Upcoming PNP draws tracker

What was the latest PNP draw?

The most recent federal Provincial Nominee Program round of invitations was Round #438 on 31 August 2026, which issued 562 invitations to apply at a Comprehensive Ranking System cut-off of 697.

Express Entry has drawn three times since without holding a further PNP round: Round #439 on 1 September (Canadian Experience Class, 2,000 invitations, cut-off 521), Round #440 on 3 September (physicians with Canadian work experience, 229 invitations, cut-off 198) and Round #441 on 4 September (healthcare and social services occupations, 3,500 invitations, cut-off 475). So #438 is the latest PNP-specific round, not the latest Express Entry draw, which is a distinction worth keeping straight. The round before it, #435 on 17 August, was also a PNP round: 442 invitations at 760. Figures read from IRCC's rounds of invitations feed on 11 September 2026, and our Express Entry draw tracker carries the full history.

Provincially, three programmes drew on 10 September 2026. British Columbia's Skills Immigration Care and Build round issued 429 invitations plus fewer than 5, with minimum scores of 99 for Care: Childcare, 76 for Care: Health, 90 for Care: Veterinary Care and 94 for Build: Construction Trades. Manitoba's EOI draw #279 issued 793 Letters of Advice to Apply, 272 of them to Express Entry candidates, with a lowest top-scoring profile of 825. Newfoundland and Labrador issued 36 invitations under its provincial nominee program. Alberta's Dedicated Health Care Pathway, Express Entry draw on 9 September 2026 invited 51 candidates at a minimum of 60 EOI points. The table further down gives the stream, the invitation count and the cut-off for each.

When is the next PNP draw?

IRCC does not publish an Express Entry draw schedule in advance, and neither does any province publish a calendar of its own PNP draws, so no date for the next round can be given.

What can be given is the observed pattern. Through 2026 the federal rounds have settled into a monthly cluster: a Provincial Nominee Program round, a Canadian Experience Class round and a French-language round within a few days of each other, plus occasional category rounds. Each province runs its own separate schedule on top of that. Alberta states plainly that AAIP draws are not regularly scheduled and are held as needed to address sector needs, and British Columbia has settled into roughly two Skills Immigration rounds a month, alternating between its Care and Build priorities and its Innovate priority. Reading the recent rounds for the stream you are actually in is the only reliable way to anticipate the next one.

What are upcoming PNP draws?

Upcoming PNP draws are the next invitation rounds a province or territory plans to hold under its Provincial Nominee Program. The province reaches into a pool of candidates, usually ranked by an Expression of Interest (EOI) score, selects a stream or category, and invites the highest-ranked candidates to apply for a provincial nomination.

A nomination is not permanent residence on its own, but it is one of the strongest steps toward it, and through an Express Entry-aligned stream it puts most candidates well above the typical federal draw cut-off. Because every province runs its own program, there is no single national PNP draw. You track each province separately.

In short, a PNP draw is a points-ranked selection round: the province sets the stream, the date and the number of invitations, and the cut-off score is simply where the line falls that day. Because every province runs its own Provincial Nominee Program, and each holds PNP draws on its own schedule, there is no national PNP draw calendar. The latest PNP draw for any region always lives on that province's official program page.

How do provincial nominee invitations and PNP draws work?

PNP draws run on an Expression of Interest model in most provinces. You submit a profile, it is scored against that province's criteria, and it sits in a pool for a set period. In each draw the province decides a stream and a number of invitations, then invites everyone above a cut-off score. The cut-off is simply the score of the lowest-ranked candidate invited that round, so it is set fresh each time and moves from draw to draw. Meeting a past cut-off does not entitle you to an invitation, because the line resets every round, and you must also meet the chosen stream's eligibility.

EOI versus Express Entry-aligned PNP draws

PNP streams come in two broad kinds, and the difference shapes your whole route to permanent residence.

Recent PNP draws by province

The table below gives the most recent published round for each of the major programs, with the stream, the number of invitations and the cut-off score. Each figure comes from the programme's own page, and the dedicated trackers behind each row are our AAIP draw tracker, BC PNP draw tracker, OINP draw tracker and MPNP draw tracker.

Four rows need a word of explanation. Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador are the two programmes in the table that publish no cut-off at all: Prince Edward Island invites on priority occupations rather than a score, so its row records the round date and the running invitation count instead, and our Prince Edward Island PNP guide sets out which sectors it has been drawing from. Newfoundland and Labrador issues invitations in batches and publishes only the count, split between its provincial nominee program and the Atlantic Immigration Program (gov.nl.ca, updated 10 September 2026). Ontario removed its eight worker and graduate streams on 25 June 2026 and opened the expression of interest portal for its single Ontario Workforce Priority stream on 4 August 2026, and as of 11 September 2026 the ontario.ca programme updates page had published no invitation round under the new stream, so 30 April 2026 remains the last published round. Saskatchewan last selected International Skilled Worker Expression of Interest profiles on 12 September 2024 and has not formally closed the draws, so profiles can sit in the pool while saskatchewan.ca states there are no scheduled EOI draws at this time.

Why do PNP cut-offs differ so much between provinces?

Each province draws from its own pool, with its own scoring system, allocation and demand, so cut-offs are not comparable across programs. A score that wins an invitation in one province's stream means nothing in another, because the scales and criteria differ. Targeted streams aimed at in-demand occupations or tech talent often sit higher, while community-focused or rural streams can land lower. Always read a cut-off in the context of the specific province and stream it came from.

How often do provinces hold PNP draws?

Alberta draws most often of any province: the AAIP held 74 draws between January and 9 September 2026, issuing more than 12,700 invitations against a 6,603 nomination allocation (alberta.ca, AAIP processing information, last updated 9 September 2026).

The rest sit well below that. British Columbia holds roughly two Skills Immigration rounds a month, alternating its Care and Build priorities with its Innovate priority. Manitoba runs expression of interest draws about fortnightly, numbered #270 to #279 so far in 2026. Ontario held 24 targeted draws between February and April 2026 and then paused for its stream redesign. Saskatchewan has held no International Skilled Worker Expression of Interest selection since 12 September 2024. Smaller provinces and the territories draw less often again.

The pace is driven by each province's annual nomination allocation and the demand sitting in each stream pool, not by a published national schedule. As allocations are used up through the year, competition firms up and cut-offs can rise, so timing matters. The latest AAIP draws and the latest Express Entry draws have their own trackers, re-dated after each official round.

How Wild Mountain Immigration helps you target the right PNP draw

Working under a licensed RCIC (CICC #R706497), our team matches your profile to the provinces and streams where you are most competitive, sets a provincial route against your federal Express Entry / CRS standing, and prepares a complete EOI or application for the streams you actually qualify for.

In our home province, that includes the Alberta AAIP, and across Canada it spans BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Manitoba and more. Before we map a provincial route, many candidates start with our free CRS calculator or a quick eligibility check to see where they stand. We work entirely online. Every figure on this page was read from the programmes' own published records on 11 September 2026, and provincial streams, allocations and cut-off scores change constantly, so we re-check them before advising you on which upcoming PNP draws are worth targeting.