{"id":73873,"date":"2019-11-30T00:51:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T05:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/british-columbia-conducts-new-entrepreneur-immigration-regional-pilot-draw"},"modified":"2020-02-06T23:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T04:31:23","slug":"british-columbia-conducts-new-entrepreneur-immigration-regional-pilot-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/british-columbia-conducts-new-entrepreneur-immigration-regional-pilot-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"British Columbia Conducts New Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019-11-30 &#8211; British Columbia immigration has conducted a new draw through the recently-launched Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot.<\/p>\n<p>The November 26 draw saw 7 invites issued through the <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/british-columbia-immigration\/\">British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program<\/a>, with a minimum score of 120.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot is designed to bring entrepreneurs and investors to smaller British Columbia communities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The full requirements are below.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What Was the Minimum Score For The Latest B.C. Entrepreneur Draws?<\/h3>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Category<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Minimum Score<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Invites Issued<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">26-Nov-19<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">120<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/welcomebc.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/welcomebc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The previous BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration draw saw 23 invitations issued through two streams.<\/p>\n<p>The November 12 draw saw 18 invites issued trough the Entrepreneur Immigration General Category and five through the Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot.<\/p>\n<p>For the general category, the minimum score was 112, compared to 121 for the regional pilot.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What Was the Minimum Score For The November 12 B.C. Entrepreneur Draw?<\/h3>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Date<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Category<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Minimum Score<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><b>Invites Issued<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">12-Nov-19<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Entrepreneur Immigration General Category<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">112<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">18<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">121<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Source:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/welcomebc.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/welcomebc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What Are The Requirements For The B.C. Entrepreneur Category?<\/h3>\n<p>Business candidates in this <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/british-columbia-immigration\/\">British Columbia immigration<\/a> category must meet the following minimum criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstrate a personal net worth of at least $800,000;<\/li>\n<li>Make a personal investment of at least $400 000 to establish or purchase and expand an eligible business in B.C.;<\/li>\n<li>Create at least three jobs for Canadian citizens or permanent residents;<\/li>\n<li>Participate in the day-to-day management and direction or the business;<\/li>\n<li>Sign a performance agreement with B.C. prior to nomination;<\/li>\n<li>Candidates in the Entrepreneur category can sponsor a key staff member for Canadian permanent residence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>What Are The Requirements For The B.C. Entrepreneur Immigration \u2013 Regional Pilot Category?<\/h3>\n<p><b>Community Requirements<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Population of less than 75,000.<\/li>\n<li>Located beyond 30km from a municipality of more than 75,000 population.<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated capacity to support foreign entrepreneurs with a network of settlement and business support agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Immigration and pilot-specific training must be completed by community representatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Candidate Requirements<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desire to start a business and settle in a B.C. regional community.<\/li>\n<li>Complete an exploratory visit.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of $100,000 in eligible business investments.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum personal net worth of $300,000.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of 51 percent ownership.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum of one new job created.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019-11-30 &#8211; British Columbia immigration has conducted a new draw through the recently-launched Entrepreneur Immigration Regional Pilot. The November 26 draw saw 7 invites issued through the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program, with a minimum score of 120. The pilot is designed to bring entrepreneurs and investors to smaller British Columbia communities.\u00a0 The full requirements&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":73586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17033,63182,4859,10558],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc-fr","category-british-columbia-draws-fr","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-provincial-news-fr","category-17033","category-63182","category-4859","category-10558","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}