How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #347?

On May 13, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 250,082 candidates. 28 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 547 cut-off. A further 22,435 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 547 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 13 May 2025

Express Entry draw #347

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #347?

The cut-off for round #347, held on 13 May 2025, was 547. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 500 invitations to apply, 26 points above the previous Canadian Experience Class round 14 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 547 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at May 21, 2024 at 17:26:27 UTC.

On 13 May 2025, IRCC issued 500 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 547 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 26 points above the previous Canadian Experience Class round 14 weeks earlier. That was the second highest of the 14 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 36,350 invitations at cut-offs between 507 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #347 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

547

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #335 on 05 Feb 2025 at 521 (+26)

500
Invitations issued: #347
Round: 13 May 2025
Date: May 21, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 547 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at May 21, 2024 at 17:26:27 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 547 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On May 13, 2025 it held 250,082 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on May 13, 2025, against the 547 cut-off of round #347
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	28	0.0%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 547
501–600	22,435	9.0%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	73,741	29.5%	Below the cut-off
401–450	69,673	27.9%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,684	21.5%	Below the cut-off
301–350	22,069	8.8%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,452	3.4%	Below the cut-off

28 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 547 — 0.0% of the pool.

A further 22,435 sat in the 501–600 band, which 547 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 547 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 13 May 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the second highest of 14.

547

507
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 14
Rounds: 36,350
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #347 was held on 13 May 2025. IRCC has run 91 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 547.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 547 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 #347, 13 May 2025; pool as published on May 13, 2025.

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