Latest Manitoba MPNP Draw: Current Cut-Off Scores, Recent Rounds, and What Changed (2026, Continuously Updated)

The latest MPNP draw was Expression of Interest Draw #281 on October 8, 2026, which issued 340 Letters of Advice to Apply across several Manitoba selections. This page is a continuously updated record of every 2026 Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP) draw: the round dates, how many candidates were invited, which streams were targeted, and the rare cut-off scores Manitoba actually publishes. All figures below were verified against Manitoba's official Expression of Interest draw pages on October 9, 2026. Because the MPNP updates its results without a fixed schedule, treat the official pages as the final word and use this hub to see the pattern.

The latest MPNP draw and every 2026 round

Manitoba runs its draws through an Expression of Interest (EOI) system. Instead of a public CRS-style ranking with one cut-off, the MPNP issues Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs) to candidates it selects, often across multiple sub-selections in a single draw. The table below lists every 2026 MPNP draw to date, newest first.

Draw	Date	Selections in this draw	LAAs issued	Lowest score published	Express Entry-linked LAAs
#281	October 8, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (health occupations; education occupations); Skilled Worker Stream	340	Not published	103
#280	September 24, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (physicians; natural and applied sciences top-scoring); Francophone; Skilled Worker Stream	474	760 (natural and applied sciences)	148
#279	September 10, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (health occupations); Francophone; Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba (top-scoring); Skilled Worker Stream	793	825 (post-secondary study in Manitoba)	272
#278	August 27, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (physicians; bus drivers and transit operators; technical trades and transportation top-scoring); Francophone; Skilled Worker Stream	741	731 (technical trades and transportation)	150
#277	August 13, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream (strategic recruitment)	53	Not published	6
#276	July 30, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (occupation-specific + manufacturing and utilities top-scoring); Francophone; Skilled Worker Stream	766	632 (manufacturing and utilities)	94
#275	July 16, 2026	International Education Stream (GIP); Skilled Worker in Manitoba (physicians); Francophone; Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba (top-scoring); Skilled Worker Stream	2,146	825 (post-secondary study in Manitoba)	825
#274	July 2, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream (strategic recruitment)	77	Not published	15
#273	June 18, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	124	Not published	22
#272	June 4, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	104	Not published	15
#271	May 21, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	96	Not published	20
#270	May 7, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (education occupations); Skilled Worker Stream	906	Not published	326
#269	April 23, 2026	Skilled Worker in Manitoba (health occupations); Skilled Worker Stream	308	Not published	105
#268	April 9, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	32	Not published	8
#267	March 26, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	14	Not published	3
#266	March 12, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	46	Not published	5
#265	February 26, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	72	Not published	11
#264	February 12, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	29	Not published	6
#263	January 29, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	47	Not published	6
#262	January 15, 2026	Skilled Worker Stream	55	Not published	10

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draws (immigratemanitoba.com/draws), verified October 2026.

Two things jump out of that table. First, the size of a draw swings enormously, from 14 invitations in March to 2,146 in mid-July. Second, most rounds show Not published in the score column. That is not missing data. It is how Manitoba works, and it is the single most misunderstood thing about the MPNP draw.

Draw-by-draw analysis

This is Ansari Immigration's reading of the numbers in each recent Manitoba round, newest first. Figures come from the official draw pages. Manitoba selects by occupation and connection block, not by a single cut-off, and a Letter of Advice to Apply is an invitation to apply, not a nomination.

Draw #281 - October 8, 2026: 340 Letters of Advice to Apply, led by 211 for education occupations

Manitoba issued 340 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs) in Draw #281 on October 8, 2026, and an LAA is an invitation to apply to the MPNP, not a nomination. The official page lists 46 LAAs for health occupations, 211 for four education unit groups and 83 for the Skilled Worker Stream, and its text shows no lowest-ranked score for any of the three.

