{"id":1701,"date":"2024-09-07T22:50:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration-services.org\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2024-09-07T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T22:50:39","slug":"british-columbia-invites-more-skills-immigration-and-express-entry-bc-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration-services.org\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia invites more Skills Immigration and Express Entry BC candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/images\/_1200x630_crop_center-center_82_none\/british-columbia-draw-january17.jpg?mtime=1656366544\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British columbia draw january17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/images\/_newsThumbnail\/british-columbia-draw-january17.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/> <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British columbia draw january17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/images\/_newsThumbnail\/british-columbia-draw-january17.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The province of British Columbia issued 316 invitations to apply for a provincial nomination to Skills Immigration and Express Entry BC candidates on January 16.<\/p>\n<p>This draw follows a January 9 tech-specific draw when\u00a035 candidates with a one-year job offer in a\u00a0priority occupation\u00a0were invited by\u00a0the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP).<\/p>\n<p>The January 16 invitations went out to British Columbia immigration candidates in the Skilled Worker and International Graduate categories of the\u00a0Express Entry BC\u00a0and Skills Immigration\u00a0streams. An unspecified number of\u00a0 Skills Immigration: Entry Level and Semi-Skilled category candidates were also invited.<\/p>\n<p>The Express Entry BC Stream is aligned with\u00a0Canada&#8217;s\u00a0Express Entry\u00a0system, which manages candidate profiles for Canada&#8217;s three main federal economic immigration categories: the\u00a0Federal Skilled Worker Class,\u00a0Federal Skilled Trades Class, and the\u00a0Canadian Experience Class.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates in the Express Entry system who obtain\u00a0a provincial nomination\u00a0from the BC PNP are awarded an additional 600\u00a0Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)\u00a0points.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates who obtain a nomination through the BC PNP Skills Immigration Stream will have their applications\u00a0for Canadian permanent residence processed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)\u00a0outside the Express Entry system.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in applying for immigration to Canada under the BC PNP Skills Immigration or Express Entry streams must start the process by\u00a0creating an online profile using the\u00a0program&#8217;s online registration system. Submitted registrations\u00a0are\u00a0assessed and assigned a score based on various factors, such as education, work experience and other factors.<\/p>\n<p>All candidates invited in the January 16 draw had to demonstrate an indeterminate, full-time job offer from a B.C. employer.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the\u00a0various BC PNP immigration categories.<\/p>\n<h4><em>Find out your potential BC PNP Skills Immigration Registration System (SIRS) score with the\u00a0CanadaVisa Skills Immigration Registration System Calculator.\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<h3>The minimum scores for each category invited in the January 16 draw were as follows:<\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Date of draw<\/th>\n<th>BC PNP Category<\/th>\n<th>Minimum Score Required<\/th>\n<th>Number of ITAs Issued<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>January 16, 2019<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>EEBC \u2013 Skilled Worker<\/td>\n<td>85<\/td>\n<td>316<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>EEBC \u2013 International Graduate<\/td>\n<td>95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SI &#8211; Skilled Worker<\/td>\n<td>85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SI \u2013 International Graduate<\/td>\n<td>95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SI &#8211; Entry Level and Semi-Skilled<\/td>\n<td>68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4><em><br \/>Stay up to date and track the latest Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) updates with the interactive\u00a0Canada PNP Finder. You can explore your PNP immigration options, filter your results and track the latest PNP news.\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Complete our free online assessment to find out if you are eligible for any Canadian immigration program.<\/p>\n<p> Please visit:  <br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/teo-bg.com\/en\/tractors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Our Sponsor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The province of British Columbia issued 316 invitations to apply for a provincial nomination to Skills Immigration and Express Entry BC candidates on January 16.This draw follows a January 9 tech-specific draw when\u00a035 candidates with a one-year job offer in a\u00a0priority occupation\u00a0were invited by\u00a0the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP).The January 16 invitations went&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-services-at-one-place"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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