Family Sponsorship

Immigration Canada reopened parent and grandparent sponsorship program on January 28, sparking fierce competition among aspiring sponsors.  

Citizenship and Immigration Canada will re-open the Parent and Grandparent (PGP) program for new applications on January 2, 2014, by which time the backlog and wait times in the program are expected to have been cut in half.

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Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has reached its cap of 5,000 complete applications in the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program. CIC will begin a new intake period next year. If you wish to bring your parents and grandparents to Canada, the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa is still an excellent option. With the Super Visa, eligible parents and grandparents can visit family in Canada for up to two years without the need to renew their status.

During the processing of a family class sponsorship application, some sponsored spouses, partners, and their dependent children, will come to Canada as temporary residents to be with their sponsor. Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced at the end of May a temporary public policy allowing these individuals to work in Canada while their application is being processed.

The immensely popular Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP) is expected to reopen in January, 2016, with sponsors and candidates already preparing for what are expected to be a very short application intake period.

The Government of Canada is increasing the number of applications that it will accept for processing this year under its parents and grandparents sponsorship program, from 10,000 to 17,000. The update was issued Thursday via Ministerial Instruction from Canada’s Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen.

On October 10, IRCC will begin sending invitations to apply to 24,200 interested potential sponsors, aiming to receive up to the 15,000 complete applications.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will reopen its popular Parents and Grandparents Program on Jan. 2, 2018.

IRCC will hold a lottery to invite some 30,000 to sponsor their parents and grandparents for immigration to Canada.

Parents and Grandparents sponsorship program selection cap was completed  in a matter of few minutes from the time that  the ICCRC website was open to the intrested applicants to complete the expression of interest online application form .

Immigration Canada will be accepting sponsorship applications from eligible applicants under this category as of January 3rd, 2017 with a limited cp of 10000 applications.

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Canada’s federal government is extending its Open Work Permit Pilot for sponsored spouses and common-law partners who are living in Canada and in the process of applying for permanent residence under the Spouse or Common-Law Partner in Canada Class.

In a stunning victory, the Liberal Party of Canada has toppled the Conservatives in the Canadian federal election, held on October 19. The Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, won with a promise of change.

Minister John McCallum has announced that processing times for the family class immigration programs will be reduced to 12 month. The government goal to eventually reduce processing times to as low as six months.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that applicants who are interested to sponsor parents and grandparents may complete an online form to express their interest to sponsor. The form will be available to be completed as of January 3, until 12 p.m. EST on February 2, 2017

A Temporary Resident Visa or visitor visa (TRV) is an official document placed in your passport that demonstrates to Canadian authorities that you have met the requirements for admission into Canada as a visitor, student or worker. Canada requires citizens of certain countries to obtain a TRV before they can enter Canada.

John McCallum, Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, has stated that his department plans to speed up processing times for family class immigration, economic immigrants and refugee claimants by applying the lessons learned from bringing 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada over a short period time of only 3 months.

Due to a large application backlog in 2011, the federal government paused parental sponsorship program which allowed Canadians and permanent residents to sponsor and bring their foreign parents and grandparents to Canada.