Canada Express Entry Draws (IRCC Rounds) Tracker

Get every Canada Express Entry round of invitations ("draw") as clean JSON: draw number, date, round type, category, eligible programs, invitations issued, CRS cutoff and the tie-breaking rule. Filter by category (CEC, PNP, French, Healthcare, STEM, Trades …) or date, get only the latest draw, and run it on a Schedule to be notified when IRCC holds a new round.

Unofficial tool. This Actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) or the Government of Canada. All data comes from information IRCC publishes openly on canada.ca. It is not immigration advice. Always check the official round page before acting on it.

What you can use it for

• Monitor new draws: run every few hours, get the newest round, and send it to email, Slack, Telegram or a webhook (see below).
• Immigration consultants and newsletters: publish draw results and CRS trends minutes after IRCC posts them.
• AI agents: a small, fast tool call that answers "what was the last CEC draw cutoff?" through the Apify MCP server or the Apify API.
• Analysis: export all rounds since 2015 to CSV/Excel to chart CRS cutoffs and invitation volumes by category.

How it works

The Actor downloads the JSON file IRCC uses for its "Rounds of invitations" table:

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/documents/json/ee_rounds_123_en.json

It normalizes every round, filters them locally, sorts them newest first and saves them to the dataset. It is a single plain HTTP request: no browser and no scraping of HTML pages, so a run takes a few seconds. If canada.ca refuses the direct connection, the Actor retries once through Apify Proxy.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
category	string	all	Only rounds of this kind. Case-insensitive. See the list below.
dateFrom	string	–	YYYY-MM-DD. Only rounds held on or after this date.
maxResults	integer	50	1–1000. Rounds are returned newest first.
latestOnly	boolean	false	Return only the most recent round that matches the other filters.

Categories (derived from IRCC's round type):

category	Matches round types such as
general	General, No Program Specified (all-program rounds)
cec (or CEC)	Canadian Experience Class
pnp (or PNP)	Provincial Nominee Program
fsw / fst	Federal Skilled Worker / Federal Skilled Trades
french	French-language proficiency
healthcare	Healthcare (and social services) occupations
stem	STEM occupations
trades	Trade occupations
transport, agriculture, education	Transport, agriculture and agri-food, education occupations
physicians, senior-managers, military	Physicians / senior managers with Canadian work experience, skilled military recruits

Example: the last 10 CEC rounds of 2026.

{
    "category": "CEC",
    "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
    "maxResults": 10
}

Output

One dataset item per round:

Field	Description
drawNumber	Round number as IRCC publishes it (string; a few early rounds are 91a/91b).
date	Date of the round, YYYY-MM-DD.
roundType	Round type exactly as IRCC names it, e.g. Canadian Experience Class, Healthcare and social services occupations (Version 2).
category	Normalized category (see above), or other for a new kind of round.
program	Programs whose candidates were eligible.
invitationsIssued	Number of invitations to apply.
crsCutoff	CRS score of the lowest-ranked candidate invited.
tieBreakRule	Tie-breaking rule: candidates at the cutoff score who entered the pool before this time were invited. null if IRCC did not publish one.
url	Official IRCC page of the round.
fetchedAt	ISO timestamp of this run.

Example item:

{
    "drawNumber": "446",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "roundType": "Canadian Experience Class",
    "category": "cec",
    "program": "Canadian Experience Class",
    "invitationsIssued": 2000,
    "crsCutoff": 518,
    "tieBreakRule": "February 13, 2026 at 20:48:08 UTC",
    "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/policies-operational-instructions-agreements/ministerial-instructions/express-entry-rounds/invitations.html?q=446",
    "fetchedAt": "2026-10-01T20:00:00.000Z"
}

You can download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or read it with the Apify API.

Monitor new Express Entry draws (with an Apify Schedule)

IRCC does not announce draws in advance, and they can happen on any weekday. To be told about each new round:

1. Save a Task for this Actor with the input you care about, for example every new round:

   { "latestOnly": true }
   

   or only new PNP rounds: { "category": "PNP", "latestOnly": true }.

2. Create a Schedule (Apify Console > Schedules > Create new) that runs the Task, for example every 2 hours on weekdays: 0 */2 * * 1-5, time zone America/Toronto.

3. Connect an integration to the Task (Integrations tab): email, Slack, Google Sheets, Zapier/Make, or an HTTP webhook on "Run succeeded".

4. Only react to new rounds: each run returns the latest round, so compare its drawNumber with the one you saw last (in Zapier/Make, use a "filter" or "only continue if new" step; in your own code, store the last drawNumber). A different drawNumber means IRCC has held a new round.

Each run downloads a single file and pushes one item, so scheduled monitoring is cheap.

FAQ

How quickly does a new draw show up? As soon as IRCC updates its JSON file, which usually happens the same day as the round, together with the official web page.

Why is drawNumber a string? IRCC numbered two early rounds 91a and 91b. Keeping it a string keeps the column stable.

What does "tie-breaking rule" mean? When several candidates have exactly the cutoff score, IRCC invites those who submitted their profile before the date and time shown.

IRCC launched a new category and it shows as other. Is that a bug? The raw roundType is always returned, so no data is lost. Open an issue and the category list will be updated.

Does it include the CRS score distribution of the pool? Not yet. The output is one row per round with the fields above.

Is this immigration advice? No. It reports what IRCC published. For your own case, use the official IRCC pages or a licensed consultant.

Local development

npm install
npm test           # unit tests (normalization, categories, filters, sorting)
npm run build
apify run --input '{"category":"CEC","maxResults":5}'

IRCC_EE_ROUNDS_URL overrides the source URL, for example to point at a local copy of the JSON file when canada.ca is not reachable from your network.

Data source

Data: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), "Express Entry rounds of invitations", public information published on canada.ca. Use of canada.ca content is subject to the canada.ca Terms and conditions. This Actor only reformats the published facts and links every round back to its official page.