British Columbia PNP Received 1254 Additional Nominations for Waitlisted Applicants

Shiwangi Srivastava
[Published 08 Oct, 2025 | 04:48 AM]
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The British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) has announced significant news for foreign graduates and skilled professionals seeking to settle in the province. The government of British Columbia officially issued 1254 additional nominations to the British Columbia PNP.

However, this additional nomination of 2025 by the British Columbia PNP is 5,254, which offsets the recovery from the last year, reducing the cap to 4,000. According to the rise in allocation, it has recovered 69% of its 2025 allocation of 8000 slots.

This announcement, released on October 2, 2025, directly aligns with addressing the labour shortage and supporting the province's economic growth. Therefore, this additional nomination can reopen the pathways for the foreign international post-graduates who have been waiting for the previous year.

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How British Columbia Will Use the Additional Nomination?

The additional nomination allocated by the BC PNP has the plan to use this mainly in two ways:

1. Process Waitlisted International Post-Graduates Application:

• Last year, the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) received more applications than its nomination capacity allowed. Accordingly, BC placed the submitted application on hold from September 1, 2024, to January 7, 2025, pending the availability of additional nominations.

• These additional nominations of 1,254 will enable the BC province to resume processing waitlisted IPG applications.

2. Support Existing Priority or High Economic-Impact Candidates

• Beyond clearing the backlog, BC plans to direct the extra nominations toward its ongoing priority sectors: healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, and other high-impact skilled workers.

• BC has signalled it will not expand into new priorities for 2025 unless further nominations are granted.

Total Invitations Issued In 2025

From January to September, British Columbia has mainly focused on the entrepreneurs in the province. They released the majority of the draws for the Entrepreneur Immigration category.

However, they have released a total of nine draws, of which only two were released for the skilled immigration category. Even though this category issued many invitations.

The table below gives the total number of invitations issued in 2025.

Skills Immigration:

Entrepreneurs Immigration:

Why did British Columbia initially reduce the Nomination in 2025?

According to the official announcement, the Canadian government is concerned about the housing market and the increased pressure on social services programs. Due to this reason, they steadily reduced the overall number of immigration applicants in 2025.

As outlined in the Canada Immigration Levels Plan 2025-2027, the Government of Canada has stated that the permanent resident admission target for 2025 is 395,000. This year's target was lower than the previous year's, which was reported as 485,000.

As part of this overall reduction, PNP saw their nomination allocations reduced by 50%, resulting in a target of only 55,000 landings across all PNPs, down from the previous year’s 110,000.

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Source: welcomebc.ca