Selection	LAAs	Lowest score published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, occupation-specific: Broad Occupational Category 3, health occupations	46	Not published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, occupation-specific: education unit groups 41220, 41221, 42202 and 43100 (secondary school teachers; elementary and kindergarten teachers; early childhood educators and assistants; elementary and secondary school teacher assistants)	211	Not published
Skilled Worker Stream, strategic recruitment initiatives	83	Not published

Versus the previous draw: Draw #280 on September 24 issued 474 LAAs, so this round was 134 smaller and came 14 days later. Express Entry-linked LAAs fell from 148 to 103, a drop of 45. The last health occupations selection was in #279 with 233 LAAs, against 46 now. The last draw with an education occupations selection was #270 on May 7, which issued 906 LAAs across the whole round, 154 days earlier. The last published score was 760 in #280 (natural and applied sciences); this round published none.

Year to date: 20 draws and 7,223 LAAs so far, with 5 of the 20 draws (#275, #276, #278, #279 and #280) publishing a score. In #281, 103 of the 340 LAAs (30.3%) went to candidates who declared a valid Express Entry profile number and job seeker validation code.

What this signals: education occupations took 62% of the draw (211 of 340), a selection the hub has not seen since #270, while the Skilled Worker Stream block grew from 40 LAAs to 83. That block is limited, in the page's own description, to profiles directly invited by the MPNP under a strategic recruitment initiative, and Employer Services supplied 45 of its 83 LAAs.

Who this helps and who it does not: the health and education selections applied only to profiles declaring current employment in Manitoba in the listed unit groups. There was no Francophone selection and no post-secondary graduate selection in this round, so those candidates were reached only if they held a strategic recruitment initiative invitation. That block came through Employer Services (45), Ethnocultural Communities (9), Francophone Community (16), Regional Communities (12) and the TPP (1). Candidates with an EE profile number and job seeker validation code can be picked up in the EE-linked LAAs.

What to do this week: if you work in Manitoba as a teacher, early childhood educator, teacher assistant or in a health occupation, check that your NOC unit group, employer details and language results in your EOI match your documents, because selection runs on declared information. Draws have come about every 14 days, but Manitoba publishes no calendar, so watch the official page rather than a predicted date. If you cannot tell which block fits your profile, the 30-minute, $80 consultation with our licensed RCIC (booking button further down this page) is the place to start.

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draw #281, verified October 9, 2026, 9:26 a.m. Pacific.

Draw #280 - September 24, 2026: 474 Letters of Advice to Apply, led by 417 in natural and applied sciences at 760

Manitoba issued 474 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs) in Draw #280 on September 24, 2026, and an LAA is an invitation to apply to the MPNP, not a nomination.

Selection	LAAs	Lowest score published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, occupation-specific (NOC 31102, general practitioners and family physicians)	1	Not published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, top-scoring: Broad Occupational Category 2, natural and applied sciences and related occupations	417	760
Francophone selection	16	Not published
Skilled Worker Stream, strategic recruitment initiatives	40	Not published

Versus the previous draw: Draw #279 on September 10 issued 793 LAAs, so this round was 319 smaller and came 14 days later. Express Entry-linked LAAs fell from 272 to 148, a drop of 124. The last Francophone selection was in #279 with 11 LAAs; this one had 16. The last published score was 825 in #279, but it belonged to a different pool (Manitoba post-secondary graduates), so 760 and 825 cannot be compared as one scale.

Year to date: this record now holds 19 draws and 6,883 LAAs, and 5 of those 19 draws (#275, #276, #278, #279 and #280) published a score. In #280, 148 of the 474 LAAs (31.2%) went to candidates who declared a valid Express Entry profile number and job seeker validation code.

What this signals: 88% of the draw (417 of 474) sat in one top-scoring occupational category, so this was a round about a single category, not a general one. The Skilled Worker Stream block is limited, in the page's own description, to profiles directly invited by the MPNP under a strategic recruitment initiative, and Regional Communities supplied 15 of its 40 LAAs.

Who this helps and who it does not: the 760 floor applied only to profiles declaring current employment in Manitoba in a natural and applied sciences occupation. Francophone profiles with a valid French test result had their own selection of 16. The strategic block reached invitees through Employer Services (9), Ethnocultural Communities (9), Francophone Community (6), Regional Communities (15) and the TPP (1). There was no post-secondary graduate selection in this round, and candidates with an EE profile number and job seeker validation code can be picked up in the EE-linked LAAs.

