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Submit an Express Entry profile: Online form

Fill out the online form

If you want to come to Canada as a skilled immigrant, your first step is to submit your profile to the Express Entry pool.

If you’re eligible, we will:

• place you in a pool with others who are also eligible
• give you a score and rank you using several factors
• invite you to apply to be a permanent resident of Canada (if you’re one of the top candidates)

You can only apply online if we send you an invitation to apply.

Completing an online Express Entry profile or entering the pool doesn’t guarantee that we’ll invite you to apply for permanent residence.

Eligibility questions

Answer a few questions to see if you're eligible for Express Entry. It'll take you about 15 minutes.

If you’re married or have a common-law partner, one of you must be the main or principal applicant. This person will submit a profile and list the spouse or partner in it.

Your principal applicant should be the one of you most likely to:

• meet the eligibility requirements
• earn the most points in the selection factors (if applying under the Federal Skilled Workers Program)
• earn the most points in Express Entry’s Comprehensive Ranking System

This tool gives you a number at the end (a personal reference code). The code looks like: JM1234567890. Use this number to move your information from the tool to your Express Entry profile.

Find out if you’re eligible

Create your Express Entry profile

If you’re eligible, the tool will send you to your online account to fill out an Express Entry profile.

1. Follow the instructions to create an account (if you don’t already have one).
2. Enter your personal reference code when it prompts you to (only if you have one).
3. Enter your personal details.

• Create or sign in to your account

To complete your profile, you’ll need:

• information from certain documents (for example, language test results)
• your National Occupational Classification (NOC) job title and code

You may exit the profile at any time. Your information will be saved in your account.

You have 60 days to complete and submit your Express Entry profile. Otherwise, you’ll have to start again.

Once you’ve filled out your profile, you can submit it online. We’ll figure out which immigration program you’re eligible for under Express Entry.

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What to do while you’re in the pool

While you wait in the pool, get ready to accept an invitation to apply. If we invite you to apply, you’ll have 90 days to submit a complete application.

Get your documents ready

Having your documents ready will make it easier to apply within the 90 days.

Language tests

Check that your language test results are valid. They are valid for 2 years after the date of the test result. They must also be valid on the date you apply for permanent residence.

If your results expire before then, you should:

• be tested again or
• apply before your test results expire (if possible) or
• decline the invitation and go back into the pool to be considered in the future

If you apply for permanent residence with language test results that have expired, we'll reject your application.

Police certificates

You’ll need to get police certificates for you and any of your family members who are 18 years old or older.

In some countries, it can take a long time to get police certificates. Ask for them now that you’re in the pool, so you can submit them before your 90 days are up.

Find a job with Job Match

You can start your job search by creating a Job Match account with Job Bank. Job Bank is a database that can help match you with employers looking for workers with your skills.

To do this, you’ll need the Job Seeker validation code you received when you submitted your profile. Once you come to Canada, you can keep using Job Bank to find a job.

• Sign up with Job Bank

Try to improve your score

While you’re in the pool, you can improve your score and increase your chances of being invited to apply by:

• getting a valid job offer by:
  • using Job Bank
  • promoting yourself to employers in Canada using private-sector job boards
• contacting provinces and territories to consider you for a Provincial Nominee Program
• improving your language score
• improving your education
• gaining more relevant work experience

Keep your profile up-to-date

You must make sure that the information in your profile stays true and accurate at all times. You must update your profile if your situation changes, for example if you:

• start a new career
• gain or lose a job offer
• get a new language test
• get married or divorced
• have or adopt a new child

If we find that you gave us false information or left out important details, we can:

• refuse your application
• find you inadmissible
• bar you for 5 years from applying to come to Canada for any reason

Get updates about Express Entry

• Subscribe to email updates for the latest news about Express Entry.
• Like or follow us on our official social media channels.

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We rank candidates in the pool using a points-based system called the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). We select the highest-ranking candidates from the pool and invite them to apply for permanent residence.

Each invitation round has a set of instructions that are:

• posted online at the time of the invitation round
• used by the Express Entry system to invite candidates from the pool

The instructions include:

• the date and time of the invitation round
• the number of candidates that will get an invitation to apply
• which immigration program(s) are included in the round (some invitation rounds may only invite candidates for 1 program, for example only from Federal Skilled Trades)

Check your score and then use this information to see how likely you are to get an invitation in the next round.

