Under the Quebec immigration law, prospective applicants intending to settle in the province of Quebec are required to file an application for a Quebec Certificate of Selection with one of nine Quebec government offices located outside of Canada. Once an application has resulted in a positive selection decision, the applicant is required to submit an application for permanent residence with a Canadian visa office. Upon the applicant, successfully completing the required federal statutory verifications of security and criminality, including health, permanent residency visa will be issued. The Quebec immigration processing time is shorter compared to the processing time under the Federal program.
Skilled Workers
The skilled worker class of immigrants under the Quebec law is defined as an applicant who:
Skilled worker applicants are assessed under a selection grid comprised of nine major factors that include: education, employment, experience, age, language, adaptability and spousal suitability, dependent children and financial self-sufficiency leading to other criteria and sub-criteria. Successful unmarried applicants must obtain 60 out of a possible 106 points, while a married person must obtain 68 of a maximum 123 points.
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Business
The business class in Quebec program as in the case of Federal program is comprised of Investors, Entrepreneurs and Self-employed applicants. They are required to successfully complete a mandatory pre-screening evaluation.To find out whether you quality for immigration under this category, please click here to complete our questionnaire.
1. Investor
An investor is defined as a foreign national with three years of management experience in a lawful and profitable agricultural, industrial or commercial enterprise, in a government body or an international body and who possesses a personal net worth of $1.600,000 accumulated through lawful economic activities. The investor must also undertake to invest $800,000 for five years, in a prescribed investment. Management experience is defined as “the exercise, for at least two years in the five years preceding the application for a selection certificate, of duties related to the planning, management and control of financial resources and of human or material resources under your authority; provided that such responsibilities and duties are not assumed in the context of an apprenticeship, training, or specialization process attested to by a diploma”.
The Quebec government authorities, when assessing applications, give the definition of management experience a narrow interpretation.
2. Entrepreneur
An Entrepreneur is defined as a foreign national with three years of management experience in a lawful and profitable agricultural, industrial or commercial enterprise and who will establish, acquire or participate in the active management of a lawful and profitable agricultural, industrial or commercial enterprise that will immediately employ three full-time residents of Quebec, other than the foreign national and his accompanying dependants.
The applicant must have a minimum of three years of applicable management experience, possess a personal net worth of $300,000 acquired legally and, have sufficient additional settlement funding to cover the cost of the applicant’s first three months of living expenses in Quebec. Prospective entrepreneur applicants are assessed under a selection grid covering eight major factors of consideration including: personal net worth, financial self-sufficiency, education, experience, age, language, adaptability, and aptitudes to carry out a business project. There is no consideration for the marital status of the applicant.
Successful pre-selection entrepreneur applicants are invited to an interview, encouraged to undertake exploratory visit to Quebec and defend a business plan covering knowledge of Quebec, market research, financial resources and feasibility of business project.
In addition, upon your arrival in Québec, you must comply, for at least one year during the three years after obtaining permanent resident status, with the following conditions:
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