What are the trends of parental sponsorship?
With the news about the reopening of the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP), many Canadians ran to check new requirements in order to be one of the 10,000 successful applications. Immigration Canada already stated that for next year the government wants to triple the number. Such a big increase may be explained by the data on PR admissions for parents and grandparents. As of now, IRCC approved only 6,170 applications in 2020. This is a little more than a quarter of 22,010 approvals in 2019. Since Liberals took the office, IRCC has been approving more parental sponsorship cases, but the pandemic hit PGP applicants the most. 30,000 spots in 2021 will have to compensate those who were not processed this year and those who were not successful to register in the system last year.
- 2015 – 15490
- 2016 – 17040
- 2017 – 20495
- 2018 – 18025
- 2019 – 22010
- 2020 – 6170 (Jan to Jun)
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