FSW - moving to Montreal/Quebec after landing

[jamieh]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before.

Do you know if you can move to Quebec after landing in another non-Quebec region? Old posts on the topic suggest that you can, but it's hard to find a sure answer.

I'm thinking of landing in Toronto and going on to Montreal after a couple of months. I have friends in Toronto that I can use as a base address for PR cards etc.

Or is this completely frowned upon?

Thanks!

 

[idefix]

Hi all,

Apologies if this has been asked before.

Do you know if you can move to Quebec after landing in another non-Quebec region? Old posts on the topic suggest that you can, but it's hard to find a sure answer.

I'm thinking of landing in Toronto and going on to Montreal after a couple of months. I have friends in Toronto that I can use as a base address for PR cards etc.

Or is this completely frowned upon?

Thanks!

Frowned upon is a very light term. The risk is that they may not renew your PR card if you don't play by the rules. Or further down the road they may deny your application for citizenship as rules are specific for Quebec.

But I'm very interested in learning if there are real life-cases of somebody that did either Federal -> Quebec or Quebec -> Federal and managed to get their PR renewed.

On old topics, people that did it said they have stayed for a few months on their original location and tried to demonstrate they searched for jobs. So they tried to become economically established on their original location but couldn't.

But I haven't heard a consistent feedback on whether somebody that did it managed to renew their PR after.

 

[idefix]

See namaste's very informative response:

It is okay and completely legal to relocate to Quebec after getting PR through FSW program. Once you get the PR, it doesn't matter how you got it (except if applying through provincial programs that might have residential clause associated with them). So, there is absolutely no negative consequence (on renewing PR for example) if one does decide to live in Quebec. One only needs to intend to live outside of Quebec when applying.