2025 PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS PROGRAM

This year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) intends to accept up to 10,000 complete applications for sponsorship under the PGP Program.

Given there remains a number of interest to sponsor forms in the pool from 2020, IRCC plans to send invitations to apply to randomly selected potential sponsors from that pool instead of accepting new forms. This is the same approach taken for the intakes conducted from 2020 to 2024.

To minimize wait times for clients, IRCC strives to strike a balance between the number of PGP Program applications received with the number of PGP Program spaces available through the Immigration Levels Plan in future years.

For those interested in reuniting with their parents and grandparents for extended periods of time, the super visa remains available. This allows parents and grandparents to visit their children or grandchildren for 5 years at a time and provides multiple entries to Canada for up to 10 years.

Source: IRCC Notices: Mar 7, 2025