{"id":173162,"date":"2018-07-25T03:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173162"},"modified":"2018-07-25T03:21:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T07:21:01","slug":"changes-quebecs-investor-entrepreneur-self-employed-worker-programs-coming-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/25\/changes-quebecs-investor-entrepreneur-self-employed-worker-programs-coming-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to Quebec\u2019s Investor, Entrepreneur and Self-Employed Worker programs coming August 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_173163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Optimized-Quebec-business-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173163\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Optimized-Quebec-business-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-173163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candidates for Quebec\u2019s popular Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) will now have to meet higher net asset and investment requirements, which are rising to CAD $2 million and CAD $1.2 million, respectively. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2018\/07\/changes-to-quebecs-investor-entrepreneur-and-self-employed-worker-programs-coming-august-2-0710928.html#gs.u_iMnOc\">Photo: CIC News<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Significant changes to Quebec\u2019s Immigrant Investor, Entrepreneur and Self-Employed Worker programs are due to take effect August 2.<\/p>\n<p>Among the modifications are new or higher capital investment requirements for all three programs.<\/p>\n<p>Candidates for Quebec\u2019s popular Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP) will now have to meet higher net asset and investment requirements, which are rising to CAD $2 million and CAD $1.2 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The previous requirements were net assets of CAD $1.6 million and an investment of CAD $800,000.<\/p>\n<p>The investment must be for a five-year term with a subsidiary of Investissement Quebec and the investment agreement must be made through a financial intermediary authorized to participate in the QIIP.<\/p>\n<p>The QIIP received 1,900 applications during its most recent application intake period, which took place between\u00a0April 1, 2017, and March 31, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec has suspended new applications to this program until August 15 as it struggles to clear a backlog of applications to all three of its business immigration programs.<\/p>\n<p>A new intake period is expected to commence September 10, 2018, for 1,900 applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant changes to Quebec\u2019s Immigrant Investor, Entrepreneur and Self-Employed Worker programs are due to take effect August 2. Among the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":173163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","mauthors-marylene-garacci-and-stephen-smith","mauthors-cic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}