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India is the most important source of new permanent residents that come to Canada through family sponsorship programs, reveals data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. In 2019, India was the top country on a list of countries throughout the world that provided Canada with new permanent residents through these programs with 17,660 Indians being
Ottawa sped up its processing of spousal sponsorship applications at the end of last year – but advocates say a lot more still needs to be done. Misha Pelletier, spokesperson for Spousal Sponsorship Advocates, says a lot of applicants under the spousal sponsorship program for permanent residency in Canada are still seeing delays of as
All invitations to apply for the 2020 Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) have been sent, according to Canada’s immigration department. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced that all the invitations had been sent as of Monday January 11. Candidates who received an invitation now have 60 days to submit a full application. Those who
Family sponsorship is one of the fastest and most popular ways to gain permanent residence in Canada and is expected to boom again as international travel restrictions ease up this year. India is the biggest source of new permanent residents to Canada and China the second-biggest such source. Before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, more than
The window for submissions of Interest to Sponsor forms for Canada’s Parents and Grandparents Program closes tomorrow, November 3, 2020. The three-week window for the submission of the form has been open since October 13. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials will then select at random candidates to be issued invitations to apply. Canada will
This program reached a maximum allocation for 2019 and is no longer available at this moment. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has operated a lottery system for the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program since January 2017. From 2019, the system will change to a first-come, first-served process. Sponsors will still be required to complete an ‘interest
If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, age 18 or over, you can sponsor certain family members to become Canadian permanent residents. If you become a permanent resident, you can live, study and work in Canada. If you sponsor a relative to come to Canada as a permanent resident, you
