How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #345?

On April 27, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 246,673 candidates. 416 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 510 cut-off. A further 20,708 sat in the 501-600 band, which the cut-off runs through — IRCC does not publish scores at a finer resolution than these bands, so how many of that group cleared 510 is not knowable from the data.

Healthcare and social services · 2 May 2025

Express Entry draw #345

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #345?

The cut-off for round #345, held on 2 May 2025, was 510. It was a Healthcare and social services round and it issued 500 invitations to apply, 47 points above the previous Healthcare and social services round 23 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 510 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at July 21, 2024 at 04:31:17 UTC.

On 2 May 2025, IRCC issued 500 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 510 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 47 points above the previous Healthcare and social services round 23 weeks earlier. That was the highest of the 3 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 7,250 invitations at cut-offs between 445 and 510.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #345 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

510

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #327 on 20 Nov 2024 at 463 (+47)

500
Invitations issued: #345
Round: 02 May 2025
Date: July 21, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Federal Skilled Worker Program, Canadian Experience Class and Federal Skilled Trades Program

Candidates tied on 510 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at July 21, 2024 at 04:31:17 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 510 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On April 27, 2025 it held 246,673 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on April 27, 2025, against the 510 cut-off of round #345
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	416	0.2%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 510
501–600	20,708	8.4%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	72,523	29.4%	Below the cut-off
401–450	68,267	27.7%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,640	21.7%	Below the cut-off
301–350	22,553	9.1%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,566	3.5%	Below the cut-off

416 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 510 — 0.2% of the pool.

A further 20,708 sat in the 501–600 band, which 510 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 510 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 02 May 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the highest of 3.

510

445
Lowest cut-off: 510
Highest cut-off: 3
Rounds: 7,250
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #345 was held on 2 May 2025. IRCC has run 93 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 510.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 510 fell through the pool. Whether your own score reaches a category, and what would move it — a language retake, a provincial nomination, a spouse’s credentials — is a different question, and it is the one worth answering.

Data: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Round #345, 2 May 2025; pool as published on April 27, 2025.

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