-3003,260
Total146,495
 

byab123

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I think the reason be coronavirus issue, CEC program helps to reduce number of immigrants flying to Canada, favoring in-Canada candidates
I get the point of having PNP/CEC only.

The problem is that CEC processing is badly backlogged. Now if they are doing PNP/CEC only again, which means more cases sent to Ottawa for each draw, they won't have enough capacity to process them.
 

TADF chemist

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I get the point of having PNP/CEC only.

The problem is that CEC processing is badly backlogged. Now if they are doing PNP/CEC only again, which means more cases sent to Ottawa for each draw, they won't have enough capacity to process them.
Got your point.

I think IRCC will allocate more manpower to that. If the processing speed is slower than the number of invitation, then there is no such thing called "Express Entry" where "express" here means "fast". Indeed, before Express Entry was introduced in 2015, PR was based on first-come-first-served and it could take years for an application to be processed, simply because too many prior applications.
 
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byab123

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Oct 15, 2019
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Got your point.

I think IRCC will allocate more manpower to that. If the processing speed is slower than the number of invitation, then there is no such thing called "Express Entry" where "express" here means "fast". Indeed, before Express Entry was introduced in 2015, PR was based on first-come-first-served and it could take for years for an application to be processed, simply because too many prior applications.
Yep, hopefully they can have more manpower to process backlog cases. Finger crossed XD
 

cheema007

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Apr 16, 2018
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Very disappointing scenario. My score is 468 and was hoping to get an ITA this time. If the all program ITA happens on 20th jan, what could be the cut off score?
 
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