The PEI Office of Immigration issued Invitation to Apply (ITA) to PEI PNP potential applicants on September 16, 2021. Business Impact Category 14 business owners and senior managers received an ITA. The minimum score for an ITA was 72, which was the same score as the last round’s cut-off score. We anticipate the low cut-off score will be more or less the same in the next round, but in order to be safe, we recommend your EOI score to be at around 80. Labour Impact Category and Express Entry The draw results for Labour Impact Category applicants have not been […]
At GBPEI, we’re proud to introduce some of our clients who, despite the challenges of a global pandemic have relocated to Prince Edward Island, worked hard, and have become business leaders in their new community. We’re thrilled to introduce this cohort of clients and their innovative businesses and services to you. Summerside, PEI’s second-largest city, is now enriched with stores and services ranging from educational toys; beauty and health; a social enterprise; a bustling small restaurant and accounting solutions. INTRODUCING THE ENTREPRENEURS ABACUS SERVICES INC. Founded in the spring of 2020, Abacus Services Inc., owned and operated by a Certified […]
Canada is an awesome place for families. Each year Canada welcomes hundreds of thousands of new immigrants who are enjoying the nation’s clean air, safe communities, and beautiful landscape. Choose GBPEI today and let us take the stress out of immigrating to Prince Edward Island as an investor, giving you more time to focus on becoming an entrepreneur and preparing your business for success. You can see some of our clients who have successfully established their business on PEI. New Wave of Entrepreneur. Immigrating to Canada via the PEI Provincial Nominee Program: Business Impact Stream is a daunting and complicated […]
Co-work Co-win Training Centre Limited, which was established by one of GB PEI’s clients, successfully hosted a grand opening for the social enterprise. It generated a lot of buzz in Summerside last Friday. The Mayor of Summerside, a Member of the Legislative Assembly, and other representatives from the city, community organizations and chambers of commerce, as well as about 50 guests attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The client’s dedication to launching the business with such vitality and care will remind people of the quote by American business CEO Thomas Watson Sr., “To be successful, you have to have your heart in […]
Co-work Co-Win Training Centre Limited is a social enterprise, which provides workforce solutions. This GBPEI client is combining his experience working in governmental social welfare departments with his entrepreneurial spirit to bring an employment-based social enterprise to PEI. Co-work Co-win Training Centre Limited is a social enterprise because it’s a company with a social goal. Social enterprises strive to make a profit while also addressing a need or a solution to a problem in a community such as, housing, food insecurity or job training. This client was able to start this business, located on 271 Water Street, in the summer […]
At Orwell Corner, you can experience what life for some people on PEI would have been like in the Nineteenth Century. The village has been preserved to reflect the late 1800s, the same era L.M. Montgomery wrote and set her famous novel, Anne of Green Gables. You can easily spend the whole day exploring Orwell Corner in Vernon Bridge. You can visit a blacksmith shop, schoolhouse, general store, and farm. The farm, which operates using the same methods and equipment as it were 1895, is home to many animals including oxen, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens. There are lovely gardens […]
The PEI Office of Immigration issued Invitation to Apply (ITA) to PEI PNP potential applicants on July 15, 2021. Business Impact Category 9 business owners and senior managers received an ITA. The minimum score for an ITA was 75, which was 15 points higher than the last round. The rise of the score was because the PEI Office of Immigration invited less candidates than June. We anticipate the low cut-off score will be more or less the same in the next round, but in order to be safe, we recommend your EOI score to be at around 80. Labour Impact […]
Most people strive to live a more balanced and fulfilling life, and the Holistic Wellness Training Centre on Ottawa Street in Summerside offers professional and personal programs to help people achieve their goals. About 40 people recently celebrated the grand opening of the Holistic Wellness Training Centre where they participated in some activities and had to opportunity to meet the two staff members, a yoga instructor, and an art teacher. In only about two years, this client went from the PEI PNP application stage to opening his centre and becoming an active part of the PEI community! He first submitted […]
Head to Toes Beauty: Refresh Your SoulOur client brought her extensive knowledge and experience in the beauty industry to Summerside when she opened the full-service salon, Head to Toes Beauty in June, 2021. This client was able to open her business just over a year after she had her Provincial Nominee Program: Business Impact Stream interview with the Office of Immigration. She received her Work Permit Support Letter about a week later, and her Work Permit followed two months after that. Due to pandemic-related travel delays, she arrived on PEI in the winter of 2021, and celebrated the grand opening […]
The client who owns Abacus Services Inc. is a Certified Public Accountant has a vision to bring cloud-based business and bookkeeping solutions to the many small and medium-sized businesses on PEI. This GBPEI client success story started in 2019 when she was first accepted into the PEI PNP Business Impact Stream. In June, 2019, she received her Work Permit Support Letter and four months later she was approved for a work permit! She and her family relocated to PEI in the spring of 2020 and started Abacus Services Inc, which has been in business for over one year. Although Abacus […]
