BC PNP Draw 2026: Latest Results, Cut-off Scores & Pool DataBC PNP Draw Results 2026: Latest Invitations, Cut-off Scores and Pool Data
British Columbia rebuilt its nominee program around three priorities in April 2026. Care, Build and Innovate now decide who gets invited. This page tracks every round of 2026, the score you need in each category, and where your own score sits in a registration pool of 8,306 people.
- Where the BC PNP stands today
- The latest draw, 6 August 2026
- Care, Build and Innovate explained
- What BC closed in 2026
- How cut-off scores have moved
- Every BC PNP draw, 2025 and 2026
- The registration pool, and where you sit in it
- Entrepreneur Immigration draws
- Allocations year by year
- What to expect for the rest of 2026
- Frequently asked questions
Where the BC PNP stands today
British Columbia is drawing roughly every two weeks and alternating between two kinds of round. Care and Build categories are invited together in one round, then Innovate is invited in the next. That rhythm has held since early May 2026.
The province has issued 4,359 invitations so far in 2026 against a nomination allocation of 5,254. That is a much faster pace than 2025, when only 978 Skills Immigration invitations went out across three rounds in the entire year.
The trade-off is that BC narrowed who can be invited. Entry level and semi-skilled work, international graduate pathways and the separate tech priority were all removed on 23 April 2026. If your occupation is not in Care or Build, your only route is Innovate, which is a wage and score contest against the strongest candidates in the pool.
Care
36 occupations across health, childcare, French-language K to 12 teaching and veterinary care. The lowest cut-offs on the board and the largest share of invitations.
Build
9 construction trades tied to housing and infrastructure. SkilledTradesBC certification or registered apprenticeship is mandatory, not optional.
Innovate
Open to any occupation with a permanent BC job offer. Selection is by wage or by score, and the thresholds move every round.
Health Authority stream
A direct application route that skips the pool and the score entirely. If a BC health authority is your employer, start here before anything else.
Entry level and semi-skilled
Tourism, hospitality and food processing roles lost their pathway on 23 April 2026.
Graduate and tech pathways
International graduate and post-graduate streams closed, and tech occupations no longer get their own priority draw. Tech now competes inside Innovate.
The latest draw, 6 August 2026
BC issued 505 invitations across five Care and Build rounds. Two things are worth noting. The childcare round was restricted to early childhood educators only, and the health cut-off fell to 84, its lowest point of the year. A Care: Education round also appeared for the first time in months, though it invited fewer than five people.
| Category | Who was targeted | Minimum score | Invitations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care: Childcare | Early childhood educators only | 102 | 183 |
| Care: Health | All priority occupations | 84 | 124 |
| Care: Education | All priority occupations | 68 | fewer than 5 |
| Care: Veterinary | NOC 32104 with designation | 72 | 6 |
| Build: Construction trades | All priority occupations | 88 | 187 |
Source: WelcomeBC invitations to apply, published 6 August 2026.
Care, Build and Innovate explained
BC announced the restructure on 23 April 2026. The old menu of streams was replaced by three priorities that reflect where the province says its labour shortages actually are. Around 35% of nominations are directed outside Metro Vancouver.
| Care | Build | Innovate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it covers | 36 occupations. Nurses, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists and other health roles, early childhood educators, French-speaking K to 12 teachers, and veterinary occupations | 9 trades. Welders, electricians, industrial electricians, plumbers, steamfitters and pipefitters, carpenters, construction millwrights, heavy duty equipment mechanics, HVAC mechanics | Any occupation. Selection is based on wage level or score rather than the job title |
| Job offer | Permanent, full time, in the priority occupation | Permanent, full time, matching the certified trade | Permanent, full time, in BC |
| Credential | Occupation specific. Care aides need BC registry status, early childhood educators need a one year or five year certificate, teachers must work in a BC public school and hold CLB 5 French | Valid SkilledTradesBC certificate matching the offered trade, or registered apprentice status | No occupation specific credential requirement |
| Experience | Two years of skilled experience, in any occupation | Two years of skilled experience, in any occupation | Assessed through the points system |
| 2026 cut-off range | 68 to 115 depending on the sub-category | 88 to 108 | 132 to 138 on points, or the wage threshold with no minimum score |
The two ways Innovate invites people
Each Innovate round is really two draws. The first invites anyone whose job offer meets a wage threshold, and no score minimum applies. The second invites the highest scoring candidates regardless of wage. The wage threshold has fallen steadily through 2026, which is the single most useful trend on this page for anyone holding a high paying offer.
