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Elimination of Express Entry Arranged Employment (Job Offer) Points

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CountryCanada
Operative dateMarch 25, 2025
CategoryOther, residence
Policy toolEligibility

Policy effect

IRCC has removed all Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points awarded for arranged employment (job offers) in the Express Entry system, effective March 25, 2025. While a valid job offer may remain an eligibility requirement for certain programs, it no longer grants bonus ranking points. This measure aims to combat fraud, such as the buying and selling of illegal LMIAs. Candidates with an Invitation to Apply (ITA) prior to the effective date are grandfathered.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: While a valid job offer may remain an eligibility requirement for certain programs, it no longer grants bonus ranking points.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

… under paragraph 10.3(1)(h) [Footnote a](#fn1) of the *Immigration and Refugee Protection Act*[Footnote b](#fn2). Ottawa, March 11, 2025 MARC MILLER *Minister of Citizenship and Immigration* ## Amendments 1 **Subparagraph 8(1)(d)(ii) of the *Ministerial Instructions Respecting the Express Entry System*[Footnote 1](#fn3) is repealed.** 2 (1)** Subsection 29(1) of the Instructions is repealed.** (2)** Subsections 29(3) and (4) of the Instructions are replaced by the following:** ### Loss of offer or inability to perform duties (3) If the offer is revoked or if the foreign national is unable to perform the duties of the employment or is unlikely to agree to perform them, the offer is no longer a qualifying offer of arranged employment. 3 **The Instructions are amended by adding the following after section 33:** ### Previous version — subparagraph 8(1)(d)(ii) and section 29 34 Subparagraph 8(1)(d)(ii) and section 29 of these Instructions, as they read immediately before the day on which this section takes effect, continue to apply to in respect of invitations issued to foreign nationals before that day where those invitations were issued on the basis of points assigned under that subparagraph … annual income necessary to support a group of persons consisting of a foreign national and their family members. ##### Comprehensive Ranking System factor categories **8 (1)** In accordance with these Instructions, points are assigned under the Comprehensive Ranking System to each foreign national whose expression of interest is included in the express entry pool, on the basis of the information provided in that expression of interest, according to the following categories of factors: - (a) the category of core human capital factors, namely - (i) age, - (ii) level of education, - (iii) official … arranged employment **29** (1) If a foreign national has a qualifying offer of arranged employment, they may be assigned points as follows: - (a) 200 points, if the offer is for employment in an occupation contained in Major Group 00 of the *National Occupation Classification* matrix; or - (b) 50 points, if the offer is any other qualifying offer of arranged employment. ##### Qualifying offer of arranged employment (2) A qualifying offer of employment is one of the following: - (a) an arranged employment as defined in subsection 82(1) of the Regulations, if - (i) the offer is supported by a valid … subparagraph and that section, as those provisions read immediately before that day. ### Taking Effect 4 **These Instructions take effect on March 25, 2025, but if they are given after that day, they take effect on the day on which they are given.** ## Footnotes Footnote A S.C. 2022, c. 10, s. 377(2) [Return to footnote A referrer](#fn1-rf) Footnote B S.C. 2001, c. 27 [Return to footnote B referrer](#fn2-1-rf) Footnote 1 *Canada Gazette*, [Part I, Vol. 148, Extra No. 10, December 1, 2014](https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2014/2014-12-01-x10/html/extra10-eng.html#e01) [Return to footnote 1 referrer](#fn3 …
Government of CanadaCanada.ca. Elimination of Express Entry Arranged Employment (Job Offer) Points. Effective 2025-03-25.Open official source
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