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The Government of Canada has temporarily closed new applications for permanent residency sponsorship for parents and grandparents. Applications under the Super Visa program will not be accepted by Canada immigration department this year. According to the department, efforts will be made to settle the 15,000 applications in the waiting list from previous years under this scheme by the end of this year.
It is worth mentioning that the Government of Canada had given the facility to the people of foreign origin living permanently that they can invite their parents, grandparents and grandparents to Canada permanently under the family reunification program. PR people who are waiting for the department to fill their applications have been asked to give priority to keeping their parents with them under super visa. The super visa has already been extended to five years, although applications will not be accepted this year.
The department has also cut the PR quota of skilled workers invited from abroad by 20 percent to 24,500 under the post graduation program. Of course, the department has only talked about this year recently, but according to department insiders, the suspension is the second step toward a permanent shutdown of the program.
Immigration Minister Mark Miller says the move will best meet the government’s immigration and family reunification goals. In addition, new sponsorships in other immigration categories have also been temporarily suspended to clear the backlog of old applications.
According to the government’s three-year immigration plan, overall immigration will fall, but the target is to admit more than 24,000 people this year through parent and grandparent sponsorship. Under the new directive, a maximum of 15,000 applications will be processed through the family reunification program in 2024. 35,700 people were selected to apply under this program in 2024. Of these, the government had set a target of accepting 20,500 applications. However, more than 40,000 sponsorship applications were pending by the end of 2023.