Sponsor your parents and grandparents
You can sponsor your own parents and grandparents, related by blood or adoption. In this application, you can include your brothers and sisters, or half brothers and sisters, or step-brothers and step-sisters only if they qualify as dependent children.
You must meet the income requirements for all the people you want to sponsor and their dependants (spouse, partner and children).
You must submit the interest to sponsor form and wait for the invitation and then you can sponsor your parents and grandparents to become permanent residents of Canada.
Eligibility Requirements
- Be a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident.
- Be 18 years of age or older.
- Meet the minimum income requirements. Income of married couples can be included to calculate the income requirements.
- The sponsor and the sponsored person must sign a sponsorship agreement that commits the sponsor to provide financial support for the sponsored persons, if necessary. This agreement also states that the person becoming a permanent resident will make every effort to support himself or herself. Dependent children under age 22 do not have to sign this agreement. Quebec residents must sign an “undertaking” with the province of Quebec – a contract binding the sponsorship; and
- The sponsor must promise to provide financial support for the sponsored relative for a period of 20 years. This time begins on the date the sponsored relative becomes a permanent resident.