Express Entry reports

• Express Entry: Year-End Report 2019
• Express Entry: Year-End Report 2018
• Express Entry Year-End Report 2017
• Express Entry: Early Observations on November 2016 Improvements
• Express Entry Year-End Report 2016
• Express Entry Year-End Report 2015

Results: Rounds of invitations

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Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system #167 – November 18, 2020

No program specified

See full text of Ministerial Instruction

Number of invitations issued: 5,000Footnote*

Rank required to be invited to apply: 5,000th or above

Date and time of round: November 18, 2020 at 15:27:32 UTC

CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 472

Tie-breaking rule: October 27, 2020 at 06:18:11 UTC

• If more than one candidate has the lowest score, the cut-off is based on the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profiles.

Footnotes

*

Candidates from all Express Entry programs were eligible for this round of invitations.

Return to footnote*referrer

See previous rounds

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/submit-profile/rounds-invitations.html

CRS score distribution of candidates in the Express Entry pool as of November 16, 2020

CRS score range	Number of candidates
601-1200	348
501-600	345
451-500	27,172
491-500	233
481-490	518
471-480	3,668
461-470	11,778
451-460	10,975
401-450	44,017
441-450	10,180
431-440	10,355
421-430	7,247
411-420	7,676
401-410	8,559
351-400	47,302
301-350	24,519
0-300	3,262
Total	146,965

All Express Entry candidates get a score out of 1,200, Example

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp 

Example

All Express Entry candidates get a score out of 1,200, based on the four parts of the Comprehensive Ranking System formula.

We invite the highest-ranking candidates from the pool to apply as a permanent resident through regular “rounds of invitations.” See what minimum scores have been in the past.

Core/Human capital factors

• Age = 0
• Level of education = 150
• Study in Canada = 0
• Official Languages = 110
  • First Official Language = 110
  • Second Official Language = 0
• Canadian work experience = 0

Subtotal - Core/Human capital factors = 260

Spouse factors

• Level of education = 0
• First Official Languages = 0
• Canadian work experience = 0

Subtotal - Spouse factors = 0

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Skill transfer ability factors

Education

• A) Official Language proficiency and education = 25
• B) Canadian work experience and education = 0

Subtotal = 25

Foreign work experience

• A) Official Language proficiency and foreign work experience = 0
• B) Canadian and foreign work experience = 0

Subtotal = 0

Certificate of qualification = 0

Subtotal Skill transfer ability factors = 25

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Comprehensive Ranking System formula

Subtotal Core/Human capital + Spouse factors + Skill transfer ability = 285

Provincial nomination = 0

Job offer = 0

Study in Canada = 0

Sibling in Canada = 0

French-language skills = 0

Subtotal Additional points = 0

Grand total = 285

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Use this tool if:

• you’re eligible for at least 1 Express Entry program
  and
• you have not filled out an Express Entry profile but you’d like to see what your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score might be if you do
  or
• you were invited to apply for permanent residence, and want to see if a change to your profile may affect your CRS score

You need to make sure that your CRS score is above the minimum points score of your round of invitations.

1) What is your marital status?                 Select...                 Annulled Marriage                 Common-Law                 Divorced / Separated                 Legally Separated                 Married                 Never Married / Single                 Widowed               

2) i. Is your spouse or common-law partner a citizen or permanent resident of Canada?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

2) ii. Will your spouse or common-law partner come with you to Canada?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

3) How old are you?

Choose the best answer:

• If you’ve been invited to apply, enter your age on the date you were invited.
  OR
• If you plan to complete an Express Entry profile, enter your current age.

                 Select...               undefined17 years of age or less18 years of age19 years of age20 years of age21 years of age22 years of age23 years of age24 years of age25 years of age26 years of age27 years of age28 years of age29 years of age30 years of age31 years of age32 years of age33 years of age34 years of age35 years of age36 years of age37 years of age38 years of age39 years of age40 years of age41 years of age42 years of age43 years of age44 years of age45 years of age or more

4) What is your level of education?

Enter the highest level of education for which you:

• earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
• had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)

Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.

                 Select...               undefinedNone, or less than secondary (high school)Secondary diploma (high school graduation)One-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteTwo-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteBachelor's degree (three or more year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute)Two or more certificates, diplomas or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more yearsMaster's degree, or professional degree needed to practice in a licensed profession (see Help)Doctoral level university degree (PhD)

4b) Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate?

Note: to answer yes:

• English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
• you must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation to apply your skills and knowledge
• you must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don’t count)
• you had to be enrolled full time for at least eight months, and have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

5) Official languages: Canada's official languages are English and French.

