China News Service, July 21. According to the Canadian "Sing Tao Daily" report, Canadian Federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Mendicino announced on Tuesday (July 20) that Canadian nationals sponsored parents or grandparents from overseas to immigrate to Canada. The quota will be tripled to 30,000 in 2021, so as to allow more Canadians to reunite with overseas family members and reduce the guarantor’s income in 2020 to 32,270 Canadian dollars. If the guarantor receives unemployment insurance during the epidemic , As well as subsidies and benefits related to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, can be included in 2020 income.
Mendicino held a press conference at the Options Community Center in Surrey on the 20th. Mendicino said at the conference that the Liberal Party always hopes to increase the annual quota for Canadian nationals to guarantee their overseas parents or grandparents, so that more Canadian citizens and permanent Residents reunite with their families as soon as possible.
The last Conservative government only had 5,000 quotas for this type of reunion. The Liberal Party will increase a record to 30,000 quotas starting in 2021, six times more than the 5,000 quotas for the Conservative government that year.
In 2020, Canada’s immigration quota for sponsored parents or grandparents is 10,000. Mendicino said: “Due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic that lasted for more than a year, the immigration program for sponsored parents or grandparents was forced to be suspended for two years. Nationals living abroad can be reunited with their families as soon as possible, and the federal government will certainly allow more families to gather in Canada."
The Liberal Party Member of Parliament Saree said that Asian nationals in Surinam accounted for 60% of the total population. Many of the closest relatives of South Asian nationals are still overseas, and family reunion has become the wish of many local residents.
For many new immigrant communities, the Liberal Party promised to continue to pay attention to immigration projects that guarantee the reunion of relatives and formulate friendly immigration policies.
In accordance with the guidelines for the reunification of parents and grandparents given by the Federal Office of Immigration, the Department of Immigration will draw 30,000 immigration quotas from reunion immigration applications through a random lottery.
Once the applicants for reunification are selected, they will receive an invitation for immigration sponsorship from the Immigration Bureau within two weeks from the week of September 20 this year.
As the new crown pneumonia epidemic has ravaged Canada for more than a year, the national income of many immigrants applying for sponsorship has decreased. The Federal Office of Immigration has reduced the income of sponsors in 2020 to 32,270 Canadian dollars, which is far below the threshold of 41,007 Canadian dollars established in 2019.
For those who have received unemployment insurance during the epidemic period, or benefits related to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, such insurance benefits will be included in the personal income in 2020.
After the Minister of Immigration Mendicino announced the relaxation of the immigration guarantee policy for parents or grandparents, many immigration service groups on the scene expressed their praise, and more people came from afar to thank the Federal Immigration Service for reuniting her family in Canada. The Options Community Center, the venue organizer in charge of this press conference, expressed approval for the increase in the quota for reunion immigrants by the Immigration Department. The manager responsible for the settlement of new immigrants and refugees said: "Options Community Center is committed to helping new immigrants and refugees settle in the community. , To provide them with psychological counseling, study training, and help new immigrants integrate into Canadian society as soon as possible. I am very pleased with the friendly policy of the Federal Department of Immigration for immigrants and refugees."