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To everyone: Most likely this is not the only forum where you check news about parents sponsorship. If you have a local forum / message board from your country, please leave a link here or send me a message. I'd like to align various groups efforts, as together we are stronger.

K2K, thank you for linking the article. I do monitor the forum periodically, but yes I pursue other ways of raising the concern and gaining allies as well.

Nobody knows, they will determine themselves depending on how many applications they will actually receive. The fact that in 2018 they chose 15,000 interested sponsors with the intention of getting only 10,000 applications (eligible or ineligible, but complete applications) says that they...

*sigh*

Basically you need to compare line 150 from your NOA to the required income for the last 3 years. In case of co-signer, add both of yours together. If it does not meet it even by a dollar, you are considered ineligible. Also from your post it is not clear if you already expressed interest in...

If you were NOT selected, and you are FRUSTRATED with the process, join this thread, let's work together to have clear and predictable parents sponsorship rules https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/parents-sponsorship-stop-immigration-lottery.543534/

The 2018 lottery, round 1, is up: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/family-sponsorship/sponsor-parents-grandparents/selected.html Last year chances were 1 in 10. With any type of lottery you may NEVER be selected. If you would like the lottery...

I wrote to many MPs in the past year to get their opinion and a feel for what each party thinks about the current state of the PGP program. Pretty soon I realized I am being sent template letters - see below - which tells me already that it's a big enough issue that they distribute templates to...

I think it's pretty much known Liberals won't win the next election. Petitioning is part of democracy I decided not to vote in this past election

It's still the case today, nothing changed, it's all window dressing about backlog and processing times. As I mentioned earlier, now the average real wait is about 15 years. Just now we have the "official" backlog (which they will keep stable), and "unofficial" backlog (growing) of people...

That's it. The key word in this sentence is "IF". With the lottery now it takes ON AVERAGE 15 years to be selected and process, for some will be shorter, for some longer, for some never. When done on FIFO basis it was only ~7 years, and everyone was processed, and everyone could plan their...

I've signed many as well - but the way I see them happen is somewhat disorganized. That's why the website and this thread are created, to get input from many people, come up with something sensible, and then spread the message. Once the e-petition is created, it has 120 days to collect over...

There was a lot of discussion dedicated to the types of costs, why some LICO level exists, etc. While an interesting discussion, I come to more and more understanding that govt wants to make as little changes as possible at a time, and I don't think they will be changing sponsor eligibility...

I think is a terrific idea, something very reasonable and (hopefully) easily doable by the govt. Question: IF this logic was introduced for 2019, should they do: a) Ask people for their 2017 and 2018 lottery ticket numbers, and corresponding NOAs - so maximum number of entries will be 3 in 2019...

I was away just one day :) But thank you for noticing. You will also notice I generally post only in the EST evenings - simply don't have much other time on hand

Agree, parents are not exactly foreigners. But just to note, from the experience I see, once parents arrive (selling property in own country), they give money to the kids and kids buy property in their own name - this way the family avoids the transfer tax, but since the cost is same either way...

When parents arrive on super-visa, the only thing they can do is basically stay at home, and if the child has kids - stay with kids. They cannot study and cannot work. Many people will die of boredom if they are not occupied by something meaningful. Depending on parents age the insurance may...

Thank you, I think this is a great start. If we can come up with something sensible, possibly someone may take a note in the govt and improve the process. I think this year is much better than the first. They gather quite a lot of information to minimize duplicate submissions, but there will...

Considering Canadian economy and population growth are largely based around bringing skilled people into the country, society is the immigrants. Think about it. Here is the psychology you are describing, it's sort of messed up if you ask me: - Do you want your family to be with you? - Yes, of...

I would love to hear constructive comments that will help the intended purposes. Feel free to write better wording here or in private messages, I will update the website I did a lot of research into that, and spoke to ministers about this specific suggestion. The short answer: this will never...