Starting May 21, 2024, Canadian authorities will begin issuing super visa invitations to nearly 35,700 potential sponsor parents to join their children in Canada who submitted their application as early as 2020.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) revealed that the selection procedure will last two weeks, during which time candidates from the remaining pool of interest to sponsor forms submitted in 2020 will receive invitations, reports VisaGuide.World.

Canada's Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) allows citizens of Canada and permanent residents outside Quebec to sponsor their parents and/or grandparents to become residents of Canada.

Canadian authorities aim to attract 23,500 new permanent residents per year through the PGP program, under the current immigration plan.

Additionally, in the fall of 2023, authorities there announced that immigration to Canada under the Parents and Grandparents Program would continue to be limited to families of sponsors who have already submitted interest forms to sponsor once the program reopens next month. , according to a press release from Immigration Canada.

Due to the number of forms remaining in the 2020 submission pool, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will send invitations to apply to randomly selected potential sponsors from this pool instead of opening a new interest form to sponsor..

The same notes that this is the same approach taken for the 2021 and 2022 intakes. Canadian authorities encourage all those who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020 but who have not received a Invitation to Apply (ITA) in 2021 or 2022 to verify the email account they provided at the time when they submitted their interest to sponsor form.

Canada aims to attract 23,500 new permanent residents under the PGP

It was also announced that IRCC would send invitations to apply to 24,200 interested potential sponsors over a two-week period beginning October 10, 2023, with the aim of receiving up to 15,000 complete applications.

Those invited to apply as part of the Class of 2023 will continue to use the Permanent Residency Portal or Representative Permanent Residency Portal, which allows applications to be submitted electronically. This is part of our commitment to modernizing Canada's immigration system and making the application process faster and simpler.

In April of this year, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller announced new changes introduced to facilitate the country's federal business immigration programs.

He said the new changes were launched in order to reduce processing times and also reduce the backlog of applications.