Express Entry Draw #267 | Agriculture & Agri-Food Category

Last Updated On 8 May 2024, 1:15 PM EDT (Toronto Time)

IRCC unveiled the new Express Entry draw, first-ever, for profiles with experience in agriculture and agri-food occupations on September 28, 2023.

Below are the full details of the targeted Express Entry draw for agriculture and agri-food occupations.

Number of invitations issued: 600
Rank required to be invited to apply: 600 or above
Date and time of round: September 28, 2023, at 16:45:09 UTC
CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 354
Tie-breaking rule: June 12, 2023, at 10:23:21 UTC

With these new rounds of invitations, Canada will be able to attract the qualified people it needs, with a focus on applicants with expertise in the agriculture and agri-food industries, such as retail and wholesale butchers, farm supervisors, and agricultural service contractors.

This new Express Entry round of invitations targets individuals with at least 6 months of experience in one of the below-listed occupations.

82031 – Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services

Example job titles:
- Greenhouse supervisor
- Grounds maintenance contractor
- Groundskeeping supervisor
- Horticulture workers supervisor
- Interior plantscaping contractor
- Landscaping contractor
- Landscaping foreman/woman
- Landscaping supervisor
- Lawn care contractor
- Nursery foreman/woman
- Park maintenance supervisor
- Tree service contractor

82030 – Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors

Example job titles:
- Artificial insemination service contractor
- Crop harvesting service contractor
- Farm foreman/woman
- Farm supervisor
- Feedlot foreman/woman
- Hog operation supervisor
- Livestock breeding service contractor
- Poultry farm foreman/woman
- Ranch foreman/woman
- Vegetable farm foreman/woman

63201 – Butchers – retail and wholesale

Example job titles:
- Apprentice butcher – retail or wholesale
- Butcher – butcher shop
- Head butcher – wholesale
- Retail butcher

Our Expectation from this new Express Entry draw

We are expecting that the number of invitations may stay between 500 and 700, and the IRCC will be unveiling details of this draw tomorrow.

With only 3 occupations eligible for the Agriculture and Agri-Food round of invitations, we expect to see the lowest CRS cutoff score ever among the category-based Express Entry draws.

Canada maintains its commitment to attracting top talent from across the world and assisting in addressing the need for workers in agriculture and agri-food to boost the economy through the Agri-Food Pilot and category-based selection.

By giving priority to inviting qualified immigrants with past work experience in agriculture and agri-food positions, Canada hopes to address the growing need for talent and staff in critical roles that progress the country’s farming and food processing industries.

All The Express Entry draws – September 2023

Date	Round type	Invitations issued	CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited
September 28, 2023	Targeted for 3 Agriculture and Agri-food occupations	600	354
September 27, 2023	Targeted for profiles having level 7 in French	500	472
September 26, 2023	No Program Specified	3,000	504
September 20, 2023	Targeted for 10 Transportation occupations	1,000	435
September 19, 2023	No Program Specified	3,200	531

Express Entry draws September 2023

What is Express Entry?

Express Entry system is Canada’s most popular and fastest way of geting Canadian Permanent Residency (PR) through one of the programs managed by this application management system.

Individuals can immigrate to Canada through its Federal Skilled Worker Program, the Canadian Experience Class, the Federal Skilled Trades Program, and some parts of the Provincial Nominee Program.

What are Express Entry category-based selections?

On May 31, 2023, former Immigration Minister, Sean Fraser announced the introduction of a new procedure called category-based selection, which will allow qualified immigrants with work experience in 82 occupations to have better odds of becoming permanent residents filling in the existing labour market gaps in one of the below listed sectors:

1. Healthcare Occupations
2. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) occupations
3. Trade occupations
4. Transport occupations
5. Agriculture and agri-food occupations

Satinder Bains

Satinder brings expertise, knowledge, and experience related to internal work flows at IRCC. She worked at Canadian Consulate in Chandigarh before moving to Canada. Her articles on “Chinook – An internal IRCC tool used to bulk process temporary applications” was one of the notable work on our news website