What to do this week: check that the NOC unit group, employer details and language results in your EOI match your documents, because selection runs on declared information. Compare your score with 760 only if you work in that category. If you cannot tell which block fits your profile, the 30-minute, $80 consultation with our licensed RCIC (booking button further down this page) is the place to start.

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draw #280, verified October 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m. Pacific.

Draw #279 - September 10, 2026: 793 Letters of Advice to Apply, led by 508 for Manitoba post-secondary graduates at 825

Draw #279 on September 10, 2026 issued 793 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs), an invitation to apply to the MPNP and not a nomination, with the largest block going to candidates who completed post-secondary study in Manitoba.

Selection	LAAs	Lowest score published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, Broad Occupational Category 3 (health occupations)	233	Not published
Francophone selection	11	Not published
Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba (top-scoring)	508	825
Skilled Worker Stream, strategic recruitment initiatives	41	Not published

Versus the previous draw: Draw #278 on August 27 issued 741 LAAs, so #279 was 52 larger, 14 days later, and Express Entry-linked LAAs rose by 122 (150 to 272). The last post-secondary selection was in #275 on July 16: 1,874 LAAs at 825. This one was 1,366 LAAs smaller at the same 825 floor. The last health-occupation round in the table above was #269 on April 23, a 308-LAA draw; #279 put 233 LAAs into the health block alone.

Year to date: 18 draws and 6,409 LAAs so far, with 4 of the 18 draws publishing a score. Express Entry-linked LAAs were 272 of 793, or 34.3%, the highest share of the four draws added in this update.

What this signals: the floor for Manitoba post-secondary graduates was 825 in both #275 and #279, so that pool has cleared at the same number twice this year. The health block considered all profiles declaring current employment in Manitoba in that category, and no score was published for it.

Who this helps and who it does not: graduates (or spouses of graduates) with Manitoba post-secondary study were the score-ranked pool, health workers employed in Manitoba had a category-wide selection, and Francophone profiles had 11 LAAs. The strategic recruitment block of 41 split into Employer Services (17), Ethnocultural Communities (7), Francophone Community (12), Regional Communities (3) and the TPP (2). A skilled worker in another occupation, with no Manitoba study and no strategic invitation, had no dedicated selection.

What to do this week: if you studied in Manitoba, confirm that your education details are entered exactly as your credential reads, since that block was selected by declared study and score. If you work in a health occupation, make sure your employment declaration is current. If you cannot tell which block fits your profile, the 30-minute, $80 consultation with our licensed RCIC (booking button further down this page) is the place to start.

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draw #279, verified October 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m. Pacific.

Draw #278 - August 27, 2026: 741 Letters of Advice to Apply, led by 600 in technical trades and transportation at 731

Manitoba issued 741 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs) in Draw #278 on August 27, 2026; an LAA invites a candidate to apply to the MPNP and is not a nomination.

Selection	LAAs	Lowest score published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, occupation-specific (NOC 31102 general practitioners and family physicians; 73301 bus drivers and transit operators)	62	Not published
Skilled Worker in Manitoba, top-scoring: major group 72, technical trades and transportation officers and controllers	600	731
Francophone selection	21	Not published
Skilled Worker Stream, strategic recruitment initiatives	58	Not published

Versus the previous draw: Draw #277 on August 13 issued only 53 LAAs, so #278 was 688 larger, again 14 days later, and Express Entry-linked LAAs rose from 6 to 150. The last draw with a published score was #276 (632 for manufacturing and utilities). The 731 floor here is 99 points higher, but it belongs to a different occupational pool. The last Francophone selection in the table above was in #276; this round issued 21.

Year to date: 17 draws and 5,616 LAAs so far, with 3 of the 17 draws (#275, #276 and #278) publishing a score. Express Entry-linked LAAs were 150 of 741, or 20.2%.

What this signals: 81% of the draw (600 of 741) was one top-scoring occupational group, so the total jumped from 53 LAAs to 741 on the strength of a single category. The strategic block of 58 was led by Employer Services with 28 of its LAAs.