| Round | Hourly wage threshold | Annual equivalent | Points cut-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 February 2026 | $70 | $145,000 | 138 |
| 11 February 2026 | $62 | $125,000 | 135 |
| 22 April 2026 | $62 | $125,000 | 138 |
| 14 May 2026 | $59 | $120,000 | 135 |
| 18 June 2026 | $62 | $125,000 | 136 |
| 16 July 2026 | $58 | $115,000 | 132 |
The Health Authority route
If you work for a BC health authority, you may be able to apply directly without a registration score at all. Most positions need a permanent full-time offer from the health authority. Physicians, nurse practitioners and midwives need health authority support rather than an employment offer. BC also ran a one-time initiative in June 2026 for up to 250 cleaning and security workers employed by rural and remote health authorities, and invited 60 of them on 23 July at a minimum score of 50, the lowest published cut-off of the year.
What BC closed in 2026
The restructure removed more than it added. If you were building a plan around any of these, it no longer exists.
| Removed | Who it affected | What is left |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Level and Semi-Skilled | Tourism, hospitality and food processing workers, and the North East pilot | Nothing equivalent. Express Entry or a different province |
| International Graduate and International Post-Graduate | Recent graduates of BC institutions who could previously register without a job offer in some cases | Graduates now need a job offer in a Care or Build occupation, or a wage or score high enough for Innovate |
| Tech priority draws | The 29 tech occupations that had their own regular rounds | Tech competes inside Innovate, where the bar is a $58 to $70 hourly wage or a score above 132 |
| General and priority occupation draws | Everyone in the pool who was waiting for a broad round | These were already paused through 2025 and have not returned |
How cut-off scores have moved in 2026
Care and Build cut-offs have fallen in every single round since May. That is the clearest signal on this page. A score that was 20 points short in May could be competitive by autumn if the pattern holds.
| Category | 6 May | 2 Jun | 9 Jul | 6 Aug | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Care: Childcare | 115 | 111 | 108 | 102 | -13 |
| Care: Health | 108 | 100 | 96 | 84 | -24 |
| Care: Veterinary | 100 | 92 | 88 | 72 | -28 |
| Build: Construction trades | 108 | 101 | 97 | 88 | -20 |
Care: Health cut-off through 2026
A 24 point drop in three months. The health category has moved further than any other in 2026.
Every BC PNP draw, 2025 and 2026
Filter by category or year, search by occupation or wage threshold, and sort by clicking a column heading. Rounds where BC reported fewer than five invitations are shown as such, because the province masks small numbers for privacy.
| Date | Category | Targeted group | Invitations | Minimum score |
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The registration pool, and where you sit in it
BC publishes how many people are in the pool at each score band. Almost nobody uses it, and it is the most useful number available to you. As of 4 August 2026 there were 8,306 active registrations against 5,254 nominations for the year.
The pool is densest between 90 and 129. If your score is in that band you are competing with more than 5,400 other people, which is why the Care and Build categories matter so much. They are the only rounds currently inviting below 110.
Registrations by score band, 4 August 2026
Total 8,306 registrations.
Where does your score rank?
Enter your Skills Immigration registration score. This shows how many people in the pool score above you, and which 2026 rounds you would have cleared.
Entrepreneur Immigration draws
BC has run entrepreneur rounds almost monthly through 2026, issuing about 113 invitations. Volumes are small, but the cut-off has been remarkably stable between 115 and 121 for the base stream, which makes this one of the more predictable pathways in the country.
