Self-employed and start-up applicants cannot buy their way over the line. If the transaction that satisfies a requirement was set up mainly to obtain status rather than to actually work for yourself or run the business behind the commitment, the officer treats the requirement as unmet. The paperwork can be flawless and the application still fails on this.
89 For the purposes of this Division, an applicant in the self-employed persons class or an applicant in the start-up business class is not considered to have met the applicable requirements of this Division if the fulfillment of those requirements is based on one or more transactions that were entered into primarily for the purpose of acquiring a status or privilege under the Act rather than (a)in the case of an applicant in the self-employed class, for the purpose of self-employment; and (b)in the case of an applicant in the start-up business class, for the purpose of engaging in the business activity for which a commitment referred to in paragraph 98.01(2)(a) was intended.
89.1 A foreign national who is an accompanying family member of a person who makes an application as a member of the Quebec investor class, the Quebec entrepreneur class, the start-up business class, the self-employed persons class or the Quebec self-employed persons class shall become a permanent resident if, following an examination, it is established that (a)the person who made the application has become a permanent resident; and (b)the foreign national is not inadmissible.