09/16/2026
Express Entry round #443 landed on 15 September, and it went to the Canadian Experience Class: 2,000 invitations at a CRS cut-off of 519.
Read it alongside yesterday and it teaches the whole thing in one go.
Round #442 on the 14th was bigger than its category average and closed below its average score. Round #443 today is smaller than its category average, 2,000 against 3,328, and closed above its average score, 519 against 514. Same relationship, running in opposite directions, two days apart. IRCC invites in CRS order from the top down, so the more people invited the further down the ranking it reaches and the lower the final score. Invite fewer and the score stays higher. That is all a cut-off is telling you, and it is why a score quoted without its invitation volume is close to meaningless.
The other thing worth knowing about 519 is how little it moves. This is the sixteenth Canadian Experience Class round of the year, six in the first quarter, four in the second, six in the third so far, and the entire 2026 range is about sixteen points wide. It is the steadiest number in the system, which is exactly why it is the one to plan against.
2026 now stands at 55 rounds and 128,732 invitations.
Our live trends tracker has already been updated with this round. You can filter every round since 2015 by category, see cut-offs and invitation volumes side by side, and work out where your own category actually stands rather than guessing from the last headline.
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Diksh*t Soni, RCIC R536007
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