Applicants must have at least two years of management experience. This experience must have been acquired within five years preceding the submission of an application.  Applicants are expected to establish having control over the financial, human, and material resources of a company.

This experience cannot have been acquired in the companies operating in the industry of payday loans, cashing cheques, pledges loans or withing the sex industry.

Applicants must hold a diploma corresponding minimally to a secondary school diploma. They must also have French language knowledge corresponding minimally to level 7 according to the  Échelle québécoise des niveaux de compétence en français (PDF 4.94 Mb) (Québec scale of French proficiency levels). The language test must be less than two years old at the time of submission of the application.

The language test must be less than two years old at the time of submission of the application.

The immigrant investor can apply with his spouse and dependent children under the age of 22 years old.

There is an exception for a child of 22 years and older depending substantially on the financial support of the parent since before the age of 22 and being unable to be financially self-supporting due to a physical or mental condition.

The age of the dependent child is locked-in at the date of receipt of the application by the Quebec government (OP 1, 5.24).

While the federal government will usually focus on admissibility considerations (such as security background and medical condition), it has the competence to review every program eligibility conditions until the applicant’s landing in Canada.

One of the most important conditions of the program is for the applicant to settle himself and his family in the province of Quebec after the granting of the permanent residency status.