Quebec Immigration Plan for 2024 and 2025
The province will invite even more candidates – but necessarily with knowledge of French.
Quebec Premier François Legault, Minister of Immigration, Franchization and Integration Christine Fréchette and Minister of French Jean-François Roberge unveiled the details of Quebec's Immigration Plan 2024 and the final directions of Quebec's Immigration Plan 2024 and 2025 at a briefing at the National Assembly of Quebec. Canada's overall immigration plan for the next three years can be viewed at this link.
In its program document for 2024 and 2025, the Quebec provincial government has outlined key areas of work, among them:
- Increase francophone immigration and French language proficiency among immigrants through the "Francization of Quebec" program;
- Increase in the share of economic immigration — up to 64% in 2024;
- Encouraging immigration of young people to offset Quebec's aging population;
- Ensuring, in collaboration with the federal government, that skilled workers are found and that the residence permission is issued within 12 months;
- Promoting the integration of all categories of immigrants into the labor market;
- Continued reception of refugees and people seeking asylum;
- Maintaining immigration targets of 50,000 people per year — but this number does NOT include candidates coming under the program for professionals with Quebec experience (Programme de l'expérience québécoise), and therefore in practice immigrants will be well over 50,000.
Economic immigration
Under the principles described, most immigration will be categorized as economic. Admissions under this category will remain at 31,950 persons in 2024 and 2025.
Skilled workers will make up the majority of arrivals in these flows. The target for skilled workers will increase from 30,650 in 2024 to 31,500 in 2025.
For those immigrating under the Programme de l'expérience québécoise, there is no admission ceiling. In 2024, it is expected to be around 6,500.
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