PNP Candidates Invited For Canada PR

463 PNP candidates invited to apply for Canadian permanent residence

463 provincial nominees were invited by Canada in the Express Entry pool to apply for permanent residence on August 18. To receive an invitation, candidates required a score of at least 751 with a nomination from an Express Entry-linked Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). PNP draws usually have high score cutoffs because the provincial nomination itself is worth 600 points. In the previous PNP draw, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) invited candidates with scores of at least 760.

Candidates with the minimum score were only invited if they submitted their profiles before April 13th, 2021. IRCC usually publishes a cutoff time, immaterial of whether there was an actual tie. Till now in 2021, IRCC has only been drawing two types of candidates from the Express Entry pool: PNP and Canadian Experience Class (CEC).

Due to the pandemic, Express Entry candidates who are eligible for the PNP or CEC are highly likely to be in Canada already. PNP candidates have demonstrated to a province that they will succeed in the Canadian labor market. The PNP essentially tunes in on where there are gaps in the workforce. The programs that future immigrants apply to at the provincial level were adjusted to fix those gaps. When immigrants get nominated for them, it means they fill a need in the regional labor market. Federal programs cannot fill regional needs in the same way.

The federal government must keep working with the provinces to support their immigration goals. Now that approved permanent residents are exempted from travel restrictions, PNP applicants abroad can complete their landing in Canada and become permanent residents. Compared to the same time last year, the number of Invitations to Apply (ITAs) issued by IRCC has almost doubled. Canada has issued 102,779 invitations through the Express Entry system.