{"id":79511,"date":"2020-09-01T12:58:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/covid-19-british-columbia-to-exclude-certain-jobs-from-immigration-draws-until-end-of-2020"},"modified":"2020-09-01T12:58:52","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T16:58:52","slug":"covid-19-british-columbia-to-exclude-certain-jobs-from-immigration-draws-until-end-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/covid-19-british-columbia-to-exclude-certain-jobs-from-immigration-draws-until-end-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: British Columbia to Exclude Certain Jobs from Immigration Draws Until End of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Columbia immigration<\/a><\/span> says it will likely continue to exclude 31 occupations from its weekly draws<\/span><\/a> until the end of 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Invitations to apply have been suspended for the jobs in tourism, hospitality, retail and personal services since March 30.<\/p>\n

B.C. believes employment in the sectors is likely to drop 70 percent this year, meaning labour market demand is not high enough to justify bringing in new immigrants.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis temporary measure is in response to widespread unemployment in these sectors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d said a British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe anticipate that these occupations will be excluded from ITAs for the remainder of 2020. We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on the B.C. labour market with each BC PNP draw and will review sooner if warranted by economic circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n

British Columbia has continued its weekly draws uninterrupted despite the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

It continues to conduct general draws for its Skills Immigration streams, as well as targeted draws through the BC PNP Tech Pilot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not nominate any BC PNP applicants if it adversely impacts employment opportunities for British Columbians,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will however, continue to focus nominations on occupations that have labour shortages despite COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n

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BC PNP: Occupations Temporarily Suspended Due to COVID-19<\/h3>\n

0621: Retail and wholesale trade managers
\n0631: Restaurant and food service managers
\n0632: Accommodation service managers
\n0651: Managers in customer and personal services, n.e.c.
\n3236: Massage therapists
\n6211: Retail sales supervisors
\n6311: Food service supervisors
\n6313: Accommodation, travel, tourism and related services supervisors
\n6321: Chefs
\n6322: Cooks
\n6341: Hairstylists and barbers
\n6421: Retail salespersons
\n6511: Ma\u00eetres d\u2019h\u00f4tel and hosts\/hostesses
\n6512: Bartenders
\n6513: Food and beverage servers
\n6521: Travel counsellors
\n6522: Pursers and flight attendants
\n6523: Airline ticket and service agents
\n6524: Ground and water transport ticket agents, cargo service representatives and related clerks
\n6525: Hotel and front desk clerks
\n6531: Tour and travel guides
\n6532: Outdoor sport and recreational guides
\n6533: Casino occupations
\n6562: Estheticians, electrologists and related occupations
\n6564: Other personal service occupations
\n6611: Cashiers
\n6621: Service station attendants
\n6711: Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations
\n6721: Support occupations in accommodation, travel and facilities
\n6722: Operators and attendants in amusement, recreation and sport
\n6731: Light duty cleaners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

British Columbia immigration says it will likely continue to exclude 31 occupations from its weekly draws until the end of 2020 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Invitations to apply have been suspended for the jobs in tourism, hospitality, retail and personal services since March 30. B.C. believes employment in the sectors is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":79506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17033,68467,4859,10558],"tags":[69996,58263,57568,58264,68445,68446],"class_list":["post-79511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bc-fr","category-coronavirus-fr","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-provincial-news-fr","tag-bc-entrepreneur-immigration-fr","tag-bc-pnp-tech-pilot-fr","tag-british-columbia-immigration-fr","tag-british-columbia-provincial-nominee-program-fr","tag-coronavirus-fr","tag-covid-19-fr","category-17033","category-68467","category-4859","category-10558","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79511","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}