Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program: Application Deadline Approaching Fast

Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program: Application Deadline Approaching Fast
September 13, 2018 – The October 5 deadline is fast approaching for completed applications to be submitted under Canada’s Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program. Following the second draw of 2018, which took place in August, sponsors who received an Invitation to Apply were given 90 days to apply to the federal government. Anyone missing the
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Canada To Accept 20,000 Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Applications in 2019 Under First Apply Immigration System

Canada To End Controversial Parents and Grandparents Lottery System
August 21, 2018 – Canada will end the controversial lottery system for selecting candidates under the Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program in 2019. From next year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will issue invitations to apply based on the order in which online interest to sponsor forms are submitted. Invitations will continue to be issued
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Canada Announces Second Lottery Draw For Parents and Grandparents Program

Canada To End Controversial Parents and Grandparents Lottery System
July 30, 2018 – Canada will conduct a new lottery draw for the Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program, starting Tuesday, July 31. The second draw of 2018 will be from the same sponsors who entered the lottery in January, when a 30-day window was opened. Those who are drawn at random from the list will
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Stinging Criticism of Canada’s Parent and Grandparent Program

June 11, 2018 – Experts have launched the most stinging criticism yet of Canada’s Parent and Grandparent Program lottery system. Statisticians say qualified candidates could sit in the lottery pool for a decade and never get selected.  Meanwhile, other candidates who do not qualify for the program get selected, but see their applications fail after
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Canada To Reopen Parents and Grandparents Lottery With Tweaked Process

December 22, 2017 – Canada immigration authorities announced a new lottery system for selecting candidates under the Parents and Grandparents Program, as it reopens on January 2, 2018. More questions have been added to the ‘Interest to Sponsor’ form to try and ensure only those eligible to sponsor their parents and grandparents enter the lottery.
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Canada Immigration Minister Defends Parent and Grandparent Lottery

July 30, 2017 – Canada Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen has defended the move to introduce a lottery system for the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program. Hussen says the new system is fair, despite reports of less than 1,000 applications being received against a target of 10,000. Now Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is planning
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