Under the parents and grandparents sponsorship program, the Government of Canada is raising the number of applications that it will acknowledge for processing this year, from 10000 to 17000.

The direction was issued Thursday by means of Ministerial Instruction from Canada’s Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussein.

The news follows after a declaration by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) prior this week that it would continue welcoming potential supporters who had already presented an Interest to Sponsor form amid that last Interest to Sponsor period between January 2 and February 1, 2018.

The directions issued expresses that raising the count of applications handled for the current year to 17,000 “will best help the fulfillment of the immigration objectives built up by the Government of Canada by observing families united again in Canada.”

The extra invitations will be issued utilizing the same randomized choice process that IRCC utilized to issue its earlier invitations this year.

Patrons who get an encouragement to apply will have 60 days from the date they got their welcome to present a total application.

IRCC’s Parents and Grandparents Program is one of Canada’s Family Class sponsorship activities and enables successful candidates to apply for permanent residence for their parents and/or grandparents.

Who’s qualified?

With a specific end goal to be qualified to support one’s parents and grandparents to be a permanent resident, candidates must be:

• At least 18 years of age; and
• A Canadian citizen or permanent occupant of Canada.

In the event that you support your parents and grandparents to come to Canada as a permanent occupant, you should:

• The support that individual and their dependents monetarily
• Meet the base essential salary level for this program by submitting a notification of evaluation issued by the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) with the help of their sponsorship.
• Sponsors should likewise exhibit they have met the base minimum salary level for three back to back years. In the event of married or in a common-law relationship, the salary of the two people can be incorporated; and
• The sponsor and the sponsored relative must consent to a sponsorship arrangement that submits the sponsor to give monetary help to the sponsored individual for up to 20 years.

Once IRCC endorses support to the potential patrons who live in Quebec, they should meet the Quebec’s Immigration sponsorship prerequisites.

Sponsors should demonstrate that they meet the base wage prerequisites by submitting the notification of evaluation issued by the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) in the help of their sponsorship and they should likewise exhibit they have met the base minimum wage level for three sequential years.

In the event that you get or have received an invite to apply to the Parents and Grandparents Program, or to get details on any of the on-going immigration programs for Canada, you may contact our advisors and get your eligibility checked. ISA Global is the leading immigration consultant in India and we have helped thousands of our clients to settle in countries like Canada and Australia.