BUSINESS IMMIGRATION

To qualify for the MPNP-B, interested applicants must:

• have a minimum verifiable personal net worth of CDN$350,000;

• have a minimum three years of successful business ownership and management experience or a minimum three years of executive-level experience as senior manager of a business; and

• score a minimum of 60 points in the Adaptability Assessment Matrix.

The applicant must also be prepared to:

• attend an interview with a MPNP-B officer;

• make an Eligible Business Investment in Manitoba; and

• reside in Manitoba along with his/her dependent family members.

The applicant may have to:

• conduct an Exploratory Visit to Manitoba. The applicant must provide a visit report and other documents to demonstrate the research conducted during this visit; and

• provide the results of a language competency test to demonstrate language proficiency.

Note: Meeting the basic eligibility requirements does not guarantee nomination.

Business Ownership or Senior Management Experience

You must have at least three years of full time work experience in the past five years either as a business owner or in a senior management role of a successful business. Your job title, place of employment, responsibilities and business skills must be described clearly in the resume and in the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program Generic Application Form - Business (MPNP-B APP). The application will be evaluated taking into consideration your business ownership and management experience, or your senior management experience or a combination of both.

Business Owner: As an entrepreneur, you must be engaged actively and on an ongoing basis in providing goods or services to customers. Also, as an entrepreneur, you should bear the risk of return for the capital investment in your business enterprise.

Senior Management Experience:

• You have occupied a position in the highest level of the management structure of a major business. In that position, you were responsible for the strategic policy development affecting a major component or a wide range of operations of that major business, and have done so for at least three of the past five years prior to applying.

• If your application is based on Senior Management experience, you must demonstrate that you have had a role with significant decision-making responsibilities involving a minimum of two of the following aspects of business:

- Distribution

- Production/Operations/Project management

- Purchasing

- Sales

- Marketing

- Finance

- Accounting

- Human Resources/Personnel

- Research and Development

- Information Technology management

- Quality Control

• In addition to the above, you should also demonstrate that your level of income is commensurate with the prevailing income level of senior managers of other major businesses in your country.

Eligible Business Investments

Business Investments will not be eligible if they do not meet the MPNP-B's requirements for investment and business activities.

Investment

• The Investment of your personal assets should be no less than CDN$150,000 in tangible assets** in Manitoba, unless the Investment includes a portion of working capital that is in conformity with the industry's capital investment structure defined by statistics from Industry Canada, and the total investment including working capital is no less than CDN$150,000.

• If an Investment is into an existing business, the Nominee must control at least 33.33% of the equity, or make a minimum CDN$1 million equity investment in the business.  In addition, a redemption option should not be included in terms of investment.

• Investment into personal items such as the principal residence and motor vehicles for personal use will not be counted as part of a business investment.

• Investments into a business operated primarily for the purposes of deriving passive investment income are not eligible.

Business Activities

• A business entity should have ongoing and recurring business activities in Manitoba.

• You are required to actively participate in the management of the business on an ongoing basis from within Manitoba.

• The business must be legal and viable in Manitoba's economic environment, and you must have the necessary resources and skills to operate such a business.

• The MPNP-B requires you to conduct value-added business activities in Manitoba. Purely speculative activities and passive investment schemes do not qualify under the MPNP-B.

Note: Tangible assets are items such as land, buildings, motor vehicles, furniture, office equipment, computers, fixtures and fittings, machinery, and inventory, etc.