If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, age 18 or over, you can sponsor certain family members to become Canadian permanent residents. If you become a permanent resident, you can live, study and work in Canada. If you sponsor a relative to come to Canada as a permanent resident, you are responsible for supporting your relative financially when he or she arrives.

You can sponsor your:

1. Spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner

2. Dependent child (or a child you plan to adopt): must be 21 and younger

3. Parents and Grandparents: father, mother, grandfather, or grandmother

4. Orphaned  Relatives: brother, sister, nephew, niece, grandson, or granddaughter, who are orphaned, under the age of 18, and not married or in a common-law relationship

5. Other relatives:  *only Lonely Canadians are eligible to sponsor (have no other family living in Canada)

Parents/GrandParents

The application begins once you submit your interest to the sponsor and then will be invited to apply to the intake. This is the process of turning the status of your parents and grandparents into permanent residents of Canada by the sponsor.

Who is eligible to sponsor a parent or grandparent. Click this link to get more information.

Dependent Child and Adopted Child

The family category is a priority for the government to unite the families. Workers, Canadian Citizens, Permanent Residents attain an opportunity.. Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident parents can live with their loved dependant child / Adopted child through the Child Sponsorship Program.