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Factors Influencing CRS Score Express Entry 2022 | Canada Immigration: Express Entry is a system that is used to provide permanent residence. The skilled workers get permanent residence based on their CRS score. CRS is the Comprehensive Ranking System based upon what Canada immigration grants ITAs to the applicants. The candidates having higher CRS score has greater chances of receiving ITA. Also, candidates should note that they have to meet a certain CRS score cut-off to get an ITA. However, several factors affect the Express Entry CRS scores. This post will cover all those factors along with some other things you need to know.

Express Entry CRS Score

CRS is a Comprehensive Ranking System. It is a system developed by the Canadian government that allocates points to the candidates in the express entry pool out of 1200 points based on several factors. As we all know that express entry has three streams:

• Federal Skilled Worker
• Federal Skilled Trades
• Canadian Experience Class

So, any candidate applying for any one of the streams must meet the minimum CRS score requirement to get an ITA.

How To Calculate CRS Score?

CRS score calculation takes into account various factors like age, qualification, work experience, etc. Moreover, the CRS score distribution on various factors also varies for candidates applying with their spouses.

The CRS Score is calculated on basis of 4 factors:

• Core or Human Capital Factor
• Spouse or common-in-law factor
• Skill Transferability Factor
• Additional Factors

CRS Score Distribution

Factors	With Spouse/common-law partner	Without Spouse/common-law partner
Age	110	100
Education level	150	140
Official languages proficiency	160	150
Canadian working experience	80	70
Spouse-Level of education	10
Spouse-Official language proficiency	20
Spouse Required IELTS Score (General)	10
Total	540	460

Apart from this, additional factors include:

• Siblings living in Canada
• French language Skills
• Post-Secondary Canadian Education
• Job Offer in Canada
• Provincial Nomination

Factors Influencing CRS Score

Several factors are considered for the express entry CRS score cut-off. If there will large group of people with high CRS score points in the pool, then the CRS cut-off is expected to be high. Because Canada will surely aim to invite highly skilled people.

The other factor that determines the CRS score cut-off is the volume of applications in the pool. As Canadian immigration has its set targets for the year. Canada already decides the number of applicants it wants to invite to the country. So, the CRS score cut-off also depends upon it.

Apart from this, the cut-off is also estimated by observing the previous trends of Express Entry draws.

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