Who this helps and who it does not: profiles declaring current employment in Manitoba in major group 72 were ranked and invited from the top down to 731; physicians and bus drivers or transit operators were selected as named unit groups; Francophone profiles had their own 21. The strategic block of 58 reached Employer Services (28), Ethnocultural Communities (4), Francophone Community (16), Regional Communities (7) and the TPP (3) invitees. Other occupations and Manitoba graduates had no dedicated selection that day.

What to do this week: if your work is in technical trades or transportation, check that your declared NOC code and employer details are accurate, since the ranked selection runs on what you declared. If you cannot tell which block fits your profile, the 30-minute, $80 consultation with our licensed RCIC (booking button further down this page) is the place to start.

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draw #278, verified October 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m. Pacific.

Draw #277 - August 13, 2026: 53 Letters of Advice to Apply, all in the Skilled Worker Stream strategic recruitment block

Draw #277 on August 13, 2026 issued just 53 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs), all in the Skilled Worker Stream block, and an LAA is an invitation to apply to the MPNP, not a nomination.

Selection	LAAs	Lowest score published
Skilled Worker Stream, strategic recruitment initiatives (Employer Services 15; Ethnocultural Communities 12; Francophone Community 13; Regional Communities 9; TPP 4)	53	Not published

Versus the previous draw: Draw #276 on July 30 issued 766 LAAs, so #277 was 713 smaller (about 93% fewer), 14 days later, and Express Entry-linked LAAs dropped from 94 to 6. The last draw made up only of Skilled Worker Stream invitations was #274 on July 2, with 77 LAAs, so this round was 24 below it.

Year to date: 16 draws and 4,875 LAAs so far, with 2 of the 16 draws (#275 and #276) having published a score. Only 6 of the 53 LAAs (11.3%) went to candidates with a valid Express Entry profile number and job seeker validation code, and #277 is one of seven draws this year with fewer than 60 LAAs.

What this signals: a round with no occupation, graduate or Francophone selection and no score is not unusual: 11 of the 15 earlier draws this year were Skilled Worker Stream only. The page describes this block as profiles that declared being directly invited by the MPNP under a strategic recruitment initiative, so it was not open to other EOI profiles.

Who this helps and who it does not: it helped only candidates who had already received an Invitation to Apply through a recruitment initiative (employers, ethnocultural communities, the Francophone community, regional communities, or the TPP). Skilled workers, graduates and Francophone profiles without such an invitation were not in this draw.

What to do this week: a quiet round does not change the basics: keep your EOI complete and accurate and watch for the next occupation or graduate selection. If you cannot tell which block fits your profile, the 30-minute, $80 consultation with our licensed RCIC (booking button further down this page) is the place to start.

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Expression of Interest Draw #277, verified October 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m. Pacific.

The 2026 MPNP draws that published a cut-off score

Unlike Express Entry, most Manitoba draws do not publish a ranking score at all. A round of the Skilled Worker Stream simply invites candidates the MPNP has already flagged through a strategic recruitment initiative, so there is no cut-off to report. A score appears only when Manitoba runs a top-scoring selection inside a draw, ranking a specific pool and inviting from the top down. In 2026, that has happened in five draws so far: #275, #276, #278, #279 and #280.

Draw	Date	Top-scoring selection that published a score	Lowest-ranked score invited	LAAs in that selection
#275	July 16, 2026	Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba	825	1,874
#276	July 30, 2026	Manufacturing and utilities (broad occupational category 9)	632	605
#278	August 27, 2026	Technical trades and transportation officers and controllers (major group 72)	731	600
#279	September 10, 2026	Completed post-secondary study in Manitoba	825	508
#280	September 24, 2026	Natural and applied sciences (broad occupational category 2)	760	417

Source: Manitoba Immigration, EOI Draw #275, #276, #278, #279 and #280, verified October 2026.

If you are searching for an MPNP draw score, these numbers are almost certainly what you are after, and the context matters: 825 applied only to candidates with completed post-secondary study in Manitoba (in both #275 and #279), 760 applied only to a natural and applied sciences group, 731 only to technical trades and transportation, and 632 only to a manufacturing and utilities occupation group. None is a general pass mark, and none carries over to the next draw.

How to read an MPNP draw

Here is the practitioner reading of the numbers above, because the raw totals mislead people who are used to Express Entry.

