Family Sponsorship

PERMANENT RESIDENCE – NON-ECONOMIC CLASS – FAMILY SPONSORSHIP

Family Sponsorship – Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship

For the 2024 intake, we’ll invite 35,700 people from the remaining pool of potential sponsors who submitted an Interest to Sponsor form in 2020.

Family Sponsorship – Sponsor Your Spouse, Partner or Dependent Children

If you’re eligible, you can sponsor your spouse, partner or dependent children to become permanent residents of Canada.

If you do, you must be able to:

  • support them financially
  • make sure they don’t need social assistance from the government

Family Sponsorship – Sponsor Your Relatives

You may be able to sponsor certain relatives to immigrate to Canada under the Family Class if you’re at least 18 years old and a:

• Canadian citizen or

• person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act or

• permanent resident of Canada

You can only sponsor relatives like a brother, sister, aunt or uncle in very specific situations.