You may get a “certificate of selection” (COS) from Quebec through to the fast-track program: Quebec Experience Program after working in Quebec for the duration of one year full-time (at least 30 hours per week) on a work permit in most occupations or having completed an eligible program of study. In both cases, French language requirements have to be met at the COS application stage. Once you get a COS, the Canadian Permanent Residency may be granted after a successful medical and criminal check. Depending on your profile and on the periodic employers’ needs, we might be able to match you with an employer and represent you in this administrative process until all the necessary immigration documentation is approved. Get in contact with us to know the most recent job opportunities or reserve your spot in the bank of candidates for future labor needs.

In most cases, in order to offer a job to a foreigner (i.e. not Canadian citizen or Permanent resident) as an eligible employer located in the Province of Quebec, the employer has to get a positive or neutral Labor Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to show to the Canadian Authorities that no Canadian Citizens or Permanent residents were able to fill the labor shortage after having done recruitment efforts as indicated in the regulations.

Coming from the province of Quebec in Canada, we are presently most capable of providing job offers located in that province to fill labor shortages and assist those willing to study to make their immigration project achievable under the PEQ.

We work constantly with employers located in the province of Quebec and represent them in front of provincial and federal authorities to get the proper documentation to hire foreigners.

Depending on your profile and on the periodic employers’ needs, we might be able to match you with an employer and represent you in this administrative process until all the necessary immigration documentation is approved. Get in contact with us to know the most recent job opportunities or reserve your spot in the bank of candidates for future labor needs.

Quebec has created a new skilled workers program, similarly to the Express Entry system applying to the rest of Canada, to manage its own selection of applicants intending to settle in the province.

Applicants are ranked in a pool and the province selects the best profiles depending on its needs. Speaking French to a certain level is almost inevitable in that scoring system to be competitive. For those with lower scores, a permanent job offer validated in Quebec will certainly improve the score and ease the settlement with an employment already secured. In those cases, depending on the profile and the employers’ needs, we might be able to provide a permanent validated job offer as we work with employers located in the province of Quebec.

Here is the list of factors for the ranking of applicants:

1. Your training (level of education and area of training). Please note that since December 31, 2015, only diplomas obtained before the submission of your application are considered in the attribution of points for the Education Level criterion

2. Your work experience

3. Your age

4. Your knowledge of French and English

5. Your stays in Québec and family relationship with a Canadian citizen or a permanent Québec resident

6. Having an employment offer validated by the Ministère

7. Characteristics of your accompanying spouse or de facto spouse, if applicable

8. Other factors, incuding the number of children under the age of 22 who will be accompanying you to Québec

9. Your capacity for financial self-sufficiency (you must sign a contract in which you undertake to provide for your needs and your family’s needs for at least the first three months following your arrival in Québec)

If you speak French at an intermediate level, or if you learning or willing to learn, this program might be the ideal way to get your Canadian Permanent residency.

Express Entry Skilled Workers

Based on a point test, the Government of Canada has been selecting the highest scoring applicants since 2015 in their Express Entry pool. There are minimum requirements to be met to be eligible to register:

1. Be at least 18 years old.

2. Have at least 6.0 IELTS (General Training Exam) on all four abilities (or the equivalent in a TEF Canada French test.

3. Have at least one year full-time of continuous work experience in high or semi-skilled occupation.

4. Have at least a Canadian high-school diploma or the equivalent.

5. Have at least 67 points on the eligibility point test.

Once an applicant has been selected or invited to apply (ITA) for the Permanent residency (PR), he has to show that he has sufficient funds to support his family and the main applicant and his spouse and dependents will have to pass the medical and criminal check

Provincial Nomination Programs

There are provincial nomination programs in almost every Canadian province and most of these programs are now linked with the Federal Express Entry system. A nomination can make all the difference as it can raise substantially the Comprehensive ranking score of an applicant in the pool.

These programs are normally targeting applicants with work experience in specific occupations to fill their labor shortages identified in the provinces. We can assist you in finding the right programs to get a nomination and be invited to apply for the PR.

Program requirements:

1. Self-employed person means a foreign national who has relevant experience, intends and is able to be self-employed in Canada, and can contribute to Canada’s economy in one of the required areas.

2. Score at least 35 on the self-employed point test.

3. Relevant experience for a self-employed person means at least two years of experience within the last five years of the application. The experience must be:

for cultural activities:

two one-year periods being self-employed in cultural activities (A), or two one-year periods participating at a world-class level in cultural activities (B), or a combination of a one-year period described in A above, and a one-year period described in B above.

for athletics:

two one-year periods being self-employed in athletics (A), or two one-year periods participating at a world class level in athletics (B), or a combination of a one-year period described in A above, and a one-year period described in B above, and

for buying and managing a farm, two one-year periods managing a farm.

If you have had some success with your self-employed work in the country where you reside as described above you might be suitable to get the Permanent residency through that business program. That program still works on a first-arrived, first-served basis. We can assist you in applying for that program after determining if you are eligible.