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Quebec — Skilled Worker Selection (PSTQ): how long it takes, what it costs, and whether it leads to permanent residence
Quebec
Quebec selection — not Express Entry
Quebec’s skilled-worker selection program, run separately from federal Express Entry and not a PNP. File a free déclaration d’intérêt in Arrima. An invitation may lead to a Certificat de sélection du Québec. A CSQ is not permanent residence. After a CSQ you submit a separate IRCC application; that federal stage has its own medical, security and criminality checks.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
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Does Quebec — Skilled Worker Selection (PSTQ) lead to permanent residence?
- Residency
Temporary — not a permanent-residence route on its own
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
Do you need a job offer for Quebec — Skilled Worker Selection (PSTQ)?
- Job offer
Not required
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
How much does Quebec — Skilled Worker Selection (PSTQ) cost to apply for?
- Application fee
No amount stored
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
How long does Quebec — Skilled Worker Selection (PSTQ) take to process?
- Processing time
No duration published; the authority points to a guidance tool
Open the authority's page for this fact
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
What does ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration actually require?
Quoted from the pages named beside each rule, not paraphrased.
- Age
Pour déposer une déclaration d’intérêt, vous devez avoir 18 ans ou plus. Age is not published as a hard upper cut-off.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
- Language
French floors differ by volet. The 2026 invitation synthesis: Volet 1 oral 7+ and written 5+; Volet 2 oral 5+ and no written invitation criterion; Volet 3 follows FEER; Volet 4 has no French invitation criterion applied. An accompanying spouse, where required, needs oral 4+. No ranking points are currently awarded for English.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
What ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration does not publish
We checked for each of these and the page carried no figure. The absence is recorded with the reason, so this page states nothing the authority does not.
Processing time
No fixed processing duration is published on the PSTQ hub. The page is stored as the guidance URL.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
Application fee
La déclaration d’intérêt se fait en ligne gratuitement dans Arrima. The selection-application fee page was not opened; no selection fee is stored.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
How it works
- 1File a free déclaration d’intérêt in Arrima. Quebec selection is separate from Express Entry and is not a PNP.
- 2If invited, apply for a CSQ. A CSQ is not permanent residence.
- 3Then apply to IRCC for permanent residence. That federal stage has its own medical, security and criminality checks.
What changed when we last checked this record
PSTQ hub, exigences, invitation, 2026 synthesis and after-CSQ pages opened 2026-08-16. Ranking score is not a pass mark. Gazette 85952.pdf and erratum 86001.pdf were opened 2026-08-19 (signed 20 June 2025; published and in force 2 July 2025; erratum 9 July 2025). Financial-autonomy dollar amounts were not opened. Arrima’s foreign-diploma mapping is not invented. A CSQ is not permanent residence.
Source: ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration · verified 2026-08-16
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