Minimum Score climbed to 449 | 3900 ITAs issued

The 24th Express Entry Draw of 2018 and 104th till date, took place on November 15, 2018. In this round the Government of Canada issued a total of 3900 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) for Immigration to Canada under Express Entry Program.

The minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score is 449 and the tie-breaking date and time is September 16, 2018 12:41:42 UTC. This round was open to all Express Entry categories. To simplify this means that all candidates in the Express Entry pool with a score higher than 449 and candidates with score equal to 449 who submitted their profiles before 12:41:42 UTC on September 16, 2018 are invited to apply.

This is the first round in November, 2018 and the minimum score climbed from  442 in the last round held on October 29th, 2018 and 3900 ITAs were issued in all categories.

449 is the third highest cut-off score for an all program draw to get invited this year and below 456 on March 14 and 451 on June 13 when 3000 and 3750 ITAs were issued respectively.

With this draw the total number of invitations sent out in 2018 totals to 78100 as against a Total ITAs of 86023 of 2017.

The all-time low score drawn for an all program round was 413 in 2015. For complete details of previous draws check here.