Quebec’s First 2020 Expression of Interest Draw Sees 23 Invites Issued

Details have been released of the first 2020 draw to take place through Quebec’s Arrima Expression of Interest system.

In the January 16 draw, 23 Quebec immigration invitations were issued.

The candidates invited 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 in Quebec on June 16, 2019 while holding a study or work permit.

Candidates receiving an invitation have 60 days to submit a full application.

The was the first draw of 2020. Quebec issued a total of 2,072 invitations in nine draws in 2019.

Quebec Immigration January 16 Draw

Date of invitations	Invites Issued	Date of extraction from Arrima bank
16-Jan-20	23	January 16, 2020 at 6.30am

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.