2022 Parents And Grandparents Program Sponsorship – Here’s What to Expect

Posted 12/15/2021

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada have yet to announce further details for the 2022 Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP), but so far these are some of the confirmed details. As per the Immigration Levels Plan of 2021 – 2023, IRCC is set to welcome more or less 23,500 new immigrants through the 2022 PGP. It is also yet to be announced when the IRCC will announce the launch of the 2022 Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) as well as what format will the selection be as the previous years, they have used lottery where sponsors who have been able to submit their expression of interest forms on the website of the IRCC were selected randomly. In connection to IRCC’s selection, it was mentioned that they are looking for other ways on how they could manage the PGP as the demand to sponsor parents and grandparents surpass the number of spots; the IRCC has received almost 200,000 expressions of interest forms for the year 2020 and 2021.

While waiting for the official announcement from the IRCC with regards to the guidelines of 2022 PGP, it has already been stated that the IRCC will continue to declare that the standard processing for the PGP applications is between 20 – 24 months. In addition to this, IRCC’s eligibility criteria for PGP sponsors are:

Must be at least 18 years old
Must be living in Canada
Must be either a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or a registered Indian under the Canadian Indian Act
Must meet the necessary minimum income level for PGP and provide proof of income to the IRCC through the submission of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) Notices of Assessments
Must sign a legal undertaking that as a sponsor, they commit to support the sponsored individuals financially for 20 years and repay any social assistance that was claimed by the individuals within the said period

The required minimum necessary income (MNI) always depends on the size of your family as well as the location of where you reside in Canada. If you reside within Quebec, you will be assessed based on your income for only the past 12 months, meanwhile, if you live outside of Quebec, you will be assessed based on 2019, 2020, and 2021 tax years.