Undoubtedly, it is always on priority when you have a golden chance to have your family in Canada. Family reunification is a part and parcel for the immigration system of Canada. As if you have your family members in Canada, you can easily become a part of Canadian society by getting emotional support from them.
What is Family reunification program in Canada?
In Family reunification programs, Canadian citizens and permanent residents can sponsor their close family members, such as spouses, children, parents, and grandparents, to come and live in Canada with them. Family reunification is an important part of Canada’s immigration system, helping Canadian citizens and permanent residents sponsor their loved ones to live and work alongside them in Canada.
Through the Parents and Grandparents (PGP) Program, the government is committed to reuniting as many families as possible.
What is something new in Canada?
The doors are wide open for those who are living in Canada want their family members to be with them. This year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) intends to accept up to 10,000 complete applications for sponsorship under the PGP Program.
Additionally, instead of accepting more new forms, IRCC plans to send invitations to apply to the randomly selected potential sponsors from the pool(2020).This is the same approach taken for the intakes conducted from 2020 to 2024.
As of February 5, 2025, processing times for PGP Program applications were approximately 24 months for those destined outside Quebec. They are 48 months for Quebec-destined applicants due to the province’s more limited family class admission targets.
Now, to minimize waiting time for clients, IRCC strives to strike a balance between the counts of PGP Program applications received with the number of PGP Program spaces available through the Immigration Levels Plan in future years. Changes to the levels plan, such as the overall reductions to our immigration targets in the 2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan, require IRCC to recalibrate the number of new applications that are accepted for processing.
IRCC understands this approach will have an impact on the families who have not had an opportunity to submit an interest to sponsor form. For those who are interested in reuniting with their parents and grandparents for extended periods of time, there is a facility of super visa, which allows parents and grandparents to visit their children or grandchildren for 5 years at a time and provides multiple entries to Canada for up to 10 years. IRCC recently made the super visa more accessible by implementing a change to the health insurance requirement.
There is more and more about the 2025 PGP Program intake, will be available in the coming months, including information about when the invitations to apply will be sent.
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