ISC Hosted IRCC’s Ministerial Announcement Today – More Families to Reunite in Canada

Settlement ISC Citizenship & Immigration, Updates

This morning, Immigrant Services Calgary was honoured to host Kent Hehr, Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre, who made an announcement regarding improvements to the family reunification process on behalf of the Honourable Ahmed Hussen, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

In 2019, the Government of Canada will accept up to  20000 applications for sponsorship of parents and grandparents. This is 4 times the number of applications accepted when the program reopened in 2014, when the cap was set at 5000 applications. 

Image source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

Further details of these improvement to the system will be announced this fall.