How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #387?

On December 14, 2025, the Express Entry pool held 237,302 candidates. 390 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 515 cut-off. A further 21,792 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 515 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 16 December 2025

Express Entry draw #387

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #387?

The cut-off for round #387, held on 16 December 2025, was 515. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 5,000 invitations to apply, 5 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 6 days earlier. Candidates who tied at 515 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at September 9, 2025 at 18:58:59 UTC.

On 16 December 2025, IRCC issued 5,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 515 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 5 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 6 days earlier. That was the lowest of the 15 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 35,850 invitations at cut-offs between 515 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #387 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

515

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #384 on 10 Dec 2025 at 520 (-5)

5,000
Invitations issued: #387
Round: 16 Dec 2025
Date: September 9, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 515 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at September 9, 2025 at 18:58:59 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 515 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On December 14, 2025 it held 237,302 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on December 14, 2025, against the 515 cut-off of round #387
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	390	0.2%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 515
501–600	21,792	9.2%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	68,700	29.0%	Below the cut-off
401–450	66,948	28.2%	Below the cut-off
351–400	52,574	22.2%	Below the cut-off
301–350	18,829	7.9%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,069	3.4%	Below the cut-off

390 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 515 — 0.2% of the pool.

A further 21,792 sat in the 501–600 band, which 515 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 515 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 16 Dec 2025

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the lowest of 15.

515

515
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 15
Rounds: 35,850
Invitations

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This is a record, not the current bar

Round #387 was held on 16 December 2025. IRCC has run 51 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 515.

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 515 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 #387, 16 December 2025; pool as published on December 14, 2025.

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