How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #357?

On July 20, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 256,914 candidates. 49,056 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 475 cut-off. A further 17,741 sat in the 471-480 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 475 is not knowable from the data.

Healthcare and social services · 22 July 2025

Express Entry draw #357

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #357?

The cut-off for round #357, held on 22 July 2025, was 475. It was a Healthcare and social services round and it issued 4,000 invitations to apply, 29 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 7 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 475 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at March 13, 2025 at 13:08:29 UTC.

On 22 July 2025, IRCC issued 4,000 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 475 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 29 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 7 weeks earlier. That was the second lowest of the 4 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 8,000 invitations at cut-offs between 463 and 510.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #357 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

475

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #349 on 04 Jun 2025 at 504 (-29)

4,000
Invitations issued: #357
Round: 22 Jul 2025
Date: March 13, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 475 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at March 13, 2025 at 13:08:29 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 475 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On July 20, 2025 it held 256,914 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on July 20, 2025, against the 475 cut-off of round #357
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	200	0.1%	All invited
501–600	21,348	8.3%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 475
451–500	78,339	30.5%	Split by the cut-off
401–450	73,409	28.6%	Below the cut-off
351–400	54,165	21.1%	Below the cut-off
301–350	21,122	8.2%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,331	3.2%	Below the cut-off

49,056 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 475 — 19.1% of the pool.

A further 17,741 sat in the 471–480 band, which 475 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 475 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 22 Jul 2025

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

475

463
Lowest cut-off: 510
Highest cut-off: 4
Rounds: 8,000
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #357 was held on 22 July 2025. IRCC has run 81 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 475.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 475 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 #357, 22 July 2025; pool as published on July 20, 2025.

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