{"id":8623,"date":"2021-05-26T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8623"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:36:22","slug":"express-entry-draw-179-449-crs-points-canadian-experience-class-cec-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8623","title":{"rendered":"EXPRESS ENTRY DRAW 179 &#8211; 449 CRS POINTS &#8211; Canadian Experience Class (CEC) 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\u00a0Canadian Experience Class (CEC).\u00a0<br><br>The CEC is among the three programs managed under Canada&#8217;s Express Entry system.\u00a0The program is designed for skilled workers who have Canadian work experience and want to become permanent residents.<br><br>Today\u2019s draw (179) issued 5,000 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates with a minimum\u00a0Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0score of 449. This is the first CEC only draw since the historic CEC draw (176) which broke many Express Entry records.<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 43,840 ITAs. The bulk of these new ITAs stem from the aforementioned 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 February 19, 2021, at 15:59:57 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=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-1024x584.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-1024x584.png 1024w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-24x14.png 24w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-36x21.png 36w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021-48x27.png 48w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-18th-2021.png 1161w\" 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\u00a0Canadian Experience Class (CEC).\u00a0 The CEC is among the three programs managed under Canada&#8217;s Express Entry system.\u00a0The program is designed for skilled workers who have Canadian work experience and want to become permanent residents. Today\u2019s draw (179) issued&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8633,"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\/8623"}],"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=8623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}