On July 13, 2021, British Columbia held a new draw in the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Tech Program (BC PNP Tech). In this draw, the province invited 56 candidates in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. The lowest score in all categories traditionally was 80 points. In 2021, British Columbia invited

On July 6, 2021, British Columbia conducted two draws in the Skills Immigration (SI) and Express Entry British Columbia (EEBC) categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BCPNP). In the general draw, the province issued 342 invitations. Skills Immigration Skilled Worker 92 (-1 point) Skills Immigration International Graduate 83 (-2 point) Skills Immigration Entry Level and Semi-Skilled 75 Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker 91

On June 15, 2021, British Columbia issued 13 invitations to apply for the candidates under Business Immigration streams. In the Entrepreneur Immigration – Regional Pilot, BC invited less than five candidates and the lowest score was 139. In the Base Category of the Entrepreneur Stream, BCPNP issued 9 invitations and the lowest score was 126. Both streams aimed to attract foreign entrepreneurs into British Columbia via the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BCPNP) pr

On June 1, 2021, B.C. invited 68 workers in the technology and information technology sector to apply for a provincial nomination. In this draw, the province invited 68 candidates in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. The lowest score in all categories traditionally was 80 points. In 2021, British Columbia inv

On August 31, 2020, the government of the province announced that it will keep the temporary policy of exclusion of 31 NOCs from participation in the BCPNP draws. Beginning March 30, the following 31 NOCs were banned from BCPNP: 0621, 0631, 0632, 0651, 3236, 6211, 6311, 6313, 6321, 6322, 6341, 6421, 6511, 6512, 6513, 6521, 6522, 6523, 6524, 6525, 6531, 6532, 6533, 6562, 6564, 6611, 6621, 6711, 6721, 6722, and 6731. According to the officials, all those NOCs are in tourism, ho

On July 14, 2020, the government of British Columbia conducted a new round of invitations in the Skills Immigration (SI) and Express Entry British Columbia (EEBC) categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BCPNP). BC invited 320 candidates to apply for a nomination. The lowest scores in this draw again reduced: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 98 Skills Immigration - International Graduate 98 (-2 points) Skills Immigration - Entry Level and Semi-Skilled

On June 23, 2020, British Columbia held a new draw in the Tech Pilot of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). This time, the province distributed 87 invitations in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. The lowest score in all categories has dropped by from 82 points to 80 points. In total

On June 16, 2020, British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program invited 276 candidates in the new draw in the Skills Immigration (SI) and Express Entry British Columbia (EEBC) categories. The lowest scores in the EEBC category have somewhat reduced: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 100 Skills Immigration - International Graduate 100 Skills Immigration - Entry Level and Semi-Skilled 80 (-1 point) Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker 100 (-5 points) Express Entry Br

On March 17, 2020, British Columbia held a new round in the BC Tech Pilot of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). In the new draw, the provincial authorities invited 87 registrants in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. This was the largest draw in the Tech Pilot since it’s launch. The

On October 29, 2019, British Columbia conducted a new round of invitations under the Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). The province invited 413 candidates to apply for the provincial nomination. The scores of this round slightly decreased in three streams: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 93 (-1 point) Skills Immigration - International Graduate 100 (+1 point) Skills Immigration - E

On October 15, 2019, the government of British Columbia held a new draw under Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). This time, 277 candidates received invitations to apply for the provincial nomination. The scores of this round slightly increased for all categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 94 (+2 points) Skills Immigration - International Graduate 99 (+2 points) Skills Immigrat

On October 8, 2019, British Columbia conducted a new invitation round in the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) Tech Pilot. In this round, BC invited 64 candidates in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. The lowest score in all four categories traditionally was 90 points. This year, Britis

On October 3, 2019, British Columbia added a special page about the immigration fraud and scams to the website of the BC PNP. The goal of this page is to help prospective immigrants protect themselves from immigration fraud over the internet, email, and telephone. The page consists of details about the many types of immigration scams noticed by the government and informs how to detect and avoid them. https://www.welcomebc.ca/Immigrate-to-B-C/B-C-Provincial-Nominee-Program/Imm

On October 1, 2019, the immigration authorities of British Columbia held a new draw under Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). 402 candidates received invitations to apply for the provincial nomination in this round. The scores of this round did not change except for the Entry Level and Semi-Skilled workers: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 92 Skills Immigration - International Graduat

On September 24, 2019, British Columbia held a new draw in the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) Tech Pilot. In this round, the provincial immigration authorities invited 65 candidates in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Express Entry British Columbia - International Graduate. The lowest score in all four categories traditionally was 90 poi

On September 3, 2019, British Columbia has set a new record of the number of invitations issued in one round. In the last draw, the province invited 527 candidates, while in the new round 546 registrants under Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) program received invitations. The large intake has reduced the lowest scores in all categories, except the Entry Level and Semi-Skilled workers:

On August 20, 2019, British Columbia held the largest draw in 2019 for candidates under Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) program. The total number of candidates invited in this round is 527. The large draw dropped the lowest scores in all categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 95 Skills Immigration - International Graduate 100 Skills Immigration - Entry Level and Semi-Skilled

On August 6, 2019, British Columbia held a new draw for candidates under Skills Immigration and Express Entry British Columbia categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) program. The total number of candidates invited in this round is 238. The lowest scores for SI - Skilled Worker decreased for 1 point, while for EEBC - Skilled Worker – for 6 points. The scores in the other categories remained unchanged: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker 100 Skil

On July 23, 2019, British Columbia held a new round of invitations for candidates under Express Entry British Columbia and Skilled Immigrant categories of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) program. The total number of invitations issued in this round is 191. The lowest scores in all categories have increased: Skilled Immigrant - Skilled Worker 101 Skilled Immigrant - International Graduate 105 Skilled Immigrant - Entry Level and Semi-Skilled 80 Express

On July 16, 2019, British Columbia held a new draw for the candidates in the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) Tech Pilot. This program is designed for the top talented foreign specialists in 29 technology occupations which are in-demand in British Columbia. In this round, BC PNP issued 73 invitations in four categories: Skills Immigration - Skilled Worker, Skills Immigration - International Graduate, Express Entry British Columbia - Skilled Worker, and Exp