Parents Sponsorship

One of the objectives of the Canadian government is to see that families are reunited in Canada. Along with spousal sponsorship, grandparents and parents sponsorship is the second highly demanded immigration stream under family class immigration.

While your parent's immigration program might not be an option for you at this time, you may also consider temporary residence programs such as super visa and visitor visa. If you are not invited in 2020 to sponsor your parents and/or grandparents, you may submit an interest to sponsor form in 2021. If you are still interested in sponsoring your parents, continue checking updates in case the second round of parents sponsorship invitations is announced.

Once an invitation is issued, individuals will have 60 days to submit a complete application to IRCC. It is extremely important to submit a complete application, otherwise, the application will not be accepted and it will be returned 4 months later.  Individuals will lose their opportunity to sponsor on the issued invitation because the 60-day deadline window for submitting a complete application will have passed by the time the application is returned for being incomplete.  These individuals will have to re-enter the draw again for the next year and be lucky enough to get another invitation to sponsor.

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IRCC has also announced that the application submission will change from a paper-based application to electronic, online submission.  Further details have yet to be released, but IRCC will likely provide further details in September on the new application submission process.