Most Manitoba draws are invitation-based, not score-based. In a Skilled Worker Stream round, the MPNP issues LAAs to candidates who declared they were directly invited under a strategic recruitment initiative: Employer Services, Ethnocultural Communities, Francophone Community, Regional Communities, or the Temporary Public Policy that facilitates work permits for prospective candidates. If you were not part of one of those initiatives, a 124-invitation Skilled Worker Stream draw was never going to include you, no matter how strong your profile is.

The draws that do rank and publish a score are the occupation-specific and top-scoring selections. Draw #276 ranked a manufacturing and utilities pool and published 632. Draw #275 ranked candidates with Manitoba post-secondary study and published 825. Those are the rounds where your points actually compete against other candidates, and they are the rounds worth studying if you have a genuine Manitoba connection.

Watching the Express Entry-linked column is also useful. When a large share of a draw goes to candidates who declared a valid Express Entry profile, that draw is quietly feeding the federal pool with 600-point provincial nominations. Draw #270 sent 326 of its 906 LAAs to Express Entry-linked candidates; Draw #275 sent 825. That is the Manitoba-to-Express-Entry bridge doing its work.

MPNP fees, timelines, and what happens after a Letter of Advice to Apply

A Letter of Advice to Apply is not a nomination. It is an invitation to submit a full application, and it starts a clock. The table below sets out the fixed rules that apply once you are selected in an MPNP draw.

Item	Detail
Time to apply after an LAA	60 days from the date of the LAA
MPNP application fee	CAD $500, non-refundable
MPNP processing commitment	Currently exceeding 6 months from submission date
After nomination	Apply to IRCC for permanent residence within 180 days
Minimum English (general)	Canadian Language Benchmark 4 (many occupations require more)
Business Investor Stream EOI draws	Not currently being conducted; all EOIs reviewed within 4 weeks

Source: Manitoba Immigration, Letter of Advice to Apply and Application Assessment pages, verified August 2026.

The path is EOI profile, then an LAA in a draw, then a full application within 60 days with the $500 fee, then assessment, then a nomination certificate, and finally a separate permanent residence application to the federal government within 180 days of nomination. Each step is its own timeline. The MPNP's own processing commitment is now beyond six months, and the federal permanent residence stage that follows is entirely separate.

What an MPNP draw means for your Express Entry strategy

A Manitoba provincial nomination adds 600 points to your Express Entry Comprehensive Ranking System score, which in practice guarantees an invitation in a later federal draw. That is why the Express Entry-linked column matters so much: candidates who keep a valid Express Entry profile and declare it in their EOI can turn a Manitoba selection into a near-certain federal invitation. If you are weighing provinces, it is worth reading our latest Express Entry draw hub alongside this one to see how the two systems feed each other, and comparing Manitoba's pattern with the latest AAIP draws in Alberta and the latest BC PNP draw in British Columbia.

Manitoba's own Provincial Nominee Program route and the federal Express Entry route are not either-or. Many candidates run an Express Entry profile and a Manitoba EOI at the same time, precisely so a provincial selection can lift a middling federal score over the line toward permanent residence.

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What to do if your occupation or connection was not targeted

If draw after draw passes you by, the table is telling you something specific. The Skilled Worker Stream rounds only reach candidates already invited through a recruitment initiative, and the occupation-specific selections only reach declared Manitoba employment in the named categories. Three practical moves follow from that.

First, make sure your EOI is complete and accurate. Manitoba repeatedly notes that candidates who meet a draw's criteria still miss out because they did not enter a valid language test number or a valid invitation number. An incomplete profile is invisible to the selection.

Second, build a genuine Connection to Manitoba. The MPNP assesses whether your ties to Manitoba, through employment, family, past study or work, or a recruitment mission, are stronger than your ties to any other province, and it can refuse an application that cannot show that. A real connection is what moves you from never selected to in the pool that gets ranked.

Third, be honest about fit before you pay the $500 fee and commit to a 60-day application sprint. If your occupation is not in demand and you have no Manitoba tie, another province or the federal Express Entry route may be the better path, and that is exactly the kind of call worth getting a straight answer on before you spend money.

Frequently asked questions about the MPNP draw

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