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Healthcare and social services · 14 November 2025

Express Entry draw #379

On 14 November 2025, IRCC issued 3,500 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 462 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 10 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 4 weeks earlier. That was the lowest of the 7 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 16,500 invitations at cut-offs between 462 and 510.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #379 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

462

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #373 on 15 Oct 2025 at 472 (-10)

3,500
Invitations issued
#379
Round
14 Nov 2025
Date
December 02, 2024
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 462 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at December 02, 2024 at 22:19:41 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 462 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On November 9, 2025 it held 245,706 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.
Express Entry candidates by CRS range on November 9, 2025, against the 462 cut-off of round #379
CRS rangeCandidatesShare of poolAgainst the cut-off
601–12006960.3%All invited
501–60026,41410.8%All invited
Cut-off — CRS 462
451–50070,17528.6%Split by the cut-off
401–45068,93928.1%Below the cut-off
351–40052,36021.3%Below the cut-off
301–35019,1047.8%Below the cut-off
0–3008,0183.3%Below the cut-off

66,703 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 462 — 27.1% of the pool.

A further 15,830 sat in the 461–470 band, which 462 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 462 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 14 Nov 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the lowest of 7.
462
462
Lowest cut-off
510
Highest cut-off
7
Rounds
16,500
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #379 was held on 14 November 2025. IRCC has run 59 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 462.
The latest draw and the current poolAll 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 462 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 #379, 14 November 2025; pool as published on November 9, 2025.

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