{"id":8673,"date":"2021-05-26T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/?p=8673"},"modified":"2023-12-06T06:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T06:49:03","slug":"express-entry-draw-160-161-provincial-nominee-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/express-entry-draw-160-161-provincial-nominee-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Express Entry Draw 160 + 161 &#8211; Provincial Nominee Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, August 19th, 2020, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an\u00a0Express Entry draw\u00a0for candidates involved in the\u00a0Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).\u00a0Today\u2019s draw (160)\u00a0was held\u00a0at 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\u00a0points compared to the previous Provincial Nominee Program draw held on July 22nd, 2020. 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. Today\u2019s draw brings the total number of ITAs issued in 2020 to 62,450.\u00a0This signifies that despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Canada is continuing to select skilled workers for permanent residence.\u00a0IRCC 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><p><br>If you have any questions about express entry, permanent residence, provincial nominations or COVID-19 please contact us directly.&nbsp;<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/crs-match-17-2021-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8634\"\/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, August 19th, 2020, the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced an\u00a0Express Entry draw\u00a0for candidates involved in the\u00a0Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).\u00a0Today\u2019s draw (160)\u00a0was held\u00a0at 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\u00a0points compared to the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/express-entry-draw-160-161-provincial-nominee-class\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Express Entry Draw 160 + 161 &#8211; Provincial Nominee Class<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":167298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167438,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8673\/revisions\/167438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8673"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigroups.com\/edustaging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}