Spouse Immigration to Quebec - Non French speaker

[Ludovick]

Hi,

My fiancee is from Philippines, we'Re gonna be marry next week, after we will start the long immigration process
I'm a French Canadian and plan to bring her to live in Montreal. She does not speak French at all, only English and Tagalog. I'm wondering if there's any risk that her application will be rejected because she don't speak French?

thanks in advance!

 

[canadianwoman]

Applicants to Quebec have to promise to learn French; they don't have to know it already.

 

[missmini]

Hi,

My fiancee is from Philippines, we'Re gonna be marry next week, after we will start the long immigration process
I'm a French Canadian and plan to bring her to live in Montreal. She does not speak French at all, only English and Tagalog. I'm wondering if there's any risk that her application will be rejected because she don't speak French?

thanks in advance!

i do not think speaking french would cause a rejection from qc part, not for family class; my partner does not speak french either but for sure he needs to start learning at some point during the process; the inland applicants can already enroll to french classes once they get the CSQ so i assume not speaking french initially is not a big issue....but some forms to apply for the CSQ have to be filled in French only so i assume we would b their representatives...we didn't reach that stage, we will see

why not join the quebec inland and outland threads and ask there too good luck!

 

[Jurjen]

It's no problem, but indeed: she needs to promise that she'll try to learn the language. Just as a tip for learning French faster: don't go live in Montreal. ;-)

 

[missmini]

It's no problem, but indeed: she needs to promise that she'll try to learn the language. Just as a tip for learning French faster: don't go live in Montreal. ;-)

hmm intersting but when will u make this promise? do u have an interview with MICC? is it part of the forms for CSQ? (u promise and u sign something) maybe for outland is different than inland :/

and then, how will they make sure that u kept ur promise? :/

 

[limanoid]

hmm intersting but when will u make this promise? do u have an interview with MICC? is it part of the forms for CSQ? (u promise and u sign something) maybe for outland is different than inland :/

and then, how will they make sure that u kept ur promise? :/

After your outland sponsorship is accepted by Mississauga, you have to send in forms to the MICC. There is a declaration that your spouse would sign that states she promises to learn French and integrate herself. I'm guessing there is a similar form for inland applicants. There is no interview in French with the MICC.

They will have no idea if you followed through with your promise. And they won't kick her out if she doesn't learn it either. She just will find it difficult to get a job. But Quebec does give plenty of resources to have you learn. The applicant can get up to $2500 back if they pass French classes taken abroad with the alliance francaise. There are classes that they can take free in Quebec.

 

[missmini]

After your outland sponsorship is accepted by Mississauga, you have to send in forms to the MICC. There is a declaration that your spouse would sign that states she promises to learn French and integrate herself. I'm guessing there is a similar form for inland applicants. There is no interview in French with the MICC.

They will have no idea if you followed through with your promise. And they won't kick her out if she doesn't learn it either. She just will find it difficult to get a job. But Quebec does give plenty of resources to have you learn. The applicant can get up to $2500 back if they pass French classes taken abroad with the alliance francaise. There are classes that they can take free in Quebec.

thaaaaaaank u limanoid yes for sure there's nothing much u can do without french in quebec and he will learn....all is clearer now; good luck!

 

[Ines]

My husband does not speak French and we had no problem with that. And there was no promise to learn French.

 

[Darque]

The principal sponsored person signs a declaration on page 3/4 of the "selection-famille-en-dyn" form, which states the following as well as agreeing to Quebec's common values:

I DECLARE that I wish to live in Québec within the framework of and abiding by its common values, and that I want to learn French, if I do not speak it already.

 

[Jurjen]

My husband does not speak French and we had no problem with that. And there was no promise to learn French.

That means you two put your signatures on documents without reading them?

 

[Ines]

That means you two put your signatures on documents without reading them?

Haha! We read the documents. But maybe we don't rememmber that details because we already knew that once a person is selected to live in Quebec, learning French becomes mandatory for them and my husband had enrolled for French classes in USA but then he had to drop them because of lack of time.