Quebec Immigrant Investor

The class of independent immigrants includes a foreign national at least 18 years of age who is designated as an investor if:

* He has experience in management in a legal farming, commercial or industrial business, or in a legal professional business where the staff, excluding the investor, occupies at least the equivalent of 2 full-time jobs, or for an international agency or a government or one of its departments or agencies;

* He has, alone or with his accompanying spouse, including de facto-spouse, net assets of at least $1.6 Million obtained legally, excluding the amounts received by donation less than 6 months before the date on which the application was filed;

* He comes to settle and to invest in Quebec;

Management experience is defined as:

The assuming, for at least 2 years in the 5 years preceding the application for a selection certificate, of duties related to the planning, management and control of financial resources and of human or material resources under the investor's authority; the experience does not include the experience acquired in the context of an apprenticeship, training or specialization process attested to by a diploma.