2027 Express Entry Reform Evidence Tracker

Correction notice, 3 November 2026 (version 2026-11-03.3). What was wrong in version 2026-11-03.2: E02 named only the high-wage points as taking effect, although IRCC's removal of the LMIA requirement for Express Entry job offers also took effect on 3 November 2026. E05's source link now opens the amended instructions, and the record did not say so. E06 credited the points to IRCC's announcement rather than to the amended Ministerial Instructions. E07's note went further than IRCC's research. That version's notice said internal notes were removed from Acceptance QA items 6, 7 and 8, when in fact the three items were deleted.

What changed in this version. Evidence Ledger and main CSV: E02 Current Status now names the LMIA change; E02 Notes add that IRCC has since published its final report on this consultation (page details 2026-10-15), which is not incorporated in this version; E05 Notes add that since 2026-11-03 the Exact Source URL shows the amended instructions (signed 2026-10-15), so it no longer shows the text checked on 2026-09-26; E06 Current Status and Notes name the amended Ministerial Instructions; E07 Notes now say that IRCC says the research can help inform potential changes. DA-R01-F01-Evidence-Ledger.csv and DA-R01-F02-Timeline-Data.csv: the same E02 and E06 Current Status wording. Status-board figure: the text of the E02 and E06 cards, with shorter wording for E02. 2027 Planning: the row Reform consultation status adds the same final report sentence. Methodology: a missing full stop in the CURRENT RULE row; the PROPOSAL and CONSULTATION rows add that the classification describes the source document when published and Current Status says what has happened since; internal wording removed from the ATIP DISCLOSURE row. Acceptance QA: internal wording removed from the remaining dependency of item 3. Three workbook rows are taller so the new text shows: E02, E05 and Reform consultation status. README: version, and a sentence on the final report. CITATION.bib and CITATION.ris: version and DOI. manifest.json and the ZIP were rebuilt, and the ZIP's name now carries this version. The history paragraph on version 2026-11-03, below, was also corrected.

What did not change in this version. Every other workbook cell and main CSV cell, including all 11 rows' classifications, source URLs and dates checked, the Reform Matrix, the ATIP Control sheet and the 2027 planning figures. No government figure changed. DA-R01-F02-Official-Evidence-Timeline.svg is byte-identical. The wording above was written from IRCC's changes page, the discussion paper, the Ministerial Instructions page, the labour-market research page and the final report page, each read on 3 November 2026. The dates checked in the rows were not updated, and the content of the final report was not added.

Dated record: evidence checked on 26 and 29 September 2026. IRCC's Express Entry changes effective 3 November 2026, which added a Labour Market Integration factor and reintroduced job offer points in the CRS, appear only where a row says so. Rows labelled CURRENT RULE describe the position on their check date. For today's rules see IRCC's changes page. IRCC has since published its final report on the spring 2026 consultation (page details 2026-10-15); it is not incorporated in this version.

Evidence ledger separating the Express Entry rules in force on the check date from proposals, consultations and related evidence for 2027 reform planning. It is designed to be citable and updateable, not predictive. Core evidence is traced to official Government of Canada, IRCC and Department of Justice sources. Canonical research page, methodology and change log: https://makimmigration.ca/express-entry-2027-reform-tracker/

History, not about this version: the notice for version 2026-11-03.2, what was wrong. What was wrong in version 2026-11-03: the status-board figure still filed E05 under CURRENT RULE although the ledger labels it RULE AS CHECKED 26 SEP 2026; the figure's wording for E01 and E10 was broader than the ledger's; the Reform Matrix rows for job-offer points and Canadian work experience gave the points without IRCC's rule that points come from one or the other, not both; and that version's correction notice left out some changes and read as more complete than it was.

