Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) set to announce the process for the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) 2022 in late October
Published on: April 20, 2023
The program is for Canadian Citizens and PR holders to sponsor their parents or grandparents for immigration to Canada. In recent years, IRCC has used a lottery based system to decide which parents and grandparents will be eligible for a visa. However, for this year IRCC will unveil the process as part of the announcement.
Sponsors must be over 18 years old and able to demonstrate that they exceed the minimum necessary income for sponsorship. They also need to sign an undertaking stating that they are willing to support their parents or grandparents for 20 years (or 10 years if sponsors live in Quebec).
In the 2021 lottery for the PGP, IRCC invited 30,000 Canadians to submit their applications to sponsor.