Please wait for 9 more days and hopefully in less than 9 days you will know all the rules how they will treat the old applications which are filed before 31st July, 2013, but if you see the new rules posted on Quebec immigration's website, you will see under new rules for investors (i know we all are under QSW), you will notice if investors have advanced intermediate level then they will prioritize the application. I feel as they have reduced the number of files to 20,000 in a financial year, so they will only pick those files which are at least have higher level of area of training points (16/12) and who have B2 level of French. All these are speculations......better at least those who have already submitted their files, wait for the new rules, and those who think their files are complete, please file before 31st July, 2013. Every fee cheque has a expiry date, e.g., 3 months from date of issue/6 months from date of issue, if they don't encash those cheques before the validity ends then they will not process the files and maybe they will return the packet and i feel they are aware of the validity of cheques.