BC PNP Immigration program

Skills Immigration: is for workers and recent graduates with the skills, experience and qualifications needed by B.C. employers.

Entrepreneur Immigration: is for experienced entrepreneurs who intend to create and actively manage a business in the province.

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Skills Immigration

Skills Immigration has five streams. Each one has a unique set of criteria.

Skilled Worker

Eligibility:

• Have accepted an indeterminate* (no defined end date), full-time, job offer from a B.C. employer
• Be qualified to perform the duties of the job
• Have a minimum of two years of full-time (or full-time equivalent) work experience at NOC TEER 0, 1, 2, or 3
• Meet minimum language requirements
• Have a wage offer in line with B.C. wage rates for the occupation
• Show you can support yourself and your dependants.

Your employer must agree to support your application and must meet certain requirements.
This stream also has an Express Entry BC option.
* Your job offer does not need to be indeterminate if it is in a priority technology occupation or is in NOC 41200 (university professors and lecturers).

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Health Authority

Eligibility

• Have one of the following:
  
  • An indeterminate* (no defined end date), full-time job offer from a B.C. public health authority
  • A letter from a health authority or midwife practice group that confirms that you are a physician, nurse practitioner, or midwife in British Columbia
  • Meet the education, training, experience and qualification requirements outlined by the public health authority

The health authority must agree to support your application. This stream also has the Express Entry BC (EEBC) option.
* Your job offer does not need to be indeterminate if it is in a priority technology occupation.

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Entry Level and Semi-Skilled (ELSS)

Eligibility

• Have accepted an indeterminate (no defined end date), full-time job offer from a B.C. employer
• Your occupation must be on the list of eligible occupations for your sector. All ELSS-eligible occupations are classified as NOC TEER 4 or 5
• For the Northeast Development Region of B.C., you may apply if you are working in any NOC TEER category 4 or5  occupation, other than live-in caregivers
• Have been working full-time for your employer for a minimum of nine consecutive months before registering.
• Be qualified to do the job offered to you, including meeting any certification or registration requirements in B.C.
• Meet minimum language and education requirements
• Have a wage offer in line with B.C. wage rates for the occupation
• Show you can support yourself and your dependants

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Eligible ELSS occupations‍

• Occupations in travel and accommodation
  64314 Hotel front desk clerks
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• Tour and recreational guides and casino occupations
  64320 Tour and travel guides
  64321 Casino workers
  64322 Outdoor sport and recreational guides
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• Occupations in food and beverage service
  64300 Maîtres d’hotel and hosts/hostesses
  64301 Bartenders
  65200 Food and beverage servers
  65201 Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations
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• Cleaners(employed directly by hotels/resorts*)
  65210 Support occupations in accommodation, travel and facilities set-up services
  65310 Light duty cleaners
  65311 Specialized cleaners
  65312 Janitors, caretakers and heavy-duty cleaners
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• Other service occupations (employed directly by hotels/resorts*)
  65320 Dry cleaning, laundry and related occupations
  65329 Other service support occupations
  
  *For the purposes of the BC PNP, a resort is defined as an accommodation facility that is associated with recreational activities. These activities can include skiing, golfing, boating, fishing, biking, swimming, horseback riding, hiking, nature-based or interpretive tours, etc.
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• Food processing
  94140 Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
  94141 Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers
  94142 Fish and seafood plant workers
  94143 Testers and graders, food and beverage processing
  95106 Labourers in food and beverage processing

International Graduate

Eligibility

• Have completed a degree, diploma or certificate from an eligible post-secondary institution in Canada in the past three years
• Have accepted an indeterminate* (no defined end date), full-time job offer from a B.C. employer. The job must be classified as NOC TEER category 1, 2, or 3    
  
  • management occupations (NOC TEER 0) are not eligible under this stream

• Be qualified to work in your occupation in B.C.
• Meet minimum language requirements
• Have a wage offer in line with B.C. wage rates for the occupation
• Show you can support yourself and your dependants

Your employer must agree to support your application and must meet certain requirements. For more information, please see the Employer page.
This stream also has the Express Entry BC option.
* Your job offer does not need to be indeterminate if it is in a priority technology occupation.

International Post-Graduate

Eligibility

To qualify for this stream, you must have obtained eligible graduate-level education from an eligible program of study at a post-secondary institution in B.C. in the last three years.

Eligible education includes:

• Master’s degrees in an eligible program in the natural, applied or health sciences disciplines from a B.C. post-secondary institution. Please see the BC PNP IPG Programs of Study in Eligible Fields for more information
• Doctoral degrees in any field of study from a public B.C. post-secondary institution
• PhD students in any field of study who have been admitted to candidacy at a public B.C. post-secondary institution
  
  You must also demonstrate that you have the ability and intent to live, work and economically establish in B.C.
  This stream also has the Express Entry BC option.

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Check for more details: BCPNP