How Federal Skilled Worker Program eligibility is (67/100) is different from CRS?
Please help me understand this.
1/ To be eligible to apply under the FSW program, you need to reach at least 67 points out of 100. These points are gained based on selection factors, namely education, language, work experience, etc... If you reach 67 points or more, you will enter the pool of candidates once you submit your EE profile. This is the eligibility selection factors.
Find the eligiblity tool here:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/come-canada-tool.html
2/ When submitting your EE profile, you're eligible, and you're in the pool, you will be assessed and ranked against all other candidates based on all the information you have entered, and you will be given a
CRS (Comprehensive Ranking System)
score. Your rank will depend on this score, ranging between 0 and 1200. Every once in a while IRCC will send out a specific number of invitations in what is called "Rounds of invitations". In the last draw for instance (FSW draw Sept 19th), 3500 invitations (ITA) were sent out, and the score of the 3500th ranked candidate is determined in what is known as the "cut-off" score. In the last draw, this cut-off was 441. Anyone below this score won't receive an invitation. How they determine the cutoff if many candidates have exactly 441, let's leave that for another day.
Find your possible CRS score here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/crs-tool.asp
In conclusion:
67 point scale is to determine eligibility
CRS score is to rank candidates in the pool, and send invitations to the highest ranked ones
Cheers.
