Quebec Invites 950 Candidates In First Draws Through New Arrima System

Quebec issued 950 invitations in the first two draws made through its Expression of Interest immigration system, the Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion (MIDI) has revealed.

Details of the draws, which took place on July 4 and July 17, were published on the MIDI website on August 20, 2019.

These are the first draws to take place under the system, known as Arrima, which was launched a year ago in August 2018.

The first draws took so long as the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) went about cancelling the backlog of thousands of applications under the old Quebec Skilled Worker Program application system.

The first Arrima draws had specific requirements.

In the July 4 draw, 691 invites were issued to candidate who met the following criteria:

Their application to the Quebec Skilled Worker Program under the old system was terminated as part of the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec’s Bill 9.
They filed an Arrima Expression of Interest before December 17, 2019.
They were in one of the following situations:
- Their terminated application was submitted pursuant to section 5.01 of the Regulation respecting the selection of foreign nationals, OR
- They were staying in Quebec on June 16, 2019 while holding a study or work permit.

In the July 17 draw, 259 invites were issued to candidates who met the following criteria:

They held a validated job offer.
They were in Quebec as a diplomatic agent, consular officer, representative or a duly accredited official of a foreign country or of the United Nations. For more information, read section 26 of the Regulation respecting immigration to Québec (CQLR, chapter I-0.2.1, r.3).

Quebec Expression Of Interest Draws 2019

Date of invitations	Invites Issued	Date of extraction from Arrima bank
17-Jul-19	259	July 15, 2019 at 6:30
04-Jul-19	691	July 2, 2019 at 6:30

Colin Singer

Colin Singer is an international acclaimed Canadian immigration lawyer and founder of immigration.ca featured on Wikipedia. Colin Singer is also founding director of the Canadian Citizenship & Immigration Resource Center (CCIRC) Inc. He served as an Associate Editor of ‘Immigration Law Reporter’, the pre-eminent immigration law publication in Canada. He previously served as an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Quebec and National Immigration Law Sections and is currently a member of the Canadian Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Colin has twice appeared as an expert witness before Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. He is frequently recognized as a recommended authority at national conferences sponsored by government and non-government organizations on matters affecting Canada’s immigration and human resource industries. Since 2009, Colin has been a Governor of the Quebec Bar Foundation a non-profit organization committed to the advancement of the profession, and became a lifetime member in 2018.