Vimal Sivakumar - 05 July, 2024
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has conducted a third Express Entry draw this week. Here are the results from IRCC's Express Entry draw on July 5, 2024.
In IRCC's third Express Entry draw this week, the department has issued 3,750 Invitations to Apply (ITAs). In today's draw, ITAs were issued to eligible category-based draw candidates with experience in healthcare occupations, all of whom had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 445.
This draw follows two additional Express Entry draws this week, a category-based draw for eligible trade occupation candidates (July 4, 2024) and a program-specific draw for Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) candidates (July 2, 2024).
Express Entry
Express Entry is what IRCC has named the application management system used to handle all applicants who attempt to immigrate to Canada through the following three economic-class permanent residence (PR) programs:
Since June 2023, the Canadian immigration department has issued ITAs through three different draw types. The names of these draw types are as follows:
General and Program-specific Express Entry Draws
These are IRCC's original two draw types, which have been part of the Express Entry system since it was first introduced in 2015.
These two draw types focus on welcoming immigration candidates with the highest CRS scores. These scores are assigned by IRCC to all eligible Express Entry candidates based on a variety of human capital factors such as age, education, and work experience.
The process of obtaining an ITA from IRCC through one of these draw types involves three general steps.
First, candidates must self-verify their eligibility for a minimum of one Express Entry-managed program. At this time, eligible candidates can proceed to create an IRCC profile online and receive their CRS score. Now, eligible candidates with a profile must wait until IRCC issues their next round of invitations to see whether they will receive an ITA.
Note: The term "round of invitations" is synonymous with "Express Entry draw".
To receive an ITA from IRCC, candidates are required to possess a CRS score above the department's cut-off for that given round of invitations. Additionally, it is important to know that ITAs are the only way Express Entry candidates will be permitted to submit an electronic Application for Permanent Residence (eAPR) to IRCC.
Category-Based Express Entry Draws
In June 2023, IRCC conducted the first category-based draw in department history. This new draw type was introduced as, and has become, a new way for the immigration department to attract immigration candidates to Canada based on their previous work experience and existing proficiencies.
In other words, based on an assessment of the attributes IRCC has deemed to be "in-demand" for Canada's labour force and demographics, the department has chosen to focus on candidates with the following work experience and proficiencies through category-based draws in 2024:
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