Built for the people inside the system,
by the people inside it.

Every year, roughly 4.8 million people worldwide begin a formal application to immigrate to Canada. They come from 180 countries. They speak 200 languages. And nearly all of them arrive at the same place: a government website with 11,000 pages, written in the particular dialect of bureaucracy that exists to inform without ever quite being clear.

The Comprehensive Ranking System—the algorithm that decides who gets invited and who keeps waiting—evaluates candidates on over 60 discrete variables. Age, education, languages, work history, spousal factors, provincial nominations, arranged employment, French ability, siblings in Canada. Each variable interacts with the others. The scoring table alone runs to 14 pages. And it changes—sometimes overnight—when a Ministerial Instruction is quietly published in the Canada Gazette.

Since Express Entry launched in January 2015, IRCC has conducted over 330 invitation rounds. The lowest CRS cutoff was 75 points. The highest was 808. The median shifts by the month, by the category, by forces that are visible only in the data and never in the press release. Provincial programs add another 80+ streams across 13 provinces and territories, each with its own eligibility matrix, its own processing times, its own backlog.

This is the landscape. And for the vast majority of applicants, the tools available to navigate it are a PDF, a FAQ, and a prayer.

Who we are

We are a small team of data scientists and software engineers. All of us have sat in front of the IRCC portal at unreasonable hours, cross-referencing draw histories in a spreadsheet, trying to reverse- engineer a system that was never designed to be understood from the outside. All of us know the feeling—the one that lives in the back of your chest—that this golden window might close before you get through it.

We started Path To PR because we got tired of guessing—and because we realized that the information we were painstakingly assembling for ourselves would be just as valuable to the 4.7 million other people asking the same questions.

We scrape every draw the moment it’s published. We track every PNP stream across every province. We built a CRS calculator that accounts for the full interaction matrix—not the simplified version, the real one, the one with the 14-page scoring table baked in. We chart the trends that IRCC doesn’t chart. We surface the patterns that only emerge when you put ten years of data in one place and actually look.

We are not immigration consultants. We are not lawyers. We do not give advice. We give you the data—all of it, structured, searchable, and free—and we trust you to make your own decisions. Because the problem was never that people couldn’t think for themselves. The problem was that no one gave them anything to think with.

The data was always public.
We just made it mean something.