Temporary Freeze on the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP)

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryCanada

Operative dateJanuary 1, 2020

CategoryFamily

Policy toolOther

Affected groupNew applicants

Policy effect

IRCC implemented a complete freeze on the acceptance of new sponsorship applications and permanent resident visa applications for the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) effective January 1, 2020, to allow for the development of a new intake management process.

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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Act). These Instructions are given, pursuant to section 87.3 and subsections 92(1.1) and (2) of the Act, by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration as, in the opinion of the Minister, these Instructions will best support the attainment of the immigration goals established by the Government of Canada. These temporary Instructions are intended to ensure that as of January 1, 2020, no permanent resident visa applications made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor and no sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications are accepted for processing until further Instructions are issued. These Instructions will allow the Department sufficient time to complete the development of a new application intake management process for the parents and grandparents sponsorship program, to be implemented in 2020. The Minister intends to issue further Instructions relating to the intake management process for the parents and grandparents program by April 1, 2020, at the latest. Until the new intake management process is implemented, the Department will not accept any new applications. This will ensure that all interested sponsors have the same opportunity … parents or grandparents under the family class are accepted for processing until further Instructions are issued. Humanitarian and compassionate requests A request made under subsection 25(1) of the Act from outside Canada and that accompanies an application that was not accepted for processing under these Instructions will not be processed. Disposition of applications Any sponsorship application or related application for a permanent resident visa made by a sponsor’s parents or grandparents under the family class that is not accepted for processing under these Instructions will be returned. Coming into effect These Instructions take effect on January 1, 2020. Ottawa, December 20, 2019 Marco Mendicino, P.C., M.P. Minister of Citizenship and Immigration DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999 Proposed guideline for Canadian drinking water quality for boron Pursuant to subsection 55(3) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, the Minister of Health hereby gives notice of a proposed guideline for Canadian drinking water quality for boron. The proposed technical document for this guideline is available for public comment from January 10, 2020, to March …

Canada GazetteCanada Gazette. Temporary Freeze on the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP). Effective 2020-01-01.; Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 154, Number 2: Ministerial Instructions with respect to the processing of applications for a permanent resident visa made by parents or grandparents of a sponsor as members of the family class and the processing of sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications.Open official source

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Temporary Freeze on the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP)

Policy effect

Official source excerpt

Review method

Other Canada changes operative in 2020