The Express Entry candidate pool significantly changed after the arranged employment points were removed under the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS).
This will greatly impact the chances of receiving an Invitation to Apply (ITA) for Canadian permanent residence, as thousands of candidates will witness their CRS scores drop by 50 or 200 points.
In this article, we intend to provide an overview of the current distribution scores among Express Entry candidates.
What are the changes in the Express Entry candidate pool?
There has been a drastic change in the score among Express Entry candidates within the 501-600 CRS score range that occurred in 5,740 profiles. Also, there have been similar decreases in profiles within score ranges between 491 and 500 CRS points, which witnessed a decrease of 1618 profiles, and 481 and 490 CRS points, which saw a decrease of 984 profiles.
Between March 16 and April 14, 2025, a total of 8,342 profiles were withdrawn from the Express Entry candidate pool across these three score ranges. All of these were above the 90th percentile.
The removal of arranged employment points will redistribute these profiles to lower score ranges within the candidate pool. Even with these radical decreases, the Express Entry candidate pool saw a growth by a total of 7373 candidate profiles.
This implies larger changes in the pool composition were due to the removal of arranged employment CRS points.
Several score ranges underwent significant increases in candidate profiles, with the most noteworthy being the addition of 2,157 profiles in the 461–470 CRS score range.
Since candidates with eligible arranged employment generally obtain an additional 50 CRS points, many of these 2,157 profiles were presumably reclassified from score ranges above 500 CRS points due to removing those employment-related points.
The following are the details of the change in the Express Entry profiles from 16th March to 14th April 2025.
| CRS score range | Change in Express Entry profiles |
| 601-1200 | +123 |
| 501-600 | -5,740 |
| 451-500 | +1,487 |
| 491-500 | -1,618 |
| 481-490 | -984 |
| 471-480 | +182 |
| 461-470 | +2,157 |
| 451-460 | +1,750 |
| 401-450 | +5,814 |
| 441-450 | +1,817 |
| 431-440 | +1,722 |
| 421-430 | +1,465 |
| 411-420 | +1,101 |
| 401-410 | -291 |
| 351-400 | +1,677 |
| 301-350 | +1,496 |
| 0-300 | +2,516 |
| Total | +7,373 |
The following are the current composition of scores within the Express Entry pool following the CRS point change.
| CRS score range | Number of candidates |
| 601-1200 | 816 |
| 501-600 | 19,782 |
| 451-500 | 71,542 |
| 491-500 | 12,093 |
| 481-490 | 12,359 |
| 471-480 | 16,215 |
| 461-470 | 16,189 |
| 451-460 | 14,686 |
| 401-450 | 67,301 |
| 441-450 | 14,131 |
| 431-440 | 14,740 |
| 421-430 | 13,084 |
| 411-420 | 13,020 |
| 401-410 | 12,326 |
| 351-400 | 53,479 |
| 301-350 | 22,799 |
| 0-300 | 8,563 |
| Total | 244,282 |
