Quebec’s digital immigration platform Arrima will be **offline from 16:30 to 24:00 (EDT) on July 15** for a scheduled system upgrade, according to a notice posted July 14 on Quebec.ca. Arrima is the sole portal for submitting applications under the province’s Regular Skilled Worker, Quebec Experience and Temporary Foreign Worker programs, as well as for uploading supporting documents after receiving an invitation. The six-and-a-half-hour blackout coincides with an active 60-day document-submission window for thousands of candidates invited earlier in the month. Applicants who fail to upload mandatory police certificates or pay fees before the deadline risk losing their invitation and having to re-enter the selection pool. MIFI recommends that employers using the Employer Portal download any in-progress Labour-Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) drafts beforehand. Immigration practitioners have likewise alerted clients to log in early, save drafts, and avoid last-minute submissions. The ministry says the upgrade will add new French-language-training resources and improve two-factor authentication security. While the outage is short, it underscores Arrima’s critical role in Quebec’s decentralised immigration system and highlights the operational risks companies face if they rely on a single online entry point during tight filing windows.
Source: Gouvernement du Québec
