Great News Canada Starts Invitations For Selecting Potential Sponsors Of Parents And Grandparents

21 Mar 2018

The Canadian Government gives topmost priority to the process of Family Reunification. Last year, IRCC had introduced a revised process for application intake for the Parents and Grandparents sponsorship program. The same process is being used in 2018 also.

Starting from January 2nd till February 1st, 2018, filling up of an interest to sponsor form, through online means, from the potential sponsors, was taken up. Interested persons were asked to inform the Department, regarding their intention to sponsor their parents/grandparents in the present year.

Without any delay, presently IRCC has reviewed the submissions made, and after valid removal of duplicates, it has selected the sponsors in a random manner. Opening on March 19, invitations will be issued, for a few days, to selected persons. The Potential sponsors would get a time of 60 days, beginning from the date of the invitation, for submitting the completed application, to sponsor their parents/grandparents.

Important note:

This confirmation will be despatched through emails, to the selected persons. In order not to miss the email, the persons who had submitted the Interest to Sponsor Form, need to check the same email account, using which they had made the previous correspondence,

They are also required to check the Junk Mail Folder to see its arrival.

The steps to be followed, in case the applicant is randomly selected for submitting the application, are mentioned as under:

Based on March 19 data, the potential sponsors must confirm, whether they have been selected, by seeing that their unique confirmation number is present, on the list of numbers selected randomly.

The presence of the number means that they have been invited for submitting the application to seek sponsorship

The absence of the number means that their case was not been selected

In case, the IRCC experiences a low response and has not received 10,000 completed applications, additional potential sponsors, would be asked to apply, in the future. All the candidates who have submitted a form, showing the interest to sponsor, need to see their email accounts, and the website of IRCC, and other channels, during the year, to see whether, there are additional rounds, meant for inviting potential sponsors.

The persons who have a child/ grandchild, residing in Canada, and intend to spend time with their families, in the country, can submit an application for the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa, even when they are not being sponsored for Permanent Residence. This offer, gives them a choice, to stay in Canada, for two years on their first visit, but the Regular Visa offers only the stay for six months.

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