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To qualify for this category, candidates must:
Applications are managed under the Skills Immigration Registration System, or SIRS, a unique system used by the BC PNP to rank and select candidates who have the ability to settle permanently in the province. Under this system, eligible candidates must first register a profile. Upon registration, candidates are assigned a score based on a combination of factors, including the details of the job offer, as well as human capital factors relating to work experience, language ability, and level of education.
The system operates on an Expression of Interest / Invitation to Apply basis, whereby the BC PNP conducts periodic draws and invites the highest-ranked candidates to apply for provincial nomination.
Your employer must meet eligibility criteria, including:
The BC PNP Skills Immigration Skilled Worker category is not aligned with the federal Express Entry management system.
The BC PNP periodically issues invitations to candidates with experience in priority occupations. The priority occupations are divided into four categories: tech occupations, healthcare occupations, childcare occupations, and other priority occupations. These are the priority occupations for each category:
See our BC PNP Express Entry Skilled Worker page to find out if you are eligible under this category. The criteria is much the same, but the application for permanent residence (after you receive a provincial nomination) is given priority processing.
Requirements? What requirements? You may have noticed under the eligibility requirements above that only those candidates with a job offer in NOC TEER 2 or 3 are required to prove language ability. For these candidates, a minimum of Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4 is required across the four abilities: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This, of course, means that candidates with a job offer in a management or professional position (NOC TEER 0 and 1) are not required to prove language ability in order to register. However, it should be noted that a significant number of points are available for language ability under the SIRS — up to 40, out of a possible 200. Therefore, even though these candidates may not need to prove language ability to enter the SIRS pool, they would nonetheless be well advised to do so. This is particularly the case if the candidate’s SIRS score does not reach the minimum score required for recent draws under this category.
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