Sponsor Your Family Member

The Family Class Sponsorship Program remains one of the pillars of the Canadian immigration system. This program reunites families by allowing adult citizens or permanent residents to sponsor a relative for permanent immigration to Canada.

The citizen or permanent resident can sponsor their:

• Spouse, common-law or conjugal partner
• Parent and grandparent
• Dependent child
• Siblings, nephew, niece or grandchild under 18 years of age who is unmarried and whose parents are deceased

The relative who is sponsored must be living outside Canada, unless they are residing legally in Canada temporarily, as a visitor or on a work or study permit.