Immigrant Investor program Canada & Quebec

The Canadian and Quebec business immigration programs offer business people and their families the opportunity to immigrate to Canada as Immigrant Investors in about 16 months under . This special investor immigration program allows immigrants to obtain the Immigrant investor Visa which is a permanent residency visa , leading to the Canadian citizenship and passport . This program is available to business people and managers holding any citizenship from any country and there are no quotas per country unlike other types of immigration. There are not age limitations and no language or education requirements. Investor Immigration to Canada is the best solution available to qualified managers and business people.

As a result you might receive your Canadian Permanent Residency for your direct family in about 16 months and your direct family will become Canadian Citizens and receive passports after 3 years of Residency in Canada.

The Immigrant Investor program details ( Investment Immigration Visa )

To qualify as an immigrant investor , you must meet all the following requirements:

• The Immigrant Investor  (and spouse) must have accumulated a minimum of 1,600 000$ Canadian of worldwide Net Worth mostly by doing business or managing a company as an employee (see Questions/answers to understand what Net Worth means)
• The Immigrant Investor  must own a company since at least 2 years or have owned one for at least 2 years out of the last 5 years. IF the investor immigrant  did or does not own a company , he/she must have at least 2 years of management experience as an employee
• The Immigrant Investor must make a passive investment of 800 000$ canadian (not the choice of the investor) with the Canadian and Quebec governements for a period of 5 years.

How does the required investment work

Once we have prepared and deposited you Business Immigration file and you receive your approval from the Quebec government, you are required within 110 days to deposit 800 000$ canadian directly at a brokerage firm or bank selected by the governement. This investment will be returned to you after 5 years without any interest being paid by the government. If you do not wish to liquidate your assets to make the required investment, please see the financing solution below.

Financing solution to replace the 800 000$ required investment (90% of Immigrant investors do this) All Inclusive ONE time  payment of Only 240 000 $ Canadian ( standard rate)

If the Immigrant Investor does not wish to liquidate its assets to come up with the $800 000 CAD mandatory deposit, we can provide financing through different Canadian banks - the cost of the financing is 240 000 $ canadian.

With the financing you pay a 1 time financing fee and do what you want with the rest of our money, the financing interest rate is less than 5%, you can have a better return by keeping the difference, therefore the financing option is the best. The required 800 000$ investment does not apply anymore with this solution.

What will the Government do with your investment

The required investment of $800 000 Canadian is invested in a term note guaranteed by the Government of Quebec. A small portion of the interest generated by the investment is used to pay the financial intermediaries such as the brokerage firms, banks, lawyers and immigration consultants involved in the business immigration process. The large part of the interest generated by the investment is given to local corporations in the form of grants.

By doing this, the Immigrant Investor contributes to the economic development of Canada and helps create jobs in Quebec and Canada. In return, Canada and Quebec will give the opportunity to the investor of being accepted without taking into account all the criterias that have to be met for other types of immigration. In addition the regular immigration timeline and quotas will not apply to immigrant investor and his direct family.

IS CANADA A BETTER CHOICE THAN AUSTRALIA FOR INVESTOR IMMIGRATION , LETS COMPARE BOTHS COUNTRIES AND IMMIGRANT INVESTOR PROGRAMS

The answer could be yes for most business and professional immigrants for the following reasons and advantages

• LOCATION FACTOR   Canada is well located in the Western World and provides easy access to the North American market and is only at  a few hours flight and at a  lower cost ticket from the UK and the rest of Europe

• CULTURAL FACTOR    Canada has  much more  success than Australia in terms of multicultural integration and  diversity

• BUSINESS FACTOR     The Canadian economy and its banking system have been over performing  any Western country for the last decade

• THE INVESTMENT FACTOR    The Canadian and Quebec Immigrant Investor Programs require a Net Worth of 1,600,000$ Canadian , where Australia ’s require a Net Worth of A$ 2,250,000 . The Canadian and Quebec Immigrant Investors programs do not ask the investor to move its money in Canada, where Australia’s program requires 1.5 millions $ to be moved to Australia
• THE AGE FACTOR      Australia’s does not consider an investor over the age of 45 to be interesting , therefore they have restricted  access to people under  the age of 45 years old :  Canada does not have these discriminatory rules for investors as they are financially self sufficient .
• THE LANGUAGE FACTOR    Canada and Quebec do not require that the Immigrant Investor family speak English  , where Australia does .
• THE COMPLEXITY FACTOR       Australia ’s investor program has many different rules that need to be followed and finally eliminate 80% of immigrants that apply through lawyers that are paid in advance and have noting to lose in applying for their clients.
• THE WEATHER FACTOR  This depends on the investor, Canada is colder in the winter , but no one ever died simply because its winter : in some places in Canada its actually warmer in winter than in some places in Europe. In Australia , the temperature is much warmer on average but can become a major health and security risk as it can become difficult to breath and many tragic events occur like forest fires and floods. In addition , Canada is the biggest energy producer in the world and energy is cheap and unlimited.

For these  reasons , CANADA IS  NUMBER ONE in terms of Investor Immigration