Parents Sponsorship

Family reunification immigration is an immigration category in which a Canadian citizen or permanent resident sponsors a spouse, partner who has lived together for more than one year, dependent children and other family members to immigrate to Canada for the purpose of family reunification.

Parent/Grandparent Category. This category requires a two-step process: a sponsor eligibility review and an applicant eligibility review. The entire approval process is long and is the slowest of all the application categories, typically taking 4-6 years. The difference between this category and the spouse/dependent child category is that there is an income requirement for the sponsor and the applicant needs to meet the income requirement throughout the application approval process. If there is no stable income but only savings is not valid. For different municipalities and according to different family sizes (both those already in Canada and those proposed to come to Canada), the Department of Citizenship and Immigration has established a minimum cost of living (data updated every February). To be approved, the sponsor's income must be equal to or greater than the specified cost value.

Sponsorship Requirements  

A Canadian citizen or permanent resident (PR) who is 18 years of age or older.  　

Have sufficient financial sponsorship to commit to an obligation to cover the basic living expenses of the parent for at least 20 years after arrival in Canada.  　

Have no criminal convictions.  　

Have completed other sponsorship obligations (e.g. previously sponsored someone else).  　

Meet the minimum income requirements for sponsorship, which we expect to be comparable to the following table for 2014.

Number of people sponsored Minimum income requirement

1 person 30, 287

2 persons 37, 705

3 persons 46, 354

4 persons 56, 280

5 persons 63, 833

6 people 71, 991

7 persons 80, 153

For each additional person in excess of 7 persons 8, 148

Conditions of the guarantor

Be a parent or grandparent of the sponsor.  　

Physically meet the Canadian medical examination requirements.  　

Have no criminal record or have reached the exemption period and can pass a security check.