{"id":8622,"date":"2021-05-26T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:37:41","slug":"express-entry-draw-178-682-crs-points-pnp-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8622","title":{"rendered":"EXPRESS ENTRY DRAW 178 &#8211; 682 CRS POINTS &#8211; PNP ONLY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an\u00a0Express Entry draw\u00a0for candidates involved in the\u00a0Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).\u00a0This is the second PNP-specific draw in a row. Last Monday, on\u00a0March 8, IRCC invited\u00a0671 PNP candidates\u00a0to apply for permanent residence.<br><br>Today\u2019s draw (178) issued 183 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates with a minimum\u00a0Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0score of 682. The fifth Provincial Nominee Program draw of 2021 saw the CRS score decrease by 57 points\u00a0compared to the previous PNP draw held on March 8, 2021.\u00a0<br><br>Candidates with a Provincial Nomination receive an additional 600 CRS points which explain the spike in required points for this draw as only candidates with Nomination Certificates were selected.<br><br>The government of Canada has set the ambitious target of welcoming over 400,000 newcomers throughout the year. So far in 2021, IRCC has issued 38,840 ITAs. The bulk of these new ITAs stem from IRCC\u2019s recent unprecedented Canadian Experience Class draw (176) which took place on February 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021.<br><br>IRCC applied its tie-breaking rule with the timestamp of March 04, 2021 at 16:56:20 UTC. This means that if more than one eligible candidate had the minimum CRS score, only those who submitted their Express Entry profiles before this date and time received invitations.<br><br>If you have any questions about express entry, permanent residence, provincial nominations or COVID-19 please\u00a0contact us\u00a0directly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-24x13.png 24w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-36x20.png 36w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-48x27.png 48w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021.png 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an\u00a0Express Entry draw\u00a0for candidates involved in the\u00a0Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).\u00a0This is the second PNP-specific draw in a row. Last Monday, on\u00a0March 8, IRCC invited\u00a0671 PNP candidates\u00a0to apply for permanent residence. Today\u2019s draw (178) issued 183 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates with a minimum\u00a0Comprehensive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}