Top Country Invitation for BC Skill Immigration Nominations and Entrepreneur Immigration Nomination (From 2016 to 2019)

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SI Nominations

The top countries for SI nominations remain similar over time. The proportion of SI nominations from these top ten countries has been slowly but steadily decreasing over the past three years, from 77 per cent in 2017 to 76 per cent in 2018 and 75 per cent in 2019.

Almost half of SI nominees (48.7 percent) came from India and China in 2019, up from 44.8 per cent in 2018 but a smaller proportion than 53 per cent received in 2017.

EI nominations

China Continued to be the top source country for EI nominations. In 2019, the top five source countries accounted for 96 per cent of EI nominations. Those five counties accounted for 88 per cent of EI nominations in 2018, and 82 per cent in 2017.