The Quebec Business class covers entrepreneurs, investors, and self-employed people selected by Quebec. Quebec runs its own immigration selection: applicants destined for Quebec first obtain a Certificat de sélection du Québec (CSQ) from the provincial government, and IRCC then handles the federal stage — admissibility, security, and medical checks. That extra provincial step is why IRCC publishes separate processing times for Quebec-bound applications.

Business-class files involve verifying the source and legality of funds on top of standard admissibility checks, which historically makes this one of the longest queues IRCC publishes. This page tracks the trend.