Quebec In-Demand Occupations:

Permanent Immigration Pilot Program for Food Processing Workers: To be eligible, the work experience and the job offer in Quebec must correspond to one of the following occupations:

• NOC 94141 – Industrial Butchers and Meat Cutters, Poultry Preparers and Related Workers
• NOC 95106 – Labourers in Food and Beverage Processing
• NOC 95107 – Labourers in Fish and Seafood Processing
• NOC 65311 – Specialty Cleaners
• NOC 94140 – Machine and Process Operators in Food and Beverage Processing
• NOC 85100 – Labourers in the care of livestock, but only the job title chicken gatherer
• NOC 94142 – Workers in fish and seafood processing plants

Both work experience and job offers must also belong to one of the following eligible sectors:

• NAICS 311 – Food manufacturing
• NAICS 3121 – Beverage manufacturing

Permanent Immigration Pilot Program for Orderlies: To be eligible, the job offer in Quebec must correspond to the following occupation:

• NOC 33102 – Nurse aide, orderly, and patient service associate

Under the Work stream, 12 months out of the 24 months of work experience required as an orderly in Quebec (NOC 3413) could have been obtained outside Quebec in the health sector and related to basic personal care. The following occupations are eligible for the 12-month period:

• NOC 31300 – Nursing coordinator and supervisor
• NOC 31301 – Registered nurse and registered psychiatric nurse
• NOC 31302 – Nurse Practitioners
• NOC 32101 – Licensed practical nurses

Under the Work-study stream, 12 months of work experience as an orderly (NOC 33102) in Quebec are required.

Permanent Immigration Pilot Program for Workers in the Artificial Intelligence, Information Technologies, and Visual Effects Sectors: Under the Artificial Intelligence stream​, the job offer in Quebec must be in the artificial intelligence sector with an official notice, issued by the Comité sectoriel de main-d’œuvre en technologies de l’information et des communications, attesting that the job is in the artificial intelligence sector and that the skill profile of the candidate meets the requirements of the job.

Under this stream, both work experience and the job offer in Quebec must correspond to one of the following occupations:

• NOC 21223 – Database Analysts and Data Administrators
• NOC 21233 – Web Designers
• NOC 52120 – Graphic Designer and Illustrator (only if in the visual effects sector)
• NOC 21232 – Software Developers and Programmers
• NOC 21230 – Computer Systems Developers and Programmers
• NOC 20012 – Computer Systems Manager
• NOC 21231 – Software engineers and designers
• NOC 21310 – Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• NOC 51120 – Producers, directors, choreographers and related occupations (only if in the visual effects sector)
• NOC 41200 – University professors and lecturers (only if in the information technology or visual effects sectors)
• NOC 21211 – Data Scientists
• NOC 21220 – Cybersecurity Specialists
• NOC 21222 – Computer Specialists
• NOC 21221 – Commercial Systems Specialists
• NOC 52113 – Audio and video recording technicians (only if in the visual effects sector)
• NOC 52111 – Graphic design technicians (only if in the visual effects sector)
• NOC 22220 – Computer Network and Web Technicians
• NOC 22310 – Electrical and Electronics Engineering Technologists and Technicians