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Healthcare and social services · 11 December 2025

Express Entry draw #385

On 11 December 2025, IRCC issued 1,000 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 476 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 14 points above the previous Healthcare and social services round 4 weeks earlier. That was the 5th lowest of the 7 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 14,500 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 #385 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

476

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #379 on 14 Nov 2025 at 462 (+14)

1,000
Invitations issued
#385
Round
11 Dec 2025
Date
November 26, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 476 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at November 26, 2025 at 07:44:30 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 476 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On December 7, 2025 it held 242,379 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.
Express Entry candidates by CRS range on December 7, 2025, against the 476 cut-off of round #385
CRS rangeCandidatesShare of poolAgainst the cut-off
601–12001,1100.5%All invited
501–60027,09611.2%All invited
Cut-off — CRS 476
451–50068,67928.3%Split by the cut-off
401–45066,30227.4%Below the cut-off
351–40052,34421.6%Below the cut-off
301–35018,7997.8%Below the cut-off
0–3008,0493.3%Below the cut-off

52,954 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 476 — 21.8% of the pool.

A further 14,851 sat in the 471–480 band, which 476 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 476 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 11 Dec 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the 5th lowest of 7.
476
462
Lowest cut-off
510
Highest cut-off
7
Rounds
14,500
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #385 was held on 11 December 2025. IRCC has run 53 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 476.
The latest draw and the current poolAll 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 476 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 #385, 11 December 2025; pool as published on December 7, 2025.

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