You need to submit language test results that are less than two years old for all programs under Express Entry, even if English or French is your first language.

i. Are your test results less than two years old?                   Select...                   No                   Yes                 

ii. Which language test did you take for your first official language?                   Select...                   CELPIP-G                   IELTS                   TEF Canada                   TCF Canada                 

Enter your test scores:

Speaking:Select...7.5 – 9.07.06.56.05.55.04.0 - 4.50 - 3.5Listening:Select...8.5 – 9.08.07.56 .0- 7.05.55.04.50- 4.0Reading:Select...8.0 – 9.07.0 - 7.56.56.05.0 - 5.54.0 - 4.53.50 - 3.0Writing:Select...7.5 – 9.07.06.56.05.55.04.0 - 4.50 - 3.5

iii. Do you have other language results?

If so, which language test did you take for your second official language?

Test results must be less than two years old.

Select...TEF CanadaTCF Canadanot applicable

6) Work Experience

i. In the last ten years, how many years of skilled work experience in Canada do you have?

It must have been paid and full-time (or an equal amount in part-time).

Note: In Canada, the National Occupational Classification (NOC) is the official list of all the jobs in the Canadian labour market. It describes each job according to skill type, group and level.

"Skilled work" in the NOC is:

• managerial jobs (NOC Skill Level 0)
• professional jobs (NOC Skill Type A)
• technical jobs and skilled trades/manual work (NOC Skill Type B)

If you aren’t sure of the NOC level for this job, you can find your NOC.

                   Select...                   None or less than a year                   1 year                   2 years                   3 years                   4 years                   5 years or more                 

ii. In the last 10 years, how many total years of foreign skilled work experience do you have?

It must have been paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in only one occupation (NOC skill type 0, A or B).

                   Select...                   None or less than a year                   1 year                   2 years                   3 years or more                 

7) Do you have a certificate of qualification from a Canadian province, territory or federal body?

Note: A certificate of qualification lets people work in some skilled trades in Canada. Only the provinces, territories and a federal body can issue these certificates. To get one, a person must have them assess their training, trade experience and skills to and then pass a certification exam.

People usually have to go to the province or territory to be assessed. They may also need experience and training from an employer in Canada.

This isn’t the same as a nomination from a province or territory.

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

Additional Points

8) Do you have a valid job offer supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (if needed)?

A valid job offer must be

• full-time
• in a skilled job listed as Skill Type 0, or Skill Level A or B in the 2011 National Occupational Classification
• supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) or exempt from needing one
• for one year from the time you become a permanent resident

A job offer isn’t valid if your employer is:

• an embassy, high commission or consulate in Canada or
• on the list of ineligible employers.

Whether an offer is valid or not also depends on different factors, depending on your case. See a full list of criteria for valid job offers.

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

9) Do you have a nomination certificate from a province or territory?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

10) Do you or your spouse or common law partner (if they will come with you to Canada) have at least one brother or sister living in Canada who is a citizen or permanent resident?

Note: to answer yes, the brother or sister must be:

• 18 years old or older
• related to you or your partner by blood, marriage, common-law partnership or adoption
• have a parent in common with you or your partner

A brother or sister is related to you by:

• blood (biological)
• adoption
• marriage (step-brother or step-sister)

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

Use this tool if:

• you’re eligible for at least 1 Express Entry program
  and
• you have not filled out an Express Entry profile but you’d like to see what your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score might be if you do
  or
• you were invited to apply for permanent residence, and want to see if a change to your profile may affect your CRS score

You need to make sure that your CRS score is above the minimum points score of your round of invitations.

1) What is your marital status?                 Select...                 Annulled Marriage                 Common-Law                 Divorced / Separated                 Legally Separated                 Married                 Never Married / Single                 Widowed               

2) i. Is your spouse or common-law partner a citizen or permanent resident of Canada?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

2) ii. Will your spouse or common-law partner come with you to Canada?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

3) How old are you?

Choose the best answer:

• If you’ve been invited to apply, enter your age on the date you were invited.
  OR
• If you plan to complete an Express Entry profile, enter your current age.

                 Select...               undefined17 years of age or less18 years of age19 years of age20 years of age21 years of age22 years of age23 years of age24 years of age25 years of age26 years of age27 years of age28 years of age29 years of age30 years of age31 years of age32 years of age33 years of age34 years of age35 years of age36 years of age37 years of age38 years of age39 years of age40 years of age41 years of age42 years of age43 years of age44 years of age45 years of age or more

4) What is your level of education?

Enter the highest level of education for which you:

• earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate or
• had an Educational Credential Assessment (ECA) if you did your study outside Canada. (ECAs must be from an approved agency, in the last five years)

Note: a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate must either have been earned at an accredited Canadian university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute in Canada. Distance learning counts for education points, but not for bonus points in your profile or application.

