How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #355?

On July 6, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 256,224 candidates. 358 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 518 cut-off. A further 22,591 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 518 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 8 July 2025

Express Entry draw #355

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #355?

The cut-off for round #355, held on 8 July 2025, was 518. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 3,000 invitations to apply, 3 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 12 days earlier. Candidates who tied at 518 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at October 02, 2024 at 1:48:36 UTC.

On 8 July 2025, IRCC issued 3,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 518 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 3 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 12 days earlier. That was the 6th lowest of the 16 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 42,350 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 #355 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

518

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #353 on 26 Jun 2025 at 521 (-3)

3,000
Invitations issued: #355
Round: 08 Jul 2025
Date: October 02, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 518 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at October 02, 2024 at 1:48:36 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 518 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On July 6, 2025 it held 256,224 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on July 6, 2025, against the 518 cut-off of round #355
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	358	0.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 518
501–600	22,591	8.8%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	77,550	30.3%	Below the cut-off
401–450	72,608	28.3%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,697	21.0%	Below the cut-off
301–350	21,135	8.2%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,285	3.2%	Below the cut-off

358 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 518 — 0.1% of the pool.

A further 22,591 sat in the 501–600 band, which 518 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 518 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 08 Jul 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 6th lowest of 16.

518

507
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 16
Rounds: 42,350
Invitations

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This is a record, not the current bar

Round #355 was held on 8 July 2025. IRCC has run 83 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 518.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 518 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 #355, 8 July 2025; pool as published on July 6, 2025.

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