Application for Selection Certificate and supporting documents - Programme de l'expérience québécoise (PEQ) - temporary workers

Here are the forms and supporting items to provide to apply for a Certificat de sélection du Québec (CSQ – Québec selection system) as a temporary worker under the PEQ.

Documents written in a language other than French or English must be accompanied by an official translation into French or English.

If you are alone:

• Demande de certificat de sélection du Québec - Programme de l'expérience québécoise (PEQ) - Travailleur temporaire (Dynamic PDF, 705 Kb) (The English version will be available soon)

• Checklist
• Contract respecting financial self-sufficiency
• Legible photocopy of identity pages of your passport
• Original or certified true copy of proof of intermediate-level knowledge of oral French (academic transcript, standardized tests recognized by the Ministère de l'Immigration et des Communautés culturelles or attestation of having satisfied the language requirements of a professional order in Québec)
• Full and exact payment of fee to process your application
  
  If you wish to pay by credit card, enclose the completed Payment by credit card form.

• Certified true copy of the employment contract or original of an employer letter on company letterhead giving the job title and description, the employment period, and the number of hours worked per week
• Photocopy of at least three pay statements, including a statement from the start of the job and the most recent

If you are or have been self-employed on a full-time basis:

• Sufficient proof of your income and number of hours worked, for example: certified true copy of each work contract by contractor or employer, original of the letter from contractors, photocopy of your invoices or fee receipts
• Photocopy of your last Québec income tax return including copy of the statement of your income and expenses (Schedule L and form TP-80), where applicable
• Photocopy of the last notice of assessment issued by Revenu Québec, where applicable
• Photocopy of your enterprise registration, where applicable

If you are accompanied by your spouse or de facto spouse, also enclose:

• Declaration by spouse or de facto spouse (included in the form)
• Legible photocopy of passport identity pages
• Photocopy of the marriage certificate or your family booklet and, for a de facto spouse, original or certified true copy of sufficient official written proof of the duration of your co-habitation (e.g., joint investments, will, mortgage, shared responsibilities for children, letter from a bank stating how long you have had a joint bank account, written declarations by witnesses, proof of property, Pacte civil de solidarité (PACS – Civil pact of solidarity), copy of a lease, utility bill in both your names, etc.)

If you are accompanied by one or more dependent children, also enclose:

• Legible photocopy of the act of birth or adoption of each child included in your application or photocopy of your family booklet
  
  

If a child accompanying you is born of a previous union:

• Certified true copy of the court judgment stating the terms of custody of the child
• Original of a letter signed by the non-accompanying parent expressly authorizing the immigration of the child or certified true copy of the act of death of this parent
  
  

If a dependent child accompanying you is age 22 or older, or is a spouse or de facto spouse:

• Application for selection certificate – Dependent child aged 22 or older or who is married or a de facto spouse (PDF, 193 Kb)
• Proof that the child has been studying full time, without interruption, since the age of 22, by enclosing a certified true copy of academic transcripts for each year of studies completed since age 22 or since his marriage, if he married or became a de facto spouse before the age of 22, or certified true copy of the medical certificate attesting to his physical or psychological disability.
• If the child is not single, act of marriage proving that he married or became a de facto spouse before the age of 22