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QUEBEC SKILLED WORKER PROGRAM

If you wish to immigrate to Québec under Permanent Worker category, you should:

• acquire good knowledge of French and English before arriving in Québec.
• find out the conditions for practicing your profession or trade.
• create a network of personal and professional contacts as soon as you arrive or even earlier, during exploratory visits to Québec.
• learn interview and writing techniques that will enable you to compile a curriculum vitae as customary in Québec.
• accept a job other than the one you were seeking or one involving less responsibility, while you acquire Québec experience or obtain training.
• evaluate the cost in Québec, including the expenses of settling in.
• understand the difference between the selection and the admission of workers—the respective roles of the Gouvernement du Québec and the Government of Canada.

The requirements for skilled workers

To be selected as a skilled worker, you must, in particular:

• settle in Québec with the goal of being employed there
• hold at least one diploma that corresponds, in the Québec education system, to a Secondary School Diploma or a Diploma of Vocational Studies
• have acquired training and occupational skills that will facilitate your insertion into the job market
• meet the passing score under selection factors

Selection factors

• schooling.
• work experience.
• age.
• knowledge of French and English.
• stays in Québec
• family relationship with a Canadian citizen or a permanent Québec resident.
• a valid employment offer.
• characteristics regarding your accompanying spouse.
• the number of children under the age of 22.
• financial self-sufficiency.
• adaptability.

Points will be awarded. The assessment of your application will help to determine if you obtain a sufficient number of points to be selected by Québec.