PROVINCIAL NOMINATION PROGRAM (BC-PNP)

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Canada is a country that embraces everyone irrespective of gender, age, caste, color or creed. It provides a utopian environment for immigrants to study, work and settle, paving way for a quality life in a tolerant society with advanced infrastructure, high human development index, and a high employment rate. At present, Canada’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level since the 1970s. All these factors combine to attract a myriad of immigrants to this part of the world.

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The Immigration Process in Canada

The immigration process of Canada is simple and structured giving everyone an equal opportunity to come and settle in Canada. However, the interested immigration aspirants often talk about express entry only. Most of them are oblivious of the fact that other immigration programs in Canada like several Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) are equally good at providing multiple advantages to the immigration applicants.

Even the percentage of invitees with provincial nomination certificates is increasing as mentioned in the following graph. The graph below shows the trend line (in orange) of provincial nominees have issued an ITA over the first two years (or 50 draws) of Express Entry.

Familiarization with Provincial Nomination Program (PNP)

The Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) as the name suggests are the immigration programs that give different provinces and territories across Canada an active role in the immigrant selection, appropriate for its labor market and economy. The 5 major streams of PTs are as follows:

Skilled Workers
Semi-Skilled Workers
Business/Investors
International student graduates
Family/community connections

WHAT PNP OFFERS TO THE APPLICANT

The skilled manpower filled with innovation, entrepreneurs and their families continue to gain visa under

The skilled manpower filled with innovation, entrepreneurs and their families continue to gain visa under Provincial Nominee Programs of Canada. This is the easiest and quickest roadmap to migrate to Canada and settle down with a family. The pivotal advantages of applying to a PNP program for Canada Immigration are as follows:

Few provincial nominee programs do not even look for a job offer from a Canadian employer to apply for a PR visa as a skilled It is a huge advantage for the applicants to get Canadian Visa in absence of Canadian job offer.

Once you get selected in a provincial nomination program of any province, you will receive the nomination from that province, making you eligible to apply for PR Visa to IRCC (Immigration Refugee and Citizenship Canada).

A few provincial nominee programs require a low level of language proficiency, i.e. CLB 4 to apply. It’s a huge advantage for the people who don’t have good IELTS score.

Without getting trapped in the hassles of pool selections, many PNPs provide faster processing of applications than many other programs of immigration.

STEPS TO IMMIGRATE TO CANADA THROUGH PNP

The following is a general overview of the Canadian immigration process for Provincial Nominee Programs:

Canadian immigration process

Check for your eligibility
Initiate the application process
Apply via Express Entry
Apply to a PNP of province directly

The initial step to applying to immigrate to Canada through PNP is to determine whether you are eligible to apply for the specific province or not. Provinces that are part of the PNP have different eligibility requirements. Moreover, you will have to keep a timely track of each province website as the requirements of provinces may change without any notice. So keep a regular check on the application process and determine whether you are eligible or not.

Before going ahead with the initiation process of application, it is important to decide where in Canada you want to live and apply through PNP. Following are few such options:
Once you have decided the province you wish to settle in, you can take any of the following two paths to initiate the PNP application process

Express Entry is the route for the skilled workers to immigrate to Canada quickly. You have to register on Express Entry and make it an express entry pool. Your profile will be viewed, analyzed, and selected by different provinces of Canada. On being picked up by any of the provinces, you will be invited to get in touch with the province to be considered for the program they offer. As soon as you are invited through this route by any province, you become eligible to get an online ITA for a Permanent residency visa.

Once you have chosen the province in Canada to settle, you can directly apply in its PNP program. Your application will be analyzed as per the selection criterion of that particular province. Based on the nomination, you can apply for the permanent residency in Canada to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).