Why can't the draw #377 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 738 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 138. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 738 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 714 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 10 November 2025

Express Entry draw #377

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #377?

The cut-off for round #377, held on 10 November 2025, was 738. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 714 invitations to apply, 23 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 738 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at February 22, 2025 at 2:12:01 UTC.

On 10 November 2025, IRCC issued 714 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 738 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 23 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 2 weeks earlier. That was the 8th lowest of the 25 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 11,267 invitations at cut-offs between 667 and 855. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 738 here is roughly 138 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 #377 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

738

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #374 on 27 Oct 2025 at 761 (-23)

714
Invitations issued: #377
Round: 10 Nov 2025
Date: February 22, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 738 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at February 22, 2025 at 2:12:01 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: 245,706 candidates on November 9, 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 November 9, 2025, against the 738 cut-off of round #377
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	696	0.3%
501–600	26,414	10.8%
451–500	70,175	28.6%
401–450	68,939	28.1%
351–400	52,360	21.3%
301–350	19,104	7.8%
0–300	8,018	3.3%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 738 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 138 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 738 and it would report that not one of 245,706 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 714 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 10 Nov 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 8th lowest of 25.

738

667
Lowest cut-off: 855
Highest cut-off: 25
Rounds: 11,267
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #377 was held on 10 November 2025. IRCC has run 61 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 738.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

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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 #377, 10 November 2025; pool as published on November 9, 2025.

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