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Canada announces details of Parents and Grandparents Program 2021

The Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) of Canada from 20 September 2021

IRCC to accept a record number of applications for the 2021 Parents and Grandparents Program. Now, there is good news for all those Canadians who want their parents and grandparents to be permanent Canadian residents. The Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) is now going to give a chance of invitation to 30,000 to sponsor their parents and grandparents for their migration to Canada. This program will be workable from 20 September 2021. The process for the submission of applications will be started after 14 days of the given date. The candidates will have to submit the application within 2 months to authorities, there will be no extra time given.

PGP 2021 is also verified by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino in a seminar where he talked about it in detail.

The candidates who submitted their application in last year’s program and did not consider will be included in these 30,000 lucky contestants. There is a reminder for those candidates by IRCC who participated last year to modify their previous details (especially contact details) of the application on the website.

Important factors to be eligible for the PGP for Canadian applicants

  1. The detailed information of criteria on the PGP website must be fulfilled by the applicants;

The applicant must be:

  • Minimum of 18 years old;
  • Permanent citizen of Canada;
  • Assured of the authentic source to assist the parents and grandparents, he/she is inviting.
  1. The applicants will first make a framework of all expenses according to income and will estimate that he/she can afford them or not. The applicant will give a verification of the salary to prove that he can afford all the expenditures of his/her parents and grandparents;
  2. The applicant must have to fulfill the criteria of “Minimum Necessary Income” (MNI). This is made mandatory by authorities, without it the application will be rejected. The IRCC will examine all the data of the MNI of the applicant of the previous 3 years 2018, 2019, and 2020;
  3. Due to the COVID-19, the applicants will be given exemptions for the MNI criteria. The exemption is that their MNI tax record will be checked for the year 2020. The applicants can also add up the facilities for Employment Insurance (EI) and Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) in their MNI tax for 2020;
  4. The Canadian applicants will have to provide proof of income to support their parents and grandparents for the 3 years;
  5. After getting the stats of permanent residence for their parents and grandparents, the Canadian applicants will support them financially for a minimum of 10 years.

IRCC aims to receive up to 40,000 complete applications in 2021—10,000 from the 2020 intake process and 30,000 from 2021.

Important factors to be eligible for the PGP for Quebec applicants

If the applicant is non-Canadian, a citizen of Quebec must have to fulfill this criterion:

  1. The non-Canadian, residents of Quebec applicants and their co-signers will have to submit the letter of assessment from the “Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)” for the previous 3 years mentioned above;
  2. The applicants of Quebec and their co-signers will have to provide the proof of the income for the support of their parents and grandparents of just 1 year;
  3. Quebec applicants must have their salary assessed by Quebec’s Immigration Ministry based on the criteria of province salary;
  4. The Quebec authorities and IRCC will verify this from the Quebec applicants that for how much time they can afford the expenditures of their parents and grandparent;
  5. After getting the stats of permanent residence for their parents and grandparents, the applicants of Quebec will support them financially for a minimum of 10 years.

PGP program from last year

Last year, the long-term residents of Canada were given access to submit an application to IRCC. With this particular application, the applicants showed their interest that they want to invite their parents and grandparents to Canada for a long-term duration. From these applications, 10,000 lucky applicants were selected by immigration authorities. Further, they assured the other applicants that there will be launched a program in 2021 with the selection of 30,000 candidates. The authorities assured the other candidates that their applications will be verified next time.

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