Canada pauses new applications for parental and grandparent responsibilities | World news

Canada in 2025 will stop accepting new applications for permanent residence under the parent and grandparent sponsorship program. IRCC has said it will only process family sponsorship applications submitted in 2024 under the parent and Grandparents program.
By 2025, IRCC aims to process no more than 15,000 sponsorship applications.
For those Canadian citizens and permanent residents who want their parents and grandparents to stay longer in Canada, the super visa option remains available, allowing visits lasting up to five years per visit. stay.
Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program: What is it?
The Parent and Grandparent Program enables Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their parents or grandparents for permanent residence in Canada.
The program uses a lottery system to send application invitations, as interested sponsors significantly outnumber vacancies. IRCC sent invitations to sponsors who submitted their interest forms during the 2020 enrollment period and continued this process from 2020 to 2024.
Reason for suspension
IRCC has lowered its permanent resident targets for 2025 by 20%, affecting allocations under the Parent and Grandparent Program (PGP). The new target for PGP landings in 2025 is set at 24,500 foreign nationals.
This marks a notable drop compared to the immigration plan released in 2023, which had set higher targets of 32,000 for 2024 and 34,000 for 2025.