How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #359?

On August 5, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 256,585 candidates. 228 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 534 cut-off. A further 24,165 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 534 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 7 August 2025

Express Entry draw #359

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #359?

The cut-off for round #359, held on 7 August 2025, was 534. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 1,000 invitations to apply, 16 points above the previous Canadian Experience Class round 4 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 534 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at August 03, 2025 at 06:22:02 UTC.

On 7 August 2025, IRCC issued 1,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 534 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 16 points above the previous Canadian Experience Class round 4 weeks earlier. That was the 9th lowest of the 15 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 32,050 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 #359 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

534

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #355 on 08 Jul 2025 at 518 (+16)

1,000
Invitations issued: #359
Round: 07 Aug 2025
Date: August 03, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 534 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at August 03, 2025 at 06:22:02 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 534 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On August 5, 2025 it held 256,585 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on August 5, 2025, against the 534 cut-off of round #359
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	228	0.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 534
501–600	24,165	9.4%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	76,004	29.6%	Below the cut-off
401–450	73,839	28.8%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,590	20.9%	Below the cut-off
301–350	20,534	8.0%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,225	3.2%	Below the cut-off

228 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 534 — 0.1% of the pool.

A further 24,165 sat in the 501–600 band, which 534 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 534 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 07 Aug 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 9th lowest of 15.

534

507
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 15
Rounds: 32,050
Invitations

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This is a record, not the current bar

Round #359 was held on 7 August 2025. IRCC has run 79 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 534.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 534 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 #359, 7 August 2025; pool as published on August 5, 2025.

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