Skilled Workers

Quebec invited 1,195 skilled workers to apply for permanent selection .

Quebec has announced its Immigration Plan for 2024 and 2025, focusing on increasing French-speaking immigrants and boosting French language proficiency among newcomers through "Francisation Quebec."

Quebec workplaces can now have up to 20% temporary foreign workers on staff.

Details from the first two draws through Quebec's Arrima ‎system have been released

Quebec has introduced major changes in PEQ program for international students and those with work experience in Quebec which must meet in order to obtain permanent residence .

More Quebec employers are turning to temporary foreign workers to address labour shortages in the province

Quebec Premier François Legault addressed his government’s controversial move to dismiss a backlog of 18,000 pending skilled worker applications Thursday, saying the province will prioritize 3,700 applications from candidates already working in the province on temporary permits.

Employers in Quebec can enjoy a simplified, or facilitated, hiring process of foreign workers in certain occupations after the government of Quebec expanded the list of Occupations that are exempt from labor market impact assessment (LMIA) advertisement requirement. in the province.

There were 462,000 job vacancies across Canada in the first quarter of 2018, with Quebec reporting the largest year-over-year increase for the three-month period, according to new figures from Statistics Canada. Job vacancies in Quebec were up by 25,000 in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 37 percent over the first three months of 2017.

Quebec Immigration recently announced that it intends to cap the intake of new applications in the Immigrant Investor, Self-Employed Worker and Entrepreneur programs in an attempt to reduce processing times. The Skilled Worker program will also be divided into two groups, one of which will have a cap. The decision is still pending approval by the National Assembly of Quebec and would be retroactive from March 21, 2012. The proposed caps are as follows:

Although it has not officially announced but rumor has it that the Investor program of Quebec province will reopen and accept limited applications as of August 01.2013. Due to the fact that the program has been closed for more than a year therefore the reopening is eagerly anticipated. We will provide more detailed information on parameters of the investment, new application fees and quotas to all shortly.

A total of 305 candidates for Quebec immigration have been invited over two Arrima draws in December.

Quebec has invited 444 foreign workers to apply for a Quebec Selection Certificate in a draw held August 19.

Quebec's immigration ministry released details of an immigration draw held February 24.
Quebec invited 306 skilled workers to apply for permanent selection on February 24.

Quebec's immigration ministry released details of the third immigration draw held this year.
Quebec invited 523 skilled workers to apply for permanent selection on February 10.

MIDI says several invitation rounds will be held between now and January 16, 2020

From August 16-22, 2016, the Ministère will receive 5,000 selection certificate applications under the Regular Skilled Worker Program. Starting at 8:30 a.m. (Montréal time), applicants who wish to access Mon projet Québec will be automatically directed to a virtual waiting room that will allow them to keep their place in line. Their position in line and the number of people waiting ahead of them will be displayed on screen.

Exercising its right under the Canada-Quebec Accord is in the province’s economic interests

On March 2 Quebec invited 1,017 candidates to apply for permanent selection through Quebec’s Regular Skilled Worker program. The results of the draw were published this week.

Overall admissions remain the same as 2022 with little change throughout all categories.