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Week of May 2: Transita launches MCP server, EU Blue Card thresholds shift, Canada Express Entry tweaks
First weekly digest. The headline this week is our own MCP server launch, alongside two policy items worth tracking: Germany's EU Blue Card salary threshold update and a Canada Express Entry category-based draw shift.
This is the first entry in Transita's weekly immigration digest. Going forward you'll get one of these every Friday — short, sourced, no filler.
Transita is now an MCP server
We shipped @transita/mcp-server to npm and the Model Context Protocol Registry. You can now ask Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Zed, or any MCP-compatible AI assistant "where should I move?" and get a real, sourced answer powered by Transita's matcher.
Five tools (match, details, compare, country overview, search by nationality), four resources, three guided prompts. All free. Install is one config edit — full instructions on the /mcp landing page.
Germany — EU Blue Card salary threshold (rumour)
The Bundesagentur für Arbeit circulated a draft adjusting the 2026 EU Blue Card salary minimum upward in line with the average gross salary recalculation. Final figures haven't published; expect the standard threshold to land near €48,300 and the shortage-occupation threshold near €43,759.
If you've matched the German EU Blue Card on Transita, your match score isn't affected today — we'll re-verify and update the database the moment the official numbers land. Watch make-it-in-germany.com for the official announcement.
Canada — Express Entry category-based draw cadence
IRCC has been running more category-based draws in 2026 than general draws — particularly for healthcare, STEM, and French-speakers. If your Express Entry CRS score is in the 480-510 range, your real draw odds depend more on which category you're eligible for than on your raw CRS.
The IRCC Express Entry rounds page is the authoritative source for invited cutoffs. Your Transita match score for Express Entry already weights category eligibility, but if you've changed jobs or completed French-language testing recently, re-running the quiz will reflect the new score.
Quiet weeks
The US and UK had no material policy movement worth flagging this week. We won't pad these digests with non-news — when the only honest thing to say is "nothing changed," that's what we'll say.
— The Transita team