Québec file checklist
Québec runs its own selection stage with its own rules, and the one that matters most for translation is that it frequently requires a translator belonging to its professional order. Check that before anything else in your file.
Checked on 8 September 2026 Last updated 9 September 2026
In brief
- Certification level
- Certified translator (Québec) + Apostille
- Estimated time
- Provincial stage runs on its own calendar, ahead of the federal one
- Destination country
- Québec
Accepted under conditions
Québec selects for itself before Canada admits. That produces a second set of rules, and the differences are not cosmetic.
Check the translator requirement first
Québec files frequently require translations by a member of the province’s professional order of translators. This is the single check that determines whether we can help with the translation at all — and the answer is often no. We are not members of that order and we say so at the first exchange, before any quotation. See certified translator.
The evaluation is not the federal assessment
Québec operates its own comparative evaluation of studies done outside the province. It is not a diploma, not a licence to practise, and not interchangeable with a federal credential assessment. Applicants regularly pay for one and then discover they needed the other. See comparative evaluation.
Check the form version on the day you file
Forms are revised, and a submission made on a superseded version can be returned without examination. Download the form on the day you complete it rather than reusing one saved months earlier — this is a two-minute check that prevents a full cycle of delay.
Regulated professions
If you intend to practise a regulated profession in Québec, the professional order that governs it decides, not the immigration file. Its requirements are separate, usually longer, and often include course descriptions. Open that file early. See professional order.
Before you submit
- Correct version of each Turkish record — detailed, not abridged.
- Translation produced by whoever the programme actually requires.
- Apostille obtained first where a Turkish document needs one.
- Documents with short acceptance windows dated late, not early.
- Names spelled identically across every document.
- Current form version, downloaded today.
What we do in a Québec file
Retrieval of Turkish records with a power of attorney, presentation to the competent Turkish authority for the apostille, and tracked courier. That is real work and it is often the slowest part of the file — but it is not the translation, and we do not blur the two. See where should you have it translated.
Names and spelling
Turkish letters absent from French are transliterated inconsistently between systems. A one-character difference between a passport and a register extract stalls files. Compare your documents side by side before submitting. See spelling of names.
Two files, one set of documents
Applicants destined for Québec end up running a provincial file and a federal one, often with overlapping document lists but different rules about form. Order enough certified copies at the outset for both, and keep the spellings identical across them: a name rendered one way in the provincial file and another way federally is exactly the kind of discrepancy that generates a request for clarification. Treating them as one document exercise with two destinations, rather than two separate projects, avoids most of the duplication.
Frequently asked questions
Only where the programme accepts a translation certified in the Turkish system. Where it requires a member of the Québec order, it does not, and we tell you before quoting.
Possibly, if your route involves both stages. They are separate and neither replaces the other.
Download it from the official page on the day you complete it. Saved copies go out of date silently.
No. The federal stage decides admission; the provincial certificate is an input to it.