Every Express Entry draw since the middle of March has used the tie-break rule. Here’s an explanation of the rule.

Since Canada’s travel restrictions were put in place in mid-March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, every Express Entry draw has seen the tie-break rule implemented.

The tie-break rule is used to rank candidates who have the same Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score. The candidates are ranked by the date and time their Express Entry profiles were added into the pool.

This means that the tie-break rule prioritizes profiles that have been in the Express Entry pool for longer. 

The tie-break rule would usually apply to candidates whose CRS score is the same as the draw’s cutoff. In the June draw, only candidates with a CRS score of exactly 431 would be affected.

A candidate’s CRS score remains the primary factor in selecting candidates to be invited to apply for permanent residence.

It is worth noting that if a candidate makes changes to their Express Entry profile, this does not change the timestamp of when the profile was first submitted.

For example, if a candidate first submits their Express Entry profile in March, and makes changes in June that increases their CRS score to 431, they would still have been invited in the June draw.

However, if a candidate deletes their profile and resubmits their profile after April 3 at 12:56:32 UTC, they would not have been invited in the June draw.

The following table illustrates the candidates that are invited and the candidates that would still be in the pool. Note that the table is for illustrative purposes only.

Rank	CRS score	Date and time of profile submission	Status
3507	431	April 1, 2020, at 19:38:41	Invited
3508	431	April 2, 2020, at 10:42:01	Invited
3509	431	April 3, 2020, at 12:59:39	Still in the pool
3510	431	April 4, 2020, at 22:33:58	Still in the pool

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