Canada To Accept 20,000 Parents And Grandparents In 2019 Under 'First Apply' Immigration System

From next year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will issue invitations to apply based on the order in which online interest to sponsor forms are submitted.

Invitations will continue to be issued until the government reaches 20,000 completed applications, up from a target of 17,000 in 2018.

As in previous years, the application window will open in early January 2019.

Since 2017, names have been selected at random from all those who submitted an interest to sponsor.

Families complained that the randomized process gave them no way of knowing if they would ever be selected to reunite with their loved ones.

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