                 Select...               undefinedNone, or less than secondary (high school)Secondary diploma (high school graduation)One-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteTwo-year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other instituteBachelor's degree (three or more year program at a university, college, trade or technical school, or other institute)Two or more certificates, diplomas or degrees. One must be for a program of three or more yearsMaster's degree, or professional degree needed to practice in a licensed profession (see Help)Doctoral level university degree (PhD)

4b) Have you earned a Canadian degree, diploma or certificate?

Note: to answer yes:

• English or French as a Second Language must not have made up more than half your study
• you must not have studied under an award that required you to return to your home country after graduation to apply your skills and knowledge
• you must have studied at a school within Canada (foreign campuses don’t count)
• you had to be enrolled full time for at least eight months, and have been physically present in Canada for at least eight months

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

5) Official languages: Canada's official languages are English and French.

You need to submit language test results that are less than two years old for all programs under Express Entry, even if English or French is your first language.

i. Are your test results less than two years old?                   Select...                   No                   Yes                 

ii. Which language test did you take for your first official language?                   Select...                   CELPIP-G                   IELTS                   TEF Canada                   TCF Canada                 

Enter your test scores:

Speaking:Select...7.5 – 9.07.06.56.05.55.04.0 - 4.50 - 3.5Listening:Select...8.5 – 9.08.07.56 .0- 7.05.55.04.50- 4.0Reading:Select...8.0 – 9.07.0 - 7.56.56.05.0 - 5.54.0 - 4.53.50 - 3.0Writing:Select...7.5 – 9.07.06.56.05.55.04.0 - 4.50 - 3.5

iii. Do you have other language results?

If so, which language test did you take for your second official language?

Test results must be less than two years old.

Select...TEF CanadaTCF Canadanot applicable

6) Work Experience

i. In the last ten years, how many years of skilled work experience in Canada do you have?

It must have been paid and full-time (or an equal amount in part-time).

Note: In Canada, the National Occupational Classification (NOC) is the official list of all the jobs in the Canadian labour market. It describes each job according to skill type, group and level.

"Skilled work" in the NOC is:

• managerial jobs (NOC Skill Level 0)
• professional jobs (NOC Skill Type A)
• technical jobs and skilled trades/manual work (NOC Skill Type B)

If you aren’t sure of the NOC level for this job, you can find your NOC.

                   Select...                   None or less than a year                   1 year                   2 years                   3 years                   4 years                   5 years or more                 

ii. In the last 10 years, how many total years of foreign skilled work experience do you have?

It must have been paid, full-time (or an equal amount in part-time), and in only one occupation (NOC skill type 0, A or B).

                   Select...                   None or less than a year                   1 year                   2 years                   3 years or more                 

7) Do you have a certificate of qualification from a Canadian province, territory or federal body?

Note: A certificate of qualification lets people work in some skilled trades in Canada. Only the provinces, territories and a federal body can issue these certificates. To get one, a person must have them assess their training, trade experience and skills to and then pass a certification exam.

People usually have to go to the province or territory to be assessed. They may also need experience and training from an employer in Canada.

This isn’t the same as a nomination from a province or territory.

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

Additional Points

8) Do you have a valid job offer supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (if needed)?

A valid job offer must be

• full-time
• in a skilled job listed as Skill Type 0, or Skill Level A or B in the 2011 National Occupational Classification
• supported by a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) or exempt from needing one
• for one year from the time you become a permanent resident

A job offer isn’t valid if your employer is:

• an embassy, high commission or consulate in Canada or
• on the list of ineligible employers.

Whether an offer is valid or not also depends on different factors, depending on your case. See a full list of criteria for valid job offers.

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

9) Do you have a nomination certificate from a province or territory?                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

10) Do you or your spouse or common law partner (if they will come with you to Canada) have at least one brother or sister living in Canada who is a citizen or permanent resident?

Note: to answer yes, the brother or sister must be:

• 18 years old or older
• related to you or your partner by blood, marriage, common-law partnership or adoption
• have a parent in common with you or your partner

A brother or sister is related to you by:

• blood (biological)
• adoption
• marriage (step-brother or step-sister)

                 Select...                 No                 Yes               

Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) tool: skilled immigrants (Express Entry)

  https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/works.html

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp

 This tool will help you calculate your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score based on the answers you provide below. The CRS is a points-based system that we use to assess and score your profile and rank it in the Express Entry pool. It’s used to assess your:

skills

education

language ability

work experience

other factors

Use this tool if:

you’re eligible for at least 1 Express Entry program

and

you have not filled out an Express Entry profile but you’d like to see what your Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score might be if you do

or

you were invited to apply for permanent residence, and want to see if a change to your profile may affect your CRS score

You need to make sure that your CRS score is above the minimum points score of your round of invitations.