On March 7, 2025, Canada's immigration department announced that it would send Invitations to Apply (ITAs) to potential sponsors in 2025. Some Canadians and permanent residents will be invited to apply to sponsor their parents and grandparents for permanent residency in 2025.
In January 2025, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced that it would not send new invitations under the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) this year and would instead process applications submitted in the 2024 intake.
This announcement means that foreign nationals who submitted an Interest to Sponsor form under the PGP in 2020 could receive an Invitation to Apply (ITA) in 2025. However, the government did not announce when to send the invitations but promised to release more details in the coming months.
IRCC uses a lottery system to randomly select potential sponsors from the PGP pool.
Thus, all invitations for the current PGP program have been sent to those who submitted Interest to Sponsor forms in the 2020 intake. The intake has not yet re-opened.
Foreign nationals and Canadian citizens who have not been able to sponsor their parents and grandparents under the PGP can take advantage of the super visa program to sponsor their relatives to visit them in Canada for extended periods.
The Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) is a family reunification pathway to permanent residence. It allows Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and registered Indians to sponsor their parents and grandparents for Canadian permanent residency.
To be eligible, the sponsoring person must meet minimum income requirements in addition to other criteria, and their relative(s) must be admissible to Canada. You cannot apply for the PGP directly.
Those eligible to sponsor must submit an Interest to Sponsor form to the federal government, and then wait for an invitation to apply. Sponsors are selected randomly from the pool.
When the PGP opened intake in 2020, it received a large number of Interest to Sponsor forms and has not re-opened intake since then. In each of the following years since 2020, the government has sent ITAs to people who submitted Interest to Sponsor forms in the 2020 intake.
Under the Super Visa program, permanent residents, registered Indians, and Canadian citizens can sponsor their parents and grandparents to live with them in Canada for extended periods.
Super Visas are valid for up to 10 years and allow multiple entries into Canada. Super visa holders have temporary resident status, and can stay in Canada for up to five years at a time, and can extend their stay for two years.
Sponsors must meet minimum income requirements, and foreign national applicants must purchase third-party health insurance for the duration of their stay in Canada.
The Canadian federal government recently loosened healthy insurance requirements for the Super Visa program to allow applicants more options for purchasing coverage.
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