How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #381?

On November 24, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 246,656 candidates. 779 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 531 cut-off. A further 26,351 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 531 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 26 November 2025

Express Entry draw #381

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #381?

The cut-off for round #381, held on 26 November 2025, was 531. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 1,000 invitations to apply, 2 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 531 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at October 08, 2025 at 19:02:26 UTC.

On 26 November 2025, IRCC issued 1,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 531 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 2 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. That was the 6th lowest of the 13 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 24,850 invitations at cut-offs between 518 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #381 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

531

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #378 on 12 Nov 2025 at 533 (-2)

1,000
Invitations issued: #381
Round: 26 Nov 2025
Date: October 08, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 531 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at October 08, 2025 at 19:02:26 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 531 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On November 24, 2025 it held 246,656 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on November 24, 2025, against the 531 cut-off of round #381
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	779	0.3%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 531
501–600	26,351	10.7%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	68,875	27.9%	Below the cut-off
401–450	70,194	28.5%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,004	21.5%	Below the cut-off
301–350	19,321	7.8%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,132	3.3%	Below the cut-off

779 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 531 — 0.3% of the pool.

A further 26,351 sat in the 501–600 band, which 531 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 531 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 26 Nov 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 6th lowest of 13.

531

518
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 13
Rounds: 24,850
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #381 was held on 26 November 2025. IRCC has run 57 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 531.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 531 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 #381, 26 November 2025; pool as published on November 24, 2025.

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