Parent And Grandparent Sponsorship
The one of Canada’s most popular immigration programs is the Parent and Grandparent
Sponsorship program is . The program permits Canadian citizens and permanent residents to
sponsor their parents or grandparents for permanent residence in Canada.
The program operates using a lottery system and only a limited number of applications will be
accepted each year. The program typically opens on the first business day of January.
Interested sponsors will complete an online form during the month of January and then the
Ministry of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC) will randomly choose 10,000
individuals from those who filled out the form, and those people will be invited to send in their
full application to sponsor their parents and grandparents. Sponsors will have 90 days to submit
their complication to the IRCC.