Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that, as of January 1, 2025, no new permanent resident visa applications made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor and no sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications will be received for processing, until further Instructions are issued.
Unless a new intake for the 2025 calendar year is implemented, for the 2025 calendar year, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration will only be accepting for processing permanent resident visa applications made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor and sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications that were received in 2024 pursuant to the established conditions.
A maximum of 15,000 sponsorship applications received in 2024 and made in relation to applications for a permanent resident visa, which are made by sponsors’ parents or grandparents under the family class, will be accepted for processing in the 2025 calendar year. They will be processed in the order in which they were received.
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