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Recent Express Entry draws
Recent Express Entry Rounds
Oct 1, 2026
CRS Cut-off
476
Invitations
3,500
Previous draws
- CEC #446Sep 29, 2026518 2,000 ITAs
- PNP #445Sep 28, 2026725 733 ITAs
- Senior managers #444Sep 16, 2026389 250 ITAs
- CEC #443Sep 15, 2026519 2,000 ITAs
- PNP #442Sep 14, 2026734 576 ITAs
About this round
- Who this round invited
- This round invited people in the pool with recent experience in an occupation on IRCC's trades list.
- Round date and time
- October 01, 2026 at 12:47:55 UTC
- Tie-break at the cut-off
- If more than one person had the lowest invited score of 476, IRCC ranked them by the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profile. For this round that cut-off was May 28, 2026 at 16:55:23 UTC.
- IRCC instructions
- IRCC publishes ministerial instructions for each round. Open the official list to find this draw's instructions.
How this page stays current
Draw figures are copied from IRCC's published rounds. They were last updated from that feed on Oct 7, 2026. Nothing on these tables is entered by hand.
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Latest Express Entry Draw - Frequently Asked Questions
The most recent round was held on Oct 1, 2026, with a CRS cut-off of 476 and 3,500 invitations issued, in a Trades Occupations, 2026-Version 3 round. See the table above for full detail and prior rounds.
This round invited people in the pool with recent experience in an occupation on IRCC's trades list.
If more than one person had the lowest invited score of 476, IRCC ranked them by the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profile. For this round that cut-off was May 28, 2026 at 16:55:23 UTC.
IRCC publishes no schedule. In practice rounds arrive in clusters, often more than one in the same week, separated by quieter stretches: across the most recent 50 rounds that has averaged a round every 5 days, with the longest gap running to 25 days.
Draw figures are copied from IRCC's published rounds. They were last updated from that feed on Oct 7, 2026. Nothing on these tables is entered by hand.
This page runs on the same IRCC draw-sync feed as our full Express Entry draw history, so the numbers reflect real published rounds - it isn't an official IRCC page, though. Always confirm your own results in your Express Entry profile, or with a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC).
Official IRCC sources
- IRCC: Express Entry rounds of invitations
- IRCC: category-based selection
- IRCC: Express Entry - who can apply
Eligibility rules on this page were last checked against IRCC on September 15, 2026. Draw figures come from IRCC's published rounds and are not part of that review. This is not an official IRCC page.
Draw figures were last updated from IRCC on Oct 7, 2026.