Quebec Immigration: Quebec Experience Program (PEQ)

The Quebec Experience Program (Programme de l’expérience québécoise, or PEQ) provides a fast-track way for foreign graduates and individuals with work experience in Quebec to obtain a Quebec selection certificate — a mandatory step towards permanent residency that is granted by the federal government. Unlike other Canadian provinces, Quebec's case is unique because of the Quebec-Canada Agreement, in effect since April 1991, which gives Quebec the authority to select its economic immigrants in the skilled worker category.