Why can't the draw #352 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 742 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 142. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 742 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 503 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 23 June 2025

Express Entry draw #352

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #352?

The cut-off for round #352, held on 23 June 2025, was 742. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 503 invitations to apply, 42 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. Candidates who tied at 742 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at May 30, 2025 at 21:44:57 UTC.

On 23 June 2025, IRCC issued 503 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 742 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 42 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 13 days earlier. That was the 14th lowest of the 23 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 16,494 invitations at cut-offs between 667 and 816. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 742 here is roughly 142 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 #352 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

742

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #350 on 10 Jun 2025 at 784 (-42)

503
Invitations issued: #352
Round: 23 Jun 2025
Date: May 30, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 742 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at May 30, 2025 at 21:44:57 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: 256,754 candidates on June 22, 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 22, 2025, against the 742 cut-off of round #352
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	471	0.2%
501–600	22,947	8.9%
451–500	76,748	29.9%
401–450	72,235	28.1%
351–400	54,237	21.1%
301–350	21,746	8.5%
0–300	8,370	3.3%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 742 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 142 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 742 and it would report that not one of 256,754 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 503 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 23 Jun 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 14th lowest of 23.

742

667
Lowest cut-off: 816
Highest cut-off: 23
Rounds: 16,494
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #352 was held on 23 June 2025. IRCC has run 86 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 742.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

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 #352, 23 June 2025; pool as published on June 22, 2025.

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