Canada announces major changes to Express Entry categories from 1st March, 2025

Highlights: Canada declares new changes to Express Entry categories from 1 March 2025

• Canada introduced new changes to Express Entry categories from 1 March 2025.
• IRCC declared the recent Express Entry Category for 27 February 2025.
• The new category announced in 2025 was Education, which was listed in the Express Entry.
• IRCC also added several social service occupations to the healthcare category.
   

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New categories for Express Entry

Canada introduced new changes to category-based draws, which is introducing a new category after removing others. The new category in 2025 is Education, which is listed under this new category. Transport is now excluded from the list from the category-based draw. IRCC has also added several social services occupations to the healthcare category. The recent Express Entry categories listed on the IRCC website are:
 

• Healthcare and Social service occupations
• French-language proficiency
• Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) occupations
• Agriculture and agri-food occupation
• Trades occupations
• Education occupations
   

Though IRCC announced the priority streams of Express Entry categories in 2025:

• French Language proficiency
• Trades occupation
• Education occupation
• These categories will be prioritized for ITAs via the category-based draws within the Express Entry System.
   

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IRCC also introduced other changes to Express Entry categories

The previously included Express Entry categories have significantly changed eligible occupations. Below is the table that categorizes several occupations that have been added and removed:

Category name	Number of occupations added	Number of occupations removed
Healthcare and Social Services occupations	8	6
Science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations	6	19
Trade occupations	19	4
Agriculture and Agri-food occupations	0	2

 

IRCC determines Express Entry categories, considering economic and demographic goals. Most of the occupation-based categorises follow the Canadian labor market's need to increase the number of skilled professionals in critical areas. For French Language proficiency, the goal is to promote the French language outside of Quebec.
 

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