Posted on July 23 2020

557 PNP candidates receive ITAs in latest Express Entry draw

By
Anshul Singhal
, Editor

Updated January 10 2024

In another draw specifically targeting Canada immigration candidates with a provincial nomination, Express Entry Draw #156 had invitations issued to 557 on July 22, 2020.

The previous draw – an all-program draw – was held on July 8, 2020.

The latest Express Entry draw by the federal Government of Canada only invited candidates that had received a provincial nomination under Canada’s Provincial Nominee Program [PNP]. As it was a PNP-specific draw, 687 was the required minimum Comprehensive Ranking System [CRS] score.

As a provincial nomination fetches 600 additional points towards the overall CRS score of a profile while in the Express Entry pool, the candidates would have at least 87 as their human capital score without the provincial nomination.

With this, Canada has invited 54,357 so far this year.

This is the 9th PNP-specific draw to be held since the COVID-19 special measures were put in place in Canada. Since then, federal Express Entry draws have alternated between candidates under the Canadian Experience Class [CEC] and the PNP. Such candidates are more likely to already be in Canada as compared to those applying from overseas.

The previously held Express Entry Draw #155 was the first all-program draw to be held since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A tie-break rule was used in this draw. The tie-break applied was of November 11, 2019 at 08:51:21 UTC. The tie-break comes into play in situations wherein more than one candidate has the lowest score.

Based on the tie-break rule applied in the latest draw, all those candidates received an Invitation to Apply [ITA] that had a CRS score of 687 or above and had submitted their Express Entry profile before the specified time and date.

Canada is well on its way of achieving the Express Entry target of 85,800 ITAs in 2020.

As per the 2020-2022 Immigration Levels Plan announced on March 12, Canada will be welcoming 341,000 newcomers in 2020. Of these, 58% – that is, 195,800 – will be through economic immigration.

Total 23 Express Entry draws held in 2020 so far

Sl. No.	Draw No.	Date of Draw	Minimum CRS	ITAs issued
1	#134	January 8, 2020	473	3,400
2	#135	January 22, 2020	471	3,400
3	#136	February 5, 2020	472	3,500
4	#137	February 19, 2020	470	4,500
5	#138	March 4, 2020	471	3,900
6	#139 [PNP]	March 18, 2020	720	668
7	#140 [CEC]	March 23, 2020	467	3,232
8	#141 [PNP]	April 9, 2020	698	606
9	#142 [CEC]	April 9, 2020	464	3,294
10	#143 [PNP]	April 15, 2020	808	118
11	#144 [CEC]	April 16, 2020	455	3,782
12	#145 [PNP]	April 29, 2020	692	589
13	#146 [CEC]	May 1, 2020	452	3,311
14	#147 [PNP]	May 13, 2020	718	529
15	#148 [CEC]	May 15, 2020	447	3,371
16	#149 [PNP]	May 27, 2020	757	385
17	#150 [CEC]	May 28, 2020	440	3,515
18	#151 [PNP]	June 10, 2020	743	341
19	#152 [CEC]	June 11, 2020	437	3,559
20	#153 [PNP]	June 24, 2020	696	392
21	#154 [CEC]	June 25, 2020	431	3,508
22	#155	July 8, 2020	478	3,900
23	#156 [PNP]	July 22, 2020	687	557
Total ITAs issued in 2020 so far – 54,357.