In its new draw, held on June 25, 2018, the Government of Canada has issued 3,750 invitations to apply for Canadian permanent residence. The Comprehensive Ranking System score was 442, nine points down from the previous cut-off score of 451. The relatively short duration between draws and the large number of invitations contributed to make the CRS goes down.

Despite Canada has increased the number of invited candidates through Express Entry this year to 74,900, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada still has a long way to go: So far in 2018, 39,700 ITAs were issued by IRCC.