{"id":8708,"date":"2021-05-26T14:18:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:19:02","slug":"express-entry-draw-156-provincial-nominee-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"Express Entry Draw 156 &#8211; Provincial Nominee Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, July 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2020, 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 (156) was held\u00a0at 12:15:22 UTC. 557\u00a0candidates that had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 687 received an invitation to apply (ITA).A decrease of 9 points compared to the previous Provincial Nominee Program draw held on June 24th, 2020.<br><br>The CRS score may seem high but candidates with a provincial nomination receive an additional 600 CRS points which explain the spike in required points for the PNP.<br><br>Today\u2019s draw brings the total number of ITAs issued in 2020 to 54,357.\u00a0This signifies that despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada is committed to reaching its immigration targets for 2020.\u00a0<br><br>IRCC applied its tie-breaking rule with the timestamp of November 11, 2019, at 08:51:21 UTC. This simply means that all candidates with a CRS score of 687\u00a0or above, and previous candidates with a score of 687\u00a0or above who entered their profile in the Express Entry pool before the selected tie-breaking date and time will receive an invitation in this round. \u00a0<br><br>If you have any questions about express entry, permanent residence, provincial nominations or COVID-19 please contact us directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, July 22nd, 2020, 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 (156) was held\u00a0at 12:15:22 UTC. 557\u00a0candidates that had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score of 687 received an invitation to apply (ITA).A decrease of 9 points compared to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8690,"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\/8708"}],"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=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}