Which family member can be sponsored?

Family Sponsorship program allows Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their parents and grandparents, spouse or common-law/conjugal partner and dependent children. Canada strongly supports keeping families together whenever possible. The processing of Family Class applications is given the highest priority at Canadian Visa Offices. Your relatives can live, study and work in Canada if they become permanent residents of Canada.

If you wish to become a family sponsor to your relatives, you must fulfill the following requirements:

• You must be at least 18 years old

• Canadian citizen or

• Permanent resident of Canada

• person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act