The latest BC PNP draw: 2026 invitations and minimum scores

What was the latest BC PNP draw?

British Columbia's latest Skills Immigration round ran on September 10, 2026. The Care and Build priorities invited roughly 430 candidates between them: 182 early childhood educators (Care: Childcare) at a minimum of 99, 143 priority health occupations (Care: Health) at 76, fewer than five in Care: Veterinary Care at 90 (animal health technologists and veterinary technicians, NOC 32104, holding a valid professional designation), and 104 priority construction occupations (Build: Construction Trades) at 94. Care: Education was not part of that round. Before it, on August 20, the Innovate: High Economic Impact priority invited 337 candidates with job offers at or above $55 an hour and $110,000 a year in NOC TEER 0 to 3, with no minimum score, and a further 265 by points at a minimum of 132. The August 6 Care and Build round had invited 183 early childhood educators at 102, 124 priority health occupations at 84, fewer than five in Care: Education at 68, six in Care: Veterinary Care at 72 and 187 construction occupations at 88. The Entrepreneur Immigration stream last drew on August 25: 11 Base and 5 Regional invitations at a minimum of 116.

Read across the year, the pattern behind each BC PNP draw is consistent. The province is not running one large competition; it is running several small ones, and the occupation on your job offer decides which queue you stand in. That is why two people with an identical registration score can sit months apart in the invitation cycle.

Every 2026 BC PNP draw: Skills Immigration history

Two trends run through the table. Care minimums have fallen in every round since May (childcare 115 to 99, health 108 to 76) as British Columbia works through its priority pools, while construction fell from 108 to 88 by August and rose to 94 on September 10. Meanwhile the high economic impact wage floor has come down from $70 an hour on February 4 to $55 on August 20, which widens the wage-based selection to a larger group of TEER 0 to 3 job offers without touching the points line. The older general rounds for the BC PNP Skilled Worker and International Graduate categories, which used to invite across all occupations, have not appeared at all this year.

The BC PNP registration pool by score

2026 Entrepreneur Immigration draws

Entrepreneur rounds sit on a separate register from Skills Immigration, so they do not compete with a worker-side round at all. Base and Regional invitations are small and steady: the Base minimum has stayed between 115 and 121 all year (116 on August 25), while the smaller Regional rounds have ranged from 105 in February to 129 in March. If you are scoring a business proposal rather than a job offer, read our guide to BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration before you register.

How a BC PNP draw works in 2026

Anyone hoping to move to British Columbia through the provincial nominee route starts in the same place. You register in the province's Skills Immigration Registration System, and the system scores your profile on the wage and location of the job offer, your directly related work experience, your education, your language results and a handful of other factors; our BC PNP calculator mirrors that grid point for point. The province then issues invitations by priority. Care covers childcare (early childhood educators), health (priority health occupations, including those hired through the Health Authority stream), education and veterinary care. Build covers priority construction trades. Innovate covers high-economic-impact roles, selected either by a wage floor with no minimum score or by points, and it is where the BC PNP Tech candidates now sit.

An invitation is not a nomination. If your registration is picked up in a BC PNP draw you receive an invitation to apply, then have a fixed window to file the full provincial application with your job offer, employer documents, credentials and language results. British Columbia assesses that application and, if it is approved, issues the nomination. Candidates in the Express Entry BC option then add 600 CRS points to their federal profile and wait for the latest Express Entry draw to pick them up; base Skills Immigration nominees file a paper-based permanent residence application with IRCC instead. Both routes end in the same place, but the timelines are different, and only one of them is affected by the federal cut-off.

What this means for your profile

• Early childhood educators, priority health occupations and construction trades have a near-monthly round, and the childcare and health minimums have fallen in every round since May; an eligible job offer in the right occupation is the whole game. Use the NOC code finder to confirm your code sits on British Columbia's priority list before you register.
• Higher-paid skilled workers should check the Innovate wage floor first: a job offer at $55 an hour and $110,000 a year in TEER 0 to 3 was invited on August 20 with no score requirement at all, which is a far shorter route than chasing points.
• Everyone else in the pool is competing for the points-based Innovate selection at 132, or waiting for a new priority to be added, and the pool table shows how few registrants reach that line. For many profiles the more realistic 2026 nomination is an Alberta PNP draw, a Manitoba PNP draw or one of the OINP draws.
• Entrepreneurs face a steady Base minimum of 115 to 121 with small monthly rounds, and are scored on the business proposal rather than on a NOC code.

When is the next BC PNP draw?

British Columbia does not pre-announce its rounds, and we do not forecast them. The published 2026 record shows Care and Build rounds on May 6, June 2, July 9, August 6 and September 10, Innovate rounds on May 14, June 18, July 16 and August 20, and Entrepreneur Immigration rounds in every month from January to August. We re-date this tracker after each round, and WelcomeBC's invitations page remains the authoritative record. If you are weighing British Columbia against the rest of the country, our tracker of upcoming PNP draws puts every provincial nominee program in one table.

Compliance note. Wild Mountain Immigration is a licensed RCIC practice (CICC R706497). Every figure above belongs to the BC Provincial Nominee Program as published by WelcomeBC and read on September 11, 2026, and the numbers move with every new BC PNP draw. Nothing here guarantees an invitation or a nomination.