Canada Family Sponsorship

Reuniting families in Canada through Spousal and Common-law sponsorship, plus Super Visa options for parents and grandparents.

Check Eligibility

Spouse or Common-law Partner

You can sponsor your spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner if:

  • You are at least 18 years old.
  • You appear to have a genuine relationship.
  • You commit to supporting them by signing an undertaking and sponsorship agreement, and you are not receiving social assistance for a reason other than a disability.

Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP)

The Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) is currently paused. IRCC is not accepting new interest to sponsor forms or inviting potential sponsors to apply until further notice, and is continuing to process existing applications.

Super Visa

Alternatively, the Super Visa allows parents and grandparents to visit Canada for up to 5 years at a time.

Dependent Children

IRCC lets you sponsor a child if they are not inadmissible to Canada and qualify as a dependant. A child is eligible as a dependant if they are your biological or adopted child (or your spouse or partner's biological or adopted child) and meet 1 of these requirements:

  • They are under 22 years old and they do not have a spouse or common-law partner.
  • They are 22 years or older and:
    • they are unable to financially support themselves because of a mental or physical condition
    • they have depended on their parents for financial support since before the age of 22

With the exception of age, the dependent child must continue to meet these requirements until IRCC finishes processing the application. Read IRCC's page on who you can sponsor.

Adopted Children

IRCC has a separate program to sponsor an adopted child from another country for permanent residence.

If you want to sponsor a child through an intercountry adoption, IRCC says to follow the steps for sponsoring a child through an intercountry adoption.

Read IRCC's page for sponsoring an adopted child.

Sponsor Your Relatives

In very specific situations, IRCC lets you sponsor certain relatives. There are 2 types of relatives you may be able to sponsor: an orphaned brother, sister, nephew, niece or grandchild, or one other relative.

Orphaned Brother, Sister, Nephew, Niece or Grandchild

You can sponsor an orphaned brother, sister, nephew, niece or grandchild only if they meet all of these requirements:

  • They are related to you by blood or adoption.
  • They are under 18 years old.
  • Both their parents have passed away.
  • They are single (not married or in a common-law relationship).

You cannot sponsor them if:

  • 1 or both of their parents is still alive.
  • No one knows where their parents are.
  • Their parents abandoned them.
  • Someone else other than their parents is taking care of them while 1 or both of their parents are alive.
  • Their parents are in jail or otherwise detained.

Other Relative

You may sponsor 1 relative of any age if you meet all of these conditions:

  • You are related to them by blood or adoption.
  • You do not have a living relative you could sponsor instead, such as a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, son or daughter, parent, grandparent, orphaned sibling, orphaned nephew or niece, or orphaned grandchild.
  • You do not have any relatives (an aunt, an uncle or any of the relatives listed above) who are Canadian citizens, permanent residents or registered Indians under the Indian Act.
  • If the relative has a spouse, partner or dependent children who will come with them to Canada, you must include them on the same sponsorship application.

IRCC does not allow you to sponsor someone who is inadmissible to Canada, which means they are not allowed to come to Canada. Read IRCC's page on who you can sponsor as a relative, or see IRCC's family sponsorship overview.

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