GIMVS can help Canadian permanent resident or citizen age 18 or over with a family member who wants to immigrate to Canada. Family reunification remains one of the pillars of the Canadian immigration system. If you sponsor a relative to come to Canada as a permanent resident, you are responsible for supporting your relative financially when he or she arrives, meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter for yourself and your family and make sure your spouse or relative does not need to ask for financial help from the government.

To be eligible, the person seeking sponsorship must be a:
• Spouse, common-law or conjugal partner
• Dependent child or child you plan to adopt must be 21 or younger
• Parents
• Grandparents
• Sibling, nephew, niece or grandchild under 18 years who is unmarried and whose parents are deceased
• Other relative: Only Lonely Canadians are eligible to sponsor (have no other family living in Canada)

The person sponsored must live outside Canada, unless they are residing legally in Canada temporarily, for example with a work or study permit.

In 2019 The Government of Canada intake process for parents and grandparent's program (PGP) moved from a draw to a first come, first served model. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) decided to select 27,000 applications through online first come first system.
To be eligible to sponsor:

• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You must be a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident
• You must meet or exceed the minimum necessary income requirement for Family Sponsorship
• You are responsible for supporting your parent or grandparent financially when he or she arrives. As a sponsor, you must make sure your parent or grandparent does not need to seek social assistance from the government.
• You must sign an undertaking agreement that commits you to provide financial support for your sponsored parents or grandparents and repay any provincial social assistance benefits paid to the sponsored family members for 20 years.
• If the sponsor lives in Quebec, an additional undertaking agreement must be signed
• Sponsors must provide Notices of Assessment from the CRA to IRCC to prove that they meet the minimum necessary income requirement.
While parents immigration program might not be an option for you at this time, you may also consider temporary residence programs such as super visa and visitor visa

The spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner looking to immigrate to Canada under spousal sponsorship category must be sponsored by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
There are 2 types of applications for Spouse and Common-Law Sponsorship
OUTLAND SPOUSAL SPONSORSHIP:

Your application will be processed through the visa office in the sponsored spouse's country of citizenship or where they legally reside (if outside Canada). If you and your Spouse/Common-law partner live together in Canada, you can still apply under this category. Applying under this category will make you eligible to Appeal a refusal. You will not have rights to appeal for an Inland Spousal Application.

If you applied to sponsor spouse outside Canada, once decision is made and sponsorship application is approved, Canadian immigration authorities will issue the applicant Canada Visa (a confirmation of permanent residence).
Applicant (person being sponsored) will become permanent resident upon landing in Canada, and must enter Canada before the expiry date, which appears on temporary visa.

Your application will be processed in Canada and you and your sponsor MUST live together. The person being sponsored MUST have temporary status in Canada as a worker, student, or visitor. The person being sponsored may be eligible for an Open Work Permit.
To be eligible to be a Sponsor
• You must be a Canadian Citizen, or Permanent Resident (living in Canada)
• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You cannot be in prison, bankrupt, under a removal order (if a permanent resident) or charged with a serious offence
• You, yourself, cannot have been sponsored to Canada as a spouse within the last 5 years.
• Your relationship is genuine (real) and was not entered into primarily for the purpose of acquiring Permanent Residence

To be eligible to be sponsored by a Sponsor

• You must be at least 18 years of age

Requirements AFTER sponsorship

• The sponsor is financially responsible for the person sponsored for three years after the sponsored person becomes a permanent resident.
• Individuals who come to Canada as spouses are themselves barred from sponsoring a spouse in turn for five years after receiving Canadian permanent residence.

• If an Inland Spousal application is refused, there are no rights to an appeal (as there are with Outland applications). If an application is refused, the person in Canada will no longer have status. The only option would be to file a Judicial review on the original application or submit a new application. A Judicial Review process will take 6 to 12 months, plus up to 6 additional months for IRCC to process the application.
• If the application was an Outland application, an appeal can be filed with the IAD (immigration appeal division) and a hearing date will be scheduled to be held in 1.5 to 2 years. During this time, your spouse will not be able to travel to Canada, unless they already have a valid TRV. If they do not have a valid TRV, the IRCC will not issue a TRV after a refused sponsorship application.

Family reunification is a key immigration priority for the Government of Canada. Canada recognize that when families can live and work together, their integration outcomes are improved.

That is why the Government of Canada is extending the open work permit pilot for spouses and common-law partners applying for permanent residence under the spouse or common-law partner in Canada (SCLPC) class until July 31, 2020. This ensures applicants are able to work, provide for their families and contribute to the Canadian economy while waiting for their applications to be processed.

To be eligible for an open work permit, you must be a spouse or common-law partner living in Canada who is being sponsored under the SCLPC class. You must have valid temporary resident status (as a visitor, student, or worker) and live at the same address as your sponsor.
GIMVS can help in processing the application.