History, not about this version: what version 2026-11-03.2 changed. Status-board figure: E05 was moved under its own heading, RULE AS CHECKED 26 SEP 2026; the E01 and E10 text was matched to the ledger; the check-date line was set to 26 and 29 September 2026; the figure's text description was made to name the new heading; the E04, E08 and E11 cards were repositioned with no text change. Reform Matrix: the rows Job-offer CRS points and Canadian work experience quality gained "IRCC: you can only receive points for Canadian work experience or an eligible job offer, not both; you get the score that gives you the higher number of CRS points." and those two rows were made taller; the link label CURRENT on the rows CRS core factors, Job-offer CRS points, Canadian work experience quality and Definition of Canadian work experience was changed to INSTRUCTIONS AS CHECKED 2026-09-26. Evidence Ledger and main CSV: the Notes for E02, E05 and E06 gained a sentence saying when the status wording on the 3 November change was added. Methodology: the State note gained that wording was corrected on 3 November 2026; the row Date checked became Dates checked and gave 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-29; the non-claim row about DA gain was deleted. ATIP Control: the rows Current tracker treatment, Reason, Current status, Required dependency and Publication rule were reworded to remove internal project wording. Acceptance QA: the evidence text of items 3 and 5 was changed, and item 5 recorded a re-open on 2026-11-03. The author of the two cell comments changed from OpenAI to MAK Canadian Immigration Services. README: version, check-date wording and one new control line. CITATION.bib and CITATION.ris: version and DOI. manifest.json and the ZIP were rebuilt, and the ZIP's name carried that version.

History, not about this version: what version 2026-11-03.2 did not change. Every other workbook cell and main CSV cell, including the 11 evidence rows' classifications, source URLs and dates checked, and the 2027 planning figures. DA-R01-F01-Evidence-Ledger.csv, DA-R01-F02-Official-Evidence-Timeline.svg and DA-R01-F02-Timeline-Data.csv were byte-identical to version 2026-11-03. For version 2026-11-03.2 only IRCC's changes page and the two Canada Gazette issue indexes were read again, on 3 November 2026.

History, not about this version: what version 2026-11-03 changed, list corrected in versions 2026-11-03.2 and 2026-11-03.3. Version 2026-11-03 replaced version 2026-10-05, which still called the job-offer and work-experience position from before 3 November 2026 "current" and "under consideration", and whose description, before the note added on 3 November 2026, carried no date. IRCC's changes page (page details 2026-10-16) says the changes apply as of 3 November 2026. Version 2026-11-03: stated the change and its date in E02, E05, E06 and the Reform Matrix rows for CRS core factors, job-offer points and Canadian work experience; changed the E02 limit from "each item is" to "each item was ... when published"; changed E05's name, source date, finding, limit and note, the note dropping its job-offer page link and gaining a changes-page link, and labelled E05 RULE AS CHECKED 26 SEP 2026; narrowed the status wording of E01 and E10 from a targeted recheck through 2026-09-29 to the two Canada Gazette issues actually checked, and added links to those issues; corrected a typo in E04 and the E09 source date; made the ledger subtitle read 26 and 29 September 2026, the row dates being already correct; deleted Acceptance QA items 6, 7 and 8 entirely, because they tracked internal handover steps (in version 2026-10-05 their results were PASS, BLOCKED - PROJECT ISOLATION and PARTIAL), leaving items 1 to 5 and 9, and removed one Methodology note; added check dates to the status-board figure; and changed "verified" to "checked" for MAK's own checks, including the column Verification Date (now Date Checked) and the Evidence Level value (now CHECKED), with one ATIP Control value changed to CONFIRMED instead. It also added the changes-page link to Reform Matrix source cells E11, E12, E13, F12 and F13; renamed Reform Matrix columns B and D; added the RULE AS CHECKED definition to the Methodology CURRENT RULE row; narrowed the Gazette wording in the Methodology FINAL LAW row; reworded it in Acceptance QA item 9 and added two links there; dropped 'methodology TXT' from Acceptance QA item 4; changed the figure's E01 date wording from 'as of 2026-09-26' to 'through 2026-09-29'; changed the README's Purpose line and dated-record text; and changed the version and DOI in the citation files. It did not change the Evidence Ledger's Exact Source URL column, the 2027 planning figures, or any ledger classification other than E05.