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Healthcare and social services · 20 February 2026

Express Entry draw #398

On 20 February 2026, IRCC issued 4,000 invitations to apply in the Healthcare and social services category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 467 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, 9 points below the previous Healthcare and social services round 10 weeks earlier. That was the second lowest of the 8 Healthcare and social services rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 18,500 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 #398 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

467

Healthcare and social services

Previous Healthcare and social services round: #385 on 11 Dec 2025 at 476 (-9)

4,000
Invitations issued
#398
Round
20 Feb 2026
Date
December 09, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

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

Candidates tied on 467 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at December 09, 2025 at 18:22:06 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 467 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On February 15, 2026 it held 235,695 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.
Express Entry candidates by CRS range on February 15, 2026, against the 467 cut-off of round #398
CRS rangeCandidatesShare of poolAgainst the cut-off
601–12002800.1%All invited
501–60016,5597.0%All invited
Cut-off — CRS 467
451–50073,60931.2%Split by the cut-off
401–45064,30527.3%Below the cut-off
351–40053,65022.8%Below the cut-off
301–35019,0098.1%Below the cut-off
0–3008,2833.5%Below the cut-off

60,122 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 467 — 25.5% of the pool.

A further 15,426 sat in the 461–470 band, which 467 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 467 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Healthcare and social services rounds in the year to 20 Feb 2026

A cut-off means little on its own. Against its own category’s previous twelve months, this one was the second lowest of 8.
467
462
Lowest cut-off
510
Highest cut-off
8
Rounds
18,500
Invitations

Reading this today

This is a record, not the current bar

Round #398 was held on 20 February 2026. IRCC has run 40 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 467.
The latest draw and the current poolAll 438 rounds

Free CRS assessment

Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 467 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 #398, 20 February 2026; pool as published on February 15, 2026.

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