Overview
- Starting Nov. 3, 2026, IRCC will give up to 100 additional CRS points for qualifying high‑wage job offers and up to 70 points for eligible Canadian high‑wage work experience.
- The new job‑offer points will not require a Labour Market Impact Assessment and officers will instead check offers for genuineness.
- IRCC will automatically recalculate scores for candidates already in the Express Entry pool and has paused invitation rounds while recalculation proceeds, a process it says may take up to two weeks.
- Recent category draws that issued invitations on Oct. 15 and Oct. 16 — 2,500 Canadian Experience Class ITAs at a 519 cut‑off and 5,000 French‑language ITAs at 435 — will be next in line to see how rankings shift under the new rules.
- IRCC defines a 'high‑wage' occupation as one with a median wage at least 1.3 times the national median and will use Job Bank, the Labour Force Survey and Census data to decide which occupations qualify, a change that could reshape which occupations and nationalities rise in pool rankings.