Quebec is a province of Canada that is located in the east central area of the country. Quebec is known to be largest province of the Maple Leaf Country, in the terms of geographical area and is second largest administrative province of the nation.
French is used as the elementary language in this province and not only this, French is also the sole official language as well in Quebec. The province has predominately French speaking population and the major population of this province is inhabited in the areas near Saint Lawrence River, between Montreal and the Quebec City, which is also the capital of the Quebec.
Quebec immigration programmes and rules are not exactly same as the all other Canadian immigration rules, they differ a lot. The rules and regulations of the Quebec immigration programmes are decided by the Government of Quebec and federal Canada in collaboration.
The immigration process initially states various set of eligibility criteria and other requirements that one has to follow to initiate the process. The immigration programme for the business immigrants is totally handled by the Quebec government.
There are various categories under this immigration programme. The desiring migrant has to check his/her eligibility under these various categories namely investor, entrepreneur and the self-employed worker and apply to the immigration category accordingly.
The foremost task is to get a selection certificate, and for this purposes you have to clear the interview conducted by the immigration authorities of the Quebec government. Once you have cleared the interview, a certicate of selection, called Certificat de sélection du Québec is awarded to you.
This document certifies that you have been permitted to enter the Quebec province by the Quebec immigration authorities and Quebec government. Still, the final approval is provided by the authorities of federal Canada. Once you have attained the approval from Quebec government, in the form of Quebec selection certificate, you can apply for approval from federal Canadian government.
After this entire process unfolds, the applicant then can look forward to apply for the Permanent Residence (PR). He needs to go through various medical clearances and security related formalities while applying for the PR in the province.
If the candidate holds any serious health issues or anybody belonging to the family of the applicant, then PR to that aspirant can be likely denied. Not only can this, if the candidate is found with suspicious criminal background, in that case also PR be denied on the security grounds.
Once you have arrived in the Quebec through this process then you are eligible for all the Canadian citizen rights. After residing 3 years in the province, you can apply for the citizenship of the Canada.
Quebec immigration programmes hold various other types of immigration programmes and categories for the foreign students, permanent workers and the refugees as well. These programmes dictate various options for aspirants in the sponsored and non sponsored categories of immigration.
One can get detailed information about all the rules and regulation from the easily accessible Quebec immigration site.
