How many candidates ranked above the cut-off in draw #400?

On March 1, 2026, the Express Entry pool held 232,534 candidates. 258 of them sat in score bands entirely at or above the 508 cut-off. A further 14,031 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 508 is not knowable from the data.

Canadian Experience Class · 3 March 2026

Express Entry draw #400

Q: What was the CRS cut-off for Express Entry draw #400?

The cut-off for round #400, held on 3 March 2026, was 508. It was a Canadian Experience Class round and it issued 4,000 invitations to apply, unchanged from the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. Candidates who tied at 508 were ranked by the date they entered the pool, with the cut-off timestamp set at June 24, 2025 at 22:35:48 UTC.

On 3 March 2026, IRCC issued 4,000 invitations to apply in the Canadian Experience Class category. The lowest-ranked candidate invited scored 508 on the Comprehensive Ranking System, unchanged from the previous Canadian Experience Class round 2 weeks earlier. That was the lowest of the 16 Canadian Experience Class rounds held in the year to that date, which together issued 50,500 invitations at cut-offs between 508 and 547.

Read and checked by Jay Sharma, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant R710507, licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Round #400 is reproduced from IRCC's official rounds feed and has not been edited.

Minimum CRS score

508

Canadian Experience Class

Previous Canadian Experience Class round: #396 on 17 Feb 2026 at 508 (0)

4,000
Invitations issued: #400
Round: 03 Mar 2026
Date: June 24, 2025
Tie-break

Programs eligible

Canadian Experience Class

Candidates tied on 508 were separated by how long they had been in the pool. The tie-break was set at June 24, 2025 at 22:35:48 UTC — a profile submitted before that moment was invited, one submitted after it was not.

The pool that week

Where 508 fell through the pool

IRCC published the Express Entry pool’s shape alongside this round. On March 1, 2026 it held 232,534 candidates, and the cut-off ran through them here.

Express Entry candidates by CRS range on March 1, 2026, against the 508 cut-off of round #400
CRS range	Candidates	Share of pool	Against the cut-off
601–1200	258	0.1%	All invited
Cut-off — CRS 508
501–600	14,031	6.0%	Split by the cut-off
451–500	71,680	30.8%	Below the cut-off
401–450	65,868	28.3%	Below the cut-off
351–400	53,727	23.1%	Below the cut-off
301–350	18,694	8.0%	Below the cut-off
0–300	8,276	3.6%	Below the cut-off

258 candidates sat in bands entirely at or above 508 — 0.1% of the pool.

A further 14,031 sat in the 501–600 band, which 508 falls inside. IRCC does not publish scores more finely than this, so how many of them cleared 508 is not knowable from the data.

In context

Canadian Experience Class rounds in the year to 03 Mar 2026

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

508

508
Lowest cut-off: 547
Highest cut-off: 16
Rounds: 50,500
Invitations

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This is a record, not the current bar

Round #400 was held on 3 March 2026. IRCC has run 38 rounds since, and the current cut-off for this category is not 508.

The latest draw and the current pool All 438 rounds

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Would this round have taken you?

The table above says where 508 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 #400, 3 March 2026; pool as published on March 1, 2026.

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