The demand for sponsoring parents and grandparents significantly exceeds Canada’s available admission targets.
The PGP will be allocating 28,500 admissions for parents and grandparents in 2023 and will grow to 30,000 in 2024, The admission target is set for 32,000 and 34,000 in 2025 and 2026.
Despite these admission level increases, given the number of applicants in the existing pool, no new applicants are needed in 2023 to meet these levels. Therefore, new applications that are received in 2023 will have to wait approximately two to three years to be finalized.
The IRCC memo recommends that while intakes are at the discretion of the immigration minister, to ensure stable processing times, annual volumes should be calculated based on the Levels Plan.
Between October 10th and 24th, IRCC sent out 24,200 invitations to apply to the PGP with the hopes of receiving 15,000 complete applications. Eligible applicants were chosen from the 2020 pool of interested eligible sponsors.
