Humanitarian and Compassionate (H&C) Applications In recent years, Canada has undergone significant changes to its immigration policies, often making it more challenging for individuals and families to navigate the process of gaining permanent residency. As a result, many potential immigrants find themselves in precarious situations, left feeling vulnerable [...]

The Parents and Grandparents Program in Canada allows eligible individuals to sponsor their parents and grandparents to become permanent residents of the country. If you were invited to apply, it required submitting two applications for the Parents and Grandparents Program: the sponsorship application and the permanent residence application. Both of [...]

Immigration Officers are vigilant when it comes to accessing foreign national’s admissibility to Canada in order to ensure the safety and security of Canada, it’s citizens and permanent residents. Your spouse may be denied entry into Canada if they have a criminal record. There are options available to [...]

Sponsors Being Invited to Sponsor their Parents and Grandparents As of mid-March 2018, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has began sending out invitations to Sponsors in order for them to sponsor their parents and/or grandparents through the parents and grandparents sponsorship program. This is hopeful news for [...]

There has been many questions asked about the Parental Sponsorship. It is important to note that there is only 10,000 applications that will be accepted for the year of 2018. The Parental Sponsorship goes through a lottery system. Watch our video below on the update on Parental Sponsorship [...]

Eligibility Requirements for Family Class Sponsorship The Canadian government highly regards family reunification and thus has created the family class sponsorship to assist family members to reunite with their loved ones. There are many sponsors in Canada that have family members around the world and they would love [...]

Can a same-sex partner be sponsored? If you were married in Canada then your same-sex marriage will be valid in regards to sponsorship of a spouse. If you were married outside of Canada then your same-sex marriage will be deemed valid if it is recognized in the country [...]

Among all difficulties you have met, being separated from your loved ones is always difficult to endure. Citizenship and Immigration Canada understands this and, through the family sponsorship program, can facilitate your family’s unification in Canada. Family Sponsorship allows you to sponsor your parents, grandparents, spouse, partner, dependent [...]

Citizenship and immigration Canada (CIC) has a cap on the number of applications they accept for Parent Sponsorships, and unfortunately the cap for this year has been reached. In January 2015, CIC accepted 5000 applications and the parent and grandparent program has again reached a pause. CIC is [...]

The Canadian government allows Canadian citizens and permanent residence to sponsor their parents and grandparents as immigrants. If you are sponsoring your parents or grandparents, then you also have to support them after they arrive in Canada. Before you apply for parental sponsorship, you have to know whether [...]

2014 – 2015 promises to be an exciting year in terms of changes that will be happening within Citizenship and Immigration Canada<. With the re-opening of the Parental Sponsorship Category, changes to Canadian Citizenship, 2014 is setting the tone for the changes to come. That being said, there [...]

Amendments have been made to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), which are basically the legal rules when it comes to immigration matters, to include the recent re-opening of the parental and grandparental sponsorship program. These changes received approval on December 12, 2013 and came into effect [...]