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Immigration to British Columbia, Canada via the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP), Category Business

Entrepreneurs seeking immigration to Canada, that wish to reside in British Columbia, can apply under the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP), category Business.

The British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) offers experienced entrepreneurs the opportunity to fast track their application for Canadian immigration and become permanent residents of British Columbia.

There are three schemes available with in the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP):
  1. Business Skills
  2. Regional business
  3. Strategic business



Business Category Criteria for British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP)

Business immigrant applications are accepted for those have the right attributes to settle and establish themselves, and a business, successfully in British Columbia. Business applicants must demonstrate they meet a range of criteria:

Eligible Businesses for the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP)

In addition to the general criteria which all applicants to the BC PNP are required to meet, applicants under the business streams are also required to prove business eligibility. A business is considered eligible for the BC PNP if it meets the following criteria:

  • The primary purpose of the business is to earn profits from active income from the supply of products and/or services
  • The business' sustained commercial viability must be probable
  • The business must provide economic benefit to BC by contributing to one of the following

    •         increasing the exports of goods and/or services
    •         increasing value-added manufacturing, processing or primary resource activity
    •         increasing BC tourism
    •         increasing research and development and technology commercialization
    •         creating innovative approaches to traditional businesses
    •         servicing an underserved regional market
    •         transferring skills, technology and know-how to BC

What is Fast Track Nomination?
The Fast Track Nomination option offers expedited nomination for permanent resident status, in return for which you will make a deposit with the province of BC in the amount of $125,000.00CAD. This will be refunded, without interest, when the applicant has met the terms and conditions outlined in the Performance and Deposit agreements.

The BC PNP will give special priority to business proposals that contribute to:
  • Expanding business with the Asia Pacific region.
  • Utilizing wood infected by Mountain Pine Beetle.
  • Diversifying the economies of communities affected by Mountain Pine Beetle damage.
  • Creating business partnerships with the province's First Nations.
  • Developing the province's emerging technology industries such as: alternative energy, clean technologies, information technology, new media, and life sciences

A number of businesses are ineligible to apply and these include:
  • Bed and breakfasts, hobby farms and home-based businesses.
  • Pawnbrokers.
  • Coin operated laundries.
  • Real estate development/brokerage, insurance brokerage or business brokerage.
  • Businesses involved in pornographic, sexually explicit products or services, or in the provision of sexually oriented services.
  • Any other type of business that by association would tend to bring the program or the Government of British Columbia into disrepute.

Investment Amount Required for the Business Category of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP)

  1. Applicants must be able to make a personal investment of at least CDN $400,000 to establish or to purchase and expand an eligible business within British Columbia.
  2. For the establishment or expand a regional businesses, the applicant needs to make a personal investment of at least CDN $200,000.S
  3. For the establishment or expansion of a Strategic business, applicants must in make minimum equity investment of CDN $500,000.