Why can't the draw #380 cut-off be compared with the Express Entry pool?

Because a provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points. The 699 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate whose score without the nomination was roughly 99. IRCC publishes the pool at base scores, so placing 699 on that distribution would suggest nobody qualified, on a day it invited 777 people. Only candidates already holding a nomination were eligible for this round, and the published pool does not identify them.

Provincial Nominee Program · 25 November 2025

Express Entry draw #380

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #380?

The cut-off for round #380, held on 25 November 2025, was 699. It was a Provincial Nominee Program round and it issued 777 invitations to apply, 39 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 699 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at September 06, 2025 at 01:16:22 UTC.

On 25 November 2025, IRCC issued 777 invitations to apply in the Provincial Nominee Program category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 699 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 39 points below the previous Provincial Nominee Program round 2 weeks earlier. That was the second lowest of the 24 Provincial Nominee Program rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 11,137 invitations at cut-offs between 667 and 855. A Provincial Nominee Program cut-off includes the 600 points a provincial nomination is worth, so 699 here is roughly 99 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 #380 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

699

Provincial Nominee Program

Previous Provincial Nominee Program round: #377 on 10 Nov 2025 at 738 (-39)

777
Invitations issued: #380
Round: 25 Nov 2025
Date: September 06, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Provincial Nominee Program

Candidates tied on 699 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at September 06, 2025 at 01:16:22 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: 245,758 candidates on November 23, 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 23, 2025, against the 699 cut-off of round #380
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool
601–1200	705	0.3%
501–600	26,213	10.7%
451–500	68,589	27.9%
401–450	69,958	28.5%
351–400	52,911	21.5%
301–350	19,270	7.8%
0–300	8,112	3.3%

Why there is no line on this table. A provincial nomination is worth 600 CRS points, so the 699 cut-off in this round belongs to a candidate scoring about 99 without it. The pool above counts everyone at their base score — draw a line at 699 and it would report that not one of 245,758 candidates qualified, on a day IRCC invited 777 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 25 Nov 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the second lowest of 24.

699

667
Lowest cut-off: 855
Highest cut-off: 24
Rounds: 11,137
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #380 was held on 25 November 2025. IRCC has run 58 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 699.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

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 #380, 25 November 2025; pool as published on November 23, 2025.

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