| Date | Stream | Minimum score | Invitations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2026 | Base | 117 | 10 |
| 30 June 2026 | Base | 118 | 14 |
| 30 June 2026 | Regional | 113 | fewer than 5 |
| 2 June 2026 | Base | 117 | 15 |
| 2 June 2026 | Regional | 117 | fewer than 5 |
| 5 May 2026 | Base | 115 | 8 |
| 5 May 2026 | Regional | 115 | fewer than 5 |
| 14 April 2026 | Base | 115 | 14 |
| 10 March 2026 | Base | 117 | 7 |
| 10 March 2026 | Regional | 129 | fewer than 5 |
| 10 February 2026 | Base | 121 | 13 |
| 10 February 2026 | Regional | 105 | fewer than 5 |
| 13 January 2026 | Base | 115 | 7 |
| 16 December 2025 | Base | 115 | 17 |
| 16 December 2025 | Regional | 107 | fewer than 5 |
| 18 November 2025 | Base | 121 | 19 |
Base stream and Regional pilot. Rounds reported as fewer than five are masked by BC.
Allocations year by year
BC asked Ottawa for 9,000 nominations in 2026 and received 5,254, a shortfall of about 42%. The 2025 figure below is where the province ended the year after two federal top-ups, not what it started with. It began 2025 with 4,000, and 2,900 of those were already committed to applications sitting in inventory.
| Year | Nominations available | Skills invitations | What defined the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5,254 | 4,246 | Care, Build and Innovate replaced the old streams on 23 April. Draws returned to a roughly fortnightly rhythm and cut-offs fell in every Care and Build round after May. |
| 2025 | 6,214 | 978 | Allocation halved to 4,000 before two top-ups. General and priority occupation draws paused for the whole year. Only three Skills rounds were held, with scores as high as 150. |
| 2024 | about 8,000 | Weekly rounds | The last year of regular general draws, separate tech rounds and targeted draws for childcare, health, construction and veterinary care. |
Round by round records before 2025 are published by BC only in its PDF archive library.
What to expect for the rest of 2026
BC has used about 4,359 invitations against 5,254 nominations. Invitations do not convert one for one into nominations, since some invited candidates never apply and some applications are refused, so there is still headroom. Expect the current rhythm to continue into the autumn.
Cut-offs should keep easing
Care and Build have fallen in four consecutive rounds. Unless registrations surge, that trend has room to continue as the pool thins.
The fortnightly rhythm holds
Care and Build in one round, Innovate in the next, roughly every two weeks. Nothing BC has said suggests a change before December.
Watch the wage threshold
It fell from $70 to $58 an hour between February and July. If it keeps sliding, wage-based selection becomes realistic for a much wider group of professionals.
What to do now
- Check whether your occupation is in the 36 Care occupations or the 9 Build trades. That single question decides which cut-off applies to you, and the gap between Care and Innovate is more than 40 points.
- If your employer is a BC health authority, look at the Health Authority stream first. It bypasses the pool and the score entirely.
- If you are in Build, get your SkilledTradesBC certification in hand before registering. It is a hard requirement, not a scoring factor.
- Recalculate your score honestly. Wage, work experience, education, language and location outside Metro Vancouver all move it, and small changes can cross a cut-off.
- Re-register if your circumstances improve. A registration expires and a higher wage or a new credential can lift you into a band that is actually being invited.
Frequently asked questions
When is the next BC PNP draw?
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What score do I need for the BC PNP in 2026?
How many invitations has BC issued in 2026?
What is BC's nomination allocation for 2026?
What are Care, Build and Innovate?
Is the BC PNP tech stream still running?
Can international graduates still apply to the BC PNP?
How many people are in the BC PNP pool?
What does 'fewer than 5' mean in the results?
Does a BC nomination add 600 CRS points?
How much does a BC PNP application cost?
What is the Health Authority stream?
Not sure which BC category you fall into?
The difference between Care, Build and Innovate is more than 40 points of cut-off. Getting that classification right is the single biggest factor in whether a BC registration is worth making at all.
Check your eligibility See the latest Express Entry drawSources and updates
- WelcomeBC, Invitations to apply, and the BC PNP registration pool distribution published 4 August 2026
- BC PNP strategic priorities announcement of 23 April 2026 covering the Care, Build and Innovate categories
- Published reports on BC's 2026 nomination allocation and on the 2025 program changes
This page is updated after each published BC PNP round. It is general information about a program that changes frequently, not legal advice. Confirm any detail against the official WelcomeBC pages before acting on it. Last reviewed 17 August 2026.
