{"id":8624,"date":"2021-05-26T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T12:34:56","slug":"express-entry-draw-180-778-crs-points-pnp-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8624","title":{"rendered":"Express Entry Draw 180 &#8211; 778 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).\u00a0<br><br>Today\u2019s draw (180) issued 284 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates with a minimum\u00a0Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0score of 778. The sixth Provincial Nominee Program draw of 2021 saw the CRS score increase by 96 points\u00a0compared to the previous PNP draw held on March 17th, 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 44,124 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 16, 2021, at 16:09:32 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=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-1024x580.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-1024x580.png 1024w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-24x14.png 24w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-36x20.png 36w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021-48x27.png 48w, https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-march-31st-2021.png 1115w\" 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).\u00a0 Today\u2019s draw (180) issued 284 invitations to apply (ITAs) to candidates with a minimum\u00a0Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0score of 778. The sixth Provincial Nominee Program draw of 2021 saw the CRS score increase by 96&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8630,"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\/8624"}],"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=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}