Provincial Nominee Program: Business Immigrants
Ineligible Businesse
Applications will NOT be considered for the following types of businesses:
- bed and breakfasts, hobby farms and home-based businesses
- pay day loan, cheque cashing, money changing and cash machine businesses
- pawnbrokers
- coin operated laundries
- automated car wash operations
- sale of used goods (excluding collectibles, or where the business provides value-added services such as repairs, refurbishing, or recycling)
- real estate development/brokerage, insurance brokerage or business brokerage
- businesses involved in the production, distribution or sale of pornographic or sexually explicit products or services, or in the provision of sexually oriented services
- any other type of business that by association would tend to bring the program or the Government of British Columbia into disrepute
In addition, applications will NOT be considered for the following types of businesses in the Vancouver metropolitan area
(
316KB) or the Abbotsford metropolitan area ( 290KB):
- convenience stores
- video and DVD rental stores
- gasoline service stations
- personal dry cleaning services
- franchise operations, unless pre-authorized by the BC PNP
