Why can't the draw #348 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 726 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 126. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 726 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 277 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 2 June 2025

Express Entry draw #348

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #348?

The cut-off for round #348, held on 2 June 2025, was 726. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 277 invitations to apply, 20 points above the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 3 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 726 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at September 24, 2024 at 15:46:19 UTC.

On 2 June 2025, IRCC issued 277 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 726 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 20 points above the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 3 weeks earlier. That was the 9th lowest of the 22 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 17,365 invitations at cut-offs between 663 and 816. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 726 here is roughly 126 before the nomination — and it cannot be compared with cut-offs in any other category.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #348 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

726

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #346 on 12 May 2025 at 706 (+20)

277
Invitations issued: #348
Round: 02 Jun 2025
Date: September 24, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 726 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at September 24, 2024 at 15:46:19 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

The pool behind this round

IRCC published the pool’s shape alongside this round: 255,030 candidates on June 1, 2025. No cut-off line is drawn across it, and that is deliberate — a Provincial Nominee Program score is not on the same scale as the rest of the pool. The reason is below the table.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on June 1, 2025, against the 726 cut-off of round #348
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	274	0.1%
501–600	24,650	9.7%
451–500	75,330	29.5%
401–450	71,068	27.9%
351–400	53,714	21.1%
301–350	21,682	8.5%
0–300	8,312	3.3%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 726 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 126 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 726 and it would report that not one of 255,030 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 277 of them.

Only candidates already holding a nomination could be invited in this round, and the published pool does not identify them. The distribution is still worth seeing — it is the field this round was drawn from — but its scale and this cut-off are not the same scale.

In context

Provincial Nominee Program rounds in the year to 02 Jun 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 9th lowest of 22.

726

663
Lowest cut-off: 816
Highest cut-off: 22
Rounds: 17,365
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #348 was held on 2 June 2025. IRCC has run 90 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 726.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above is the pool this round was drawn from. 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 #348, 2 June 2025; pool as published on June 1, 2025.

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