How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #349?

On June 1, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 255,030 candidates. 274 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 504 cut-off. A further 24,650 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 504 is not knowable from the data.

Healthcare and social services · 4 June 2025

Express Entry draw #349

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #349?

The cut-off for round #349, held on 4 June 2025, was 504. It was a Healthcare and social services round and it issued 500 invitations to apply, 6 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 5 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 504 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at March 31, 2025 at 06:47:23 UTC.

On 4 June 2025, IRCC issued 500 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 504 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 6 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 5 weeks earlier. That was the second highest of the 4 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 7,750 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 #349 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

504

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #345 on 02 May 2025 at 510 (-6)

500
Invitations issued: #349
Round: 04 Jun 2025
Date: March 31, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 504 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at March 31, 2025 at 06:47:23 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 504 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On June 1, 2025 it held 255,030 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on June 1, 2025, against the 504 cut-off of round #349
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	274	0.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 504
501–600	24,650	9.7%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	75,330	29.5%	Below the cut-off
401–450	71,068	27.9%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,714	21.1%	Below the cut-off
301–350	21,682	8.5%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,312	3.3%	Below the cut-off

274 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 504 — 0.1% of the pool.

A further 24,650 sat in the 501–600 band, which 504 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 504 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 04 Jun 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the second highest of 4.

504

445
Lowest cut-off: 510
Highest cut-off: 4
Rounds: 7,750
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #349 was held on 4 June 2025. IRCC has run 89 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 504.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 504 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 #349, 4 June 2025; pool as published on June 1, 2025.

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