Calculate Your Express Entry CRS Score

by Nationwide Visas Canada Immigration Services

Obtaining a Canada PR is the best way to immigrate to Canada in 2022. The Canada PR visa enables eligible foreign employees to work permanently in Canada and obtaining a Canadian PR permits you to multiple admissions over a five-year period. After completing your three-year period as a PR, you can also apply for Canadian citizenship.

The most popular choice to get a PR is through the Express Entry System. The Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) is an evaluating tool that the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) employs to rank profiles in the Express Entry pool against each other. This point-based approach assigns a CRS score Calculator to candidates in the pool based on age, language proficiency, work experience, education, and ties to Canada. Based on your CRS score, you will be placed in the Express Entry pool if you apply for a Canada PR visa through the Express Entry System.

The CRS draws are roughly issued every two weeks, the Canadian government holds an Express Entry draw, issuing a round of Invitations to Apply (ITAs) to those individuals in the pool who hold the highest CRS scores.

To be able to Qualify to even apply for the Express Entry, a minimum of 67 out of 100 points will be required. These points have been assigned to you based on the following factors:

Age
Education/ Qualification
Working Experience
Language proficiency
Adaptability

How to calculate Canada CRS scores?

Once you know that you qualify the 67 points out of 100, you submit your Express Entry profile online. Later, you are bound to calculate whether you shall be able to match the CRS cut-off. The CRS ranks eligible candidates for immigration to Canada through Express Entry under the following components:

Core human capital factors;
accompanying spouse or common-law factors;
skill transferability factors; and

factors relating to a provincial nomination that substitutes:

A qualifying offer of arranged employment
Canadian study experience
A sibling in Canada, and/or
French language ability.

There are a total of 1,200 points available under the Comprehensive Ranking System:

a maximum of 500 points available for core human capital factors;
a maximum of 100 points available for skill transferability factors;
600 points are available for either a provincial nomination; or
Up to 200 points are available for a qualifying offer of arranged employment; and
Up to 30 points for Canadian study experience;
up to 50 additional points for French language ability, combined with English language ability; and
a maximum of 15 points for a sibling in Canada.

For candidates who are applying with a spouse or common-law partner, there are the following:

a maximum of 460 points available for core human capital factors of the principal applicant;
a maximum of 40 points for the core human capital factors of the spouse or common-law partner;
600 points are available for either a provincial nomination; or
up to 200 points available for a qualifying offer of arranged employment; and
up to 30 points for a Canadian study experience.
up to 50 additional points for French language ability, combined with English language ability; and
a maximum of 15 points for a sibling in Canada (one sibling of the principal applicant and the accompanying spouse/common-law partner is considered).

What is a good CRS score?

While the lowest CRS score required to get an ITA in Canada historic was for February 2021 draw for Canadian Experience Class candidates which was only 75, the lowest CRS score chosen in 2020 (excluding program-specific drawings) was 468. The lowest cut-off in a non-specified draw was 438 in 2019, 439 in 2018, and just 413 in 2017. Because the CRS cut-off cannot be predicted ahead of time for each draw score, it is critical to optimize your CRS score whenever possible.