BC PNP Entrepreneur points calculator (Base stream) Draft

Last reviewed: 2026-11-08. Scoring source: BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration Base Program Guide, effective May 27, 2024.

This free calculator estimates your registration score for the Base stream of the BC PNP Entrepreneur Immigration program. It is an estimate for planning purposes and is not immigration advice. Your immigration consultant or lawyer can confirm how the BC PNP will see your profile.

What the calculator does

It adds up the self-declared factors from the Base Program Guide. These are the questions you answer when you register. The BCPNP Online system scores them automatically, but the BC PNP may adjust your score.

You can also enter your own estimate for the business concept section. The BC PNP staff score that section, so your estimate may not match theirs.

How Base scoring works

The registration score is out of 200 points: up to 120 self-declared, up to 80 for the business concept.

Section	Maximum	Minimum required
Experience and ownership	24	8
Net worth	12	5
Total personal investment	20	8
Jobs	12	4 (and at least one full-time job to be eligible)
Development region	12	None
Adaptability	40	None
Self-declared subtotal	120
Business concept (commercial viability, transferability of skills, economic benefits)	80	40
Total	200	115 to enter the pool

To enter the qualified pool you need to meet each section minimum, at least 40 points in the business concept and at least 115 points overall. A registration stays in the pool for 180 days. Adaptability covers language, education, age, exploratory visits to B.C. and Canadian experience.

Source: Base Program Guide. The BC PNP can change the grids or minimums without notice.

Where the guide is not specific

In a few places the guide does not say exactly how points combine. Where this happens, the calculator uses a stated assumption and labels the result as an estimate.

• Owner-manager and senior-manager months. The guide lists both in one table with a single maximum of 20 points and says only that months must not overlap in time. The calculator adds the two scores, caps the pair at 20, then adds the 4 ownership points.
• Exactly 24 months as a senior manager. The table gives 0 points for “less than 24 months” and 4 points for “25 to 48 months”, so 24 months is not listed. The calculator scores it 0, the lower reading.
• Business concept. The BC PNP scores it, so the calculator shows a range. For each question you answer it uses the guide’s points. For each question you leave blank it uses the lowest and the highest points the guide allows. Transferability of skills follows the guide’s printed formula: owner-manager points plus half of the senior-manager points, unless the senior-manager points alone are higher, up to 15.
• Blank answers. A blank self-declared question scores 0 and is listed as unanswered, so a result with unanswered questions is incomplete.

Latest invitation rounds

The BC PNP invites candidates from the pool in draws, roughly monthly. The most recent on the BC PNP site at our last check (2026-11-08) was October 20, 2026. The Base minimum score was 118 and 10 invitations were issued. The draws block on this page lists the 2025 and 2026 rounds.

Across the 2026 draws listed through October 20, the Base minimum score ranged from 115 to 121. A draw’s minimum score applies to that draw only and does not predict the next one. The qualified pool minimum (115) is a floor, not a target. Source: BC PNP invitations to apply.

What the calculator cannot tell you

• Whether you meet the program’s eligibility rules, such as net worth, investment, experience and ownership.
• How the BC PNP will score your business concept.
• Whether you will be invited. That depends on your score, the pool and the draw.

Please ask your immigration consultant or lawyer about your own eligibility.

A stronger business concept

The business concept can be worth up to 80 of the 200 points, and the Base stream requires at least 40 of them. If you want help preparing one, read about BC PNP business plans or book a free consultation. For the Regional stream, use the Regional calculator.

This calculator is an estimate only and is not immigration advice. Wealth Theory prepares business plans and does not provide immigration advice or representation.