This week four provinces held Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) draws, inviting candidates to apply for Permanent Residence (PR) and immigrate to their province. Read below to get the full results.
Ontario
This week (July 25th) Ontario help a general draw under its French-Speaking Skilled Worker Stream, issuing 95 Notifications of Interest (NOIs)—the Ontario PNP (OINP) equivalent of an Invitation to Apply (ITA)—to candidates who had a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score between 321-374.
British Columbia
On July 25th British Columbia held two separate draws across 6 different streams of the British Columbia PNP (BCPNP).
Note that for the BCPNP, Express Entry British Columbia (EEBC) Options Streams refer to PNP streams that are Express Entry aligned. These are also called enhanced nominations and allow candidates in the federal Express Entry pool to be nominated by a specific province (receiving an addition 600 CRS points through this process) to immigrate there.
The first draw saw 175 ITAs delivered in a general draw, between the following streams, with corresponding CRS cut-off scores:
- Skilled Worker Stream—106 CRS cut-off;
- Skilled Worker Express Entry British Columbia (EEBC) Option Stream—106 CRS cut-off;
- International Graduate Stream—109 CRS cut-off;
- International Graduate EEBC Option Stream—109 CRS cut-off; and
- Entry Level and Semi-Skilled Stream—87 CRS cut-off.
The second draw was exclusive to the Skilled Worker International Graduate Stream (which includes an EEBC option), targeting specific professions: