IRCC issued an increasingly high number of ITAs in the first quarter of 2023

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BY GUNNESS & ASSOCIATES

April 26, 2023

A record number of Invitations to Apply (ITAs) were issued in the first quarter of 2023, making it the third-highest number to be issued in a three-month period since Express Entry was introduced.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 37,559 invitations, including the three largest all-program draws in history, each inviting approximately 7,000 applicants.

The number of invitations issued in 2023 was second only to the record year of 2021, contrasting starkly with 2022, which saw the least number of invitations issued for the first quarter on record.

In order to meet its record goal of 465,000 new immigrants in 2023—82,880 of those will qualify in the category of Federal High Skilled Workers—IRCC needs to generate an important amount of ITAs in the first half of the year.

Number of ITAs issued in 2023 in Express Entry Draws

In just three months in 2023, Canada issued 37,559 ITAs to applicants in a total of 10 Express Entry draws. The allocation of 2023 ITAs by date, starting in January, is given in the table below:

Draw No	Date of Draw	Programs	ITAs issued	CRS cut-off
#246	April 12, 2023,	All Program Draw	3500	486
#245	March 29, 2023	All Program Draw	7000	481
#244	March 23, 2023	All Program Draw	7000	484
#243	March 15, 2023	All Program Draw	7000	491
#242	March 1, 2023	Provincial Nominee Program	667	784
#241	February 15, 2023	Provincial Nominee Program	699	791
#240	February 2, 2023	Federal Skilled Worker	3300	489
#239	February 1, 2023	Provincial Nominee Program	893	733
#238	January 18, 2023	No Program Specified	5500	490
#237	January 11, 2023	No Program Specified	5500	507

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Overview of the Express Entry

Express Entry is the system used by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to manage the intake of applications for economic immigration submitted on or after January 1, 2015, for the following classes:

Federal skilled worker class (FSWC);
Federal skilled trades class (FSTC);
Canadian experience class (CEC);

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