British Columbia (BC) conducted two separate draws on December 21, inviting a range of workers, international graduates, and entrepreneurs to immigrate to the province through the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP). The majority of the 276 individual candidates who were invited were candidates who had already created a profile in the Skills Immigration Registration System (SIRS), a mechanism unique to the BC PNP that allows the province to rank and select potential newcomers across a range of sub-categories.