As promised, Quebec’s fast-track everlasting residency pathway is being reinstated.
The provincial authorities is reopening the Quebec Expertise Program (PEQ) for 2 years.
These eligible for the PEQ previous to it being scrapped final fall can start submitting a brand new software July 2.
Between 8,000 and 12,000 individuals could possibly be eligible, and there can be no cap, in keeping with Immigration Minister François Bonnardel. That is removed from the earlier estimates from his ministry, which have been round 125,000.
The CAQ closed the favored immigration program in November.
At a press convention Wednesday on the Nationwide Meeting, Bonnardel said that these projections have been very excessive, however that the federal government is now extra exact in regards to the eligibility interval.
The primary software interval can be for many who met the eligibility necessities on November 19, 2025, when this system was closed.
The appliance interval will open on July 2 and run till Oct. 31.
A second software interval will comply with, however with totally different standards which might be but to be decided.
–With recordsdata from La Presse Canadienne
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