In August 2018, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
(IRCC) announced that it will accept 20,000 applications for the
sponsorship of parents and grandparents in 2019, up from 17,000 in
2018. This program will be available to Canadian citizens and
permanent residents meeting the eligibility requirements who wish
to sponsor their parents/grandparents. A key eligibility
requirement is demonstrating that certain minimum income
requirements are met, evidence that the sponsor can financially
support their dependents and the applicant(s). Applicants being
sponsored must also meet immigration requirements.
The program will no longer use a lottery system to select
applicants. Instead, applicants will be processed on a first-come,
first-served basis starting with the submission of an on-line
"Interest to Sponsor" form which lets IRCC know that the
individual wishes to sponsor his/her parents and grandparents to
come to Canada, as soon as the program re-opens
