China News Service, September 26. According to the Canadian "Sing Tao Daily" report, the Canadian Federal Department of Immigration (IRCC) announced earlier that starting from the 20th, it will start the 2021 sponsored parent-grandparent (PGP) applicant lottery, and the approved limit is 3 Ten thousand people.
The Ministry of Immigration announced that starting from the 23rd, within two weeks, it will send out an invitation to apply for a guarantor to the selected persons.
According to the unofficial immigration information website CIC News, the entire lottery will last about two weeks, and those who are selected will receive an invitation letter from the Immigration Department from the 23rd to October 7th.
The invited person must submit the formal and complete application materials for the sponsorship qualification to the Immigration Department within 60 days.
The invitation letter will be sent to the applicant by e-mail, and those who are eligible to participate in the lottery should pay special attention to checking it in the near future.
The need for Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor their parents and grandparents to immigrate has always been in short supply, and Canada cannot approve applications in an unlimited number. Therefore, the Department of Immigration will announce an approved maximum amount every year and require applicants to submit a form to inform the Department of Immigration. They are interested in sponsoring. Parents and grandparents emigrate.
In the past, the Ministry of Immigration opened the "Interested Guarantee" form on its website. In a short period of time, more than 100,000 prospective guarantors visited the website to fill in and submit the "Interested Guarantee" form.
As the situation of "more monks and less porridge" has been going on for many years, the Immigration Department has adopted a lottery method in recent years.
What is currently going on is the lottery process for guarantors from 2020 to 2021.
In this round of time, the Ministry of Immigration will first open its website from October to November 2020, allowing people who intend to sponsor their parents and grandparents to migrate online and submit an "interested sponsor" form to the Ministry of Immigration.
Then the Ministry of Immigration held a lottery in January this year, and 10,000 people were selected from the above-mentioned applicants.
The current lottery still draws candidates from the same database, and only those who have submitted the "interested sponsor" form between October and November last year are eligible to participate in the current lottery.
The Ministry of Immigration has not specified how the guarantors of the PGP immigration program in 2022 will be generated.
If you are one of the 30,000 people drawn in this lottery and you have received an invitation letter from the Immigration Department in the near future, you should complete the following tasks as soon as possible after receiving the letter.
The first is to reconfirm that you are qualified as a guarantor for the 2021 PGP immigration program before submitting the application materials.
The guarantor must be at least 18 years old, a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, or legally aboriginal status.
The guarantor must prove to the Department of Immigration that his income meets the "minimum necessary income" standard set by the Department of Immigration.
To this end, the guarantor must submit the tax returns for 2020, 2019 and 2018 issued by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Quebec residents must also provide proof of income for the guarantor and co-guarantor for the past 12 months as required by the provincial government.
After confirming that you meet the above-mentioned qualification requirements, you must submit the complete formal guarantor qualification application materials to the Immigration Department within 60 days, and pay the application fee and submit the receipt together with the application materials.
Both the Federal Department of Immigration and the Quebec government require the guarantor to sign a letter of undertaking, promising that if the parents and grandparents apply for social welfare in Canada in the future, the guarantor has the legal responsibility to return the money to the government. The guarantee period is 10 years for Quebec residents and 20 for non-Quebec residents. year.
If you are not selected in this lottery, you can consider applying for a 10-year multi-entry super visa for your parents and grandparents. After entering the country, you can stay for two years.
This is an alternative measure before sponsoring parents and grandparents to immigrate.