{"id":8673,"date":"2021-05-26T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2021-05-26T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:52:23","slug":"express-entry-draw-160-161-provincial-nominee-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8673","title":{"rendered":"Express Entry Draw 160 + 161 &#8211; Provincial Nominee Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, August 19th, 2020, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an&nbsp;Express Entry draw&nbsp;for candidates involved in the&nbsp;Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).&nbsp;<br><br>Today\u2019s draw (160)&nbsp;was held&nbsp;at 12:41:09 UTC. 600 candidates that had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 771 received an invitation to apply (ITA), an increase of 84&nbsp;points compared to the previous Provincial Nominee Program draw held on July 22nd, 2020.<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>Today\u2019s draw brings the total number of ITAs issued in 2020 to 62,450.&nbsp;This signifies that despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada is continuing to select skilled workers for permanent residence.&nbsp;<br><br>IRCC applied its tie-breaking rule with the timestamp of July 24, 2020, at 11:39:23 UTC. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>If you have any questions about express entry, permanent residence, provincial nominations or COVID-19 please contact us directly.\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, August 19th, 2020, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an&nbsp;Express Entry draw&nbsp;for candidates involved in the&nbsp;Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).&nbsp; Today\u2019s draw (160)&nbsp;was held&nbsp;at 12:41:09 UTC. 600 candidates that had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 771 received an invitation to apply (ITA), an increase of 84&nbsp;points compared to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8681,"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\/8673"}],"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=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}