Moving to Canada - Parent and Grandparent Program
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Moving to Canada - Parent and Grandparent Program
New Parent and Grandparent program re-opens January 2, 2014
It's good news if you are hoping to move to Canada under sponsorship from your children or grandchildren as processing times set to speed up.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada will re-open the Parent and Grandparent (PGP) program for new applications on January 2, 2014, by which time the backlog and wait times in the program are expected to have been cut in half. “The Action Plan for Faster Family Reunification is on track to meet the goals of cutting in half the backlog and wait times in the Parent and Grandparent program,” said Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. “It is very important that we continue to make progress and not return to the old broken system with wait times as long as a decade—that would be unfair to families.”
Read more: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/departm...2013-05-10.asp
It's good news if you are hoping to move to Canada under sponsorship from your children or grandchildren as processing times set to speed up.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada will re-open the Parent and Grandparent (PGP) program for new applications on January 2, 2014, by which time the backlog and wait times in the program are expected to have been cut in half. “The Action Plan for Faster Family Reunification is on track to meet the goals of cutting in half the backlog and wait times in the Parent and Grandparent program,” said Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney. “It is very important that we continue to make progress and not return to the old broken system with wait times as long as a decade—that would be unfair to families.”
Read more: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/departm...2013-05-10.asp