How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #390?

On January 4, 2026, the Express Entry pool held 236,554 candidates. 559 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 511 cut-off. A further 21,013 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 511 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 7 January 2026

Express Entry draw #390

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #390?

The cut-off for round #390, held on 7 January 2026, was 511. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 8,000 invitations to apply, 4 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 3 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 511 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at June 10, 2025 at 15:59:25 UTC.

On 7 January 2026, IRCC issued 8,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 511 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 4 points below the previous Canadian Experience Class round 3 weeks earlier. That was the lowest of the 16 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 43,850 invitations at cut-offs between 511 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #390 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

511

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #387 on 16 Dec 2025 at 515 (-4)

8,000
Invitations issued: #390
Round: 07 Jan 2026
Date: June 10, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 511 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at June 10, 2025 at 15:59:25 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 511 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On January 4, 2026 it held 236,554 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on January 4, 2026, against the 511 cut-off of round #390
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	559	0.2%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 511
501–600	21,013	8.9%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	70,523	29.8%	Below the cut-off
401–450	65,120	27.5%	Below the cut-off
351–400	52,469	22.2%	Below the cut-off
301–350	18,745	7.9%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,125	3.4%	Below the cut-off

559 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 511 — 0.2% of the pool.

A further 21,013 sat in the 501–600 band, which 511 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 511 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 07 Jan 2026

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the lowest of 16.

511

511
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 16
Rounds: 43,850
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #390 was held on 7 January 2026. IRCC has run 48 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 511.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 511 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 #390, 7 January 2026; pool as published on January 4, 2026.

Three fields · about 30 seconds