Parent and Grandparent Updates – Fall 2023
IRCC has announced some important updates to the Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program for the 2023 lottery. Only those who had submitted their name in 2020 would be eligible to participate in this year’s lottery. Here are some key points to note: Starting on October 10, 2023, IRCC will begin emailing out invitations to potential
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Parents/Grandparents Sponsorship 2022
The Minister has just released the information about the Parents/Grandparents Sponsorship Program for 2022. Once again, only those who had submitted their interest to sponsor forms for the 2020 program will be eligible to receive an invitation to apply. Here are the details: Interest to Sponsor Forms – 2020 Only those who had already submitted
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Happy Family Day!
To celebrate Family Day in Ontario, our newsletter focused on some recent developments with regard to the family sponsorship programs. Spousal Sponsorships There continues to be a backlog in spousal sponsorship applications, both in-Canada and visa offices abroad. Processing times are slowly improving but are not yet at pre-Covid levels. In the Prime Minister’s
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Updates for 2018 Parent/Grandparent Sponsorship Program
The Parent and Grandparents sponsorship program re-opened for online expressions of interest from January 2 to February 1, 2018. On March 19, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) emailed out invitations to potential sponsors who were randomly selected to submit their sponsorship application. Potential sponsors will have 60 days from the date of their invitation to
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