Canada Invited 557 PNP Candidates To Apply For Permanent Residence

In the latest Express Entry Draw held on July 22, the IRCC (Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada) has issued invitations to 557 candidates. Candidates who have received invitations in this draw already had a provincial nomination. Thus, this was a program-specific express entry draw that targeted PNP candidates only. The PNP candidates required a Comprehensive Ranking System score of 687 points only. Since the candidates had obtained provincial nomination, they already had an additional 600 points. This means that they needed 87 points only based on human capital factors in order to receive an invitation from the IRCC.

Tie-break date and time

The IRCC uses a tie-break rule so that it can rank candidates with similar CRS scores. The tie-break date and time applied in this draw were November 11, 2019, at 8:51:21 UTC. So, candidates who have submitted their express entry profiles before the tie-break date and time received invitations in the latest draw.

Immigrate to Canada as a provincial nominee

The Express Entry allows the provincial nominee candidates to immigrate to Canada. First, you are required to make an Express Entry profile. And you need to ensure that you meet the criteria for at least one of the following three immigration programs:

Federal Skilled Trades
Federal Skilled Worker
Canadian Experience Class

By this time of the year, Canada had issued 45,400 ITAs in 2019. However, this year, it has already issued 54,357 ITAs so far. So, Canada is moving in the direction of achieving the target of 85,800 ITAs through Express Entry.