Family First

Sponsor your spouse, partner or dependent children

If you’re eligible, you can sponsor your spouse, partner or dependent children to become permanent residents of Canada.

If you do, you must be able to:

• Support them financially

• Make sure they don’t need social assistance from the government

Visit your children or grandchildren

You can sponsor your own parents and grandparents if

• you’re invited to apply

• you’re at least 18 years old

• you live in Canada

• you’re a Canadian citizen,

• A permanent resident of Canada, or

• A person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act

You have enough money to support the people you want to sponsor

to show that you have enough,

• You’ll have to provide your proof of income

• You may have a spouse or common-law partner co-sign to combine your incomes

You meet all other requirements under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Sponsor your parents and grandparents

A super visa lets you visit your children or grandchildren with a multi-entry visa that provides multiple entries for a period up to 10 years. You can stay for 5 years or more at a time. If you want to stay for 6 months or less, apply for a visitor visa.

Sponsor your adopted child

There are two processes that you must go through when you adopt a child from another country: the adoption process and the immigration process.

The immigration process has two parts:

• the application for sponsorship; and

• the application for permanent residence for the child.

After your child arrives in Canada as a permanent resident, you can apply for citizenship on the child’s behalf. However, the adoption must be finalized before the child can be granted citizenship.