Family class immigration is the second largest category under Canada’s Immigration Level Plan. In 2023, Canada hopes to welcome 106,500 newcomers under the family class category, with 78,000 under the spouses, partners and children category and 28,500 under the parents and grandparents category. By 2025, Canada aims to welcome 118,000 newcomers through family-class immigration.

Family class sponsorship allows Canadian citizens and permanent residents to sponsor a person to join them in Canada and become a permanent resident.

To be eligible as a sponsor, you must:

• Be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada
• Be 18 years of age or older
• Not be in prison, bankrupt, under a removal order or charged with a serious offence
• Not have been sponsored as a spouse within the last 5 years.

Spouses, common law and conjugal partners, children, parents and grandparents may all be sponsored, provided they meet the required eligibility criteria.