Latest provincial nominee draws

A PNP draw is a round in which a province invites the top-ranked people in its own pool to apply for a provincial nomination. Each province scores registrations on its own scale: BC out of 200 points, Manitoba out of 1,000. The invitation lets you apply to the province. A nomination is a recommendation, and IRCC makes the final permanent residence decision.

It varies: no province publishes a draw schedule, so only the past pace is known. In the rows on this page, BC held rounds on 20 dates between May 6 and October 29, 2026, Alberta on 74 dates since March 24, and Manitoba on 15 dates since April 23. Ontario's most recent round was on April 30, 2026. Saskatchewan lists no scheduled EOI draws.

BC ranks Skills Immigration registrations in its SIRS system, out of 200 points, and invites the top registrations in general or targeted rounds. In 2026 it invited by priority category (Care, Build and Innovate), and some rounds used a wage threshold with no minimum score. Its latest round on this page was on October 29, 2026. The minimum score changes from round to round.

Ontario closed its eight former OINP streams on June 25, 2026 and replaced them with the Ontario Workforce Priority stream, which uses expressions of interest and opened its portal on August 4, 2026. As of November 11, 2026, it had held no round under that stream, so the latest Ontario round on this page is from April 30, 2026. The stream is for people with a full-time permanent job offer in Ontario, plus self-employed physicians.

It depends on the stream. An enhanced nomination, accepted in your Express Entry profile, adds 600 CRS points, and IRCC invites nominees in rounds held only for them: 21 in 2026, with cutoffs from 697 to 805. A base nomination leads to a permanent residence application made directly to IRCC. IRCC's published processing time is about 7 months through Express Entry and 13 months outside it. An IRCC officer decides.

No. Each province scores on its own scale, and none of those scores is a CRS score. BC scores out of 200, Manitoba ranks profiles out of 1,000, and Alberta uses its own Expression of Interest score, with 2026 minimums on this page from 45 to 73. A provincial score decides whom the province invites; the CRS decides whom IRCC invites in Express Entry.

Yes, you can register or submit an expression of interest in more than one provincial program, but you can accept only one provincial nomination at a time. If more than one province nominates you, you choose one and withdraw from the others. Enhanced streams also need an active Express Entry profile. Each province's own page sets its rules on this.