lottery – AKCanada https://www.akcanada.com A Blog all about Canadian Immigration Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:10:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 https://www.akcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/favicon.jpg lottery – AKCanada https://www.akcanada.com 32 32 Government Announcement Regarding 2020 Parent and Grandparent Sponsorships https://www.akcanada.com/government-announcement-regarding-2020-parent-and-grandparent-sponsorships/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:42:01 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1340 On December 30, 2019, the Government of Canada announced the postponement of the 2020 Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship Program until further notice to allow the Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) sufficient time to complete the development of a new intake process for the program.  IRCC wants to develop an intake process which will ensure […]

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]]> Federal Government eliminates Family Reunification lottery; accepting 20,000 more Parent/Grandparent Sponsorship Applications https://www.akcanada.com/federal-government-eliminates-family-reunification-lottery-accepting-20000-more-parentgrandparent-sponsorship-applications/ Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:30:35 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1311 Today, Monday, August 20, 2018, the Government of Canada announced that it will be eliminating the lottery system for reuniting immigrant families and reverting back to a first-come, first-served system in 2019. The federal government announced it will admit up to 20,500 parents and grandparents under its reunification program in 2019, and 21,000 in 2020. […]

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]]> Canada Immigration – Changes to Parent/Grandparent Sponsorships https://www.akcanada.com/changes-to-parentgrandparent-sponsorships/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:02:41 +0000 https://www.akcanada.com/blog/?p=1275 Today, Wednesday, December 14, 2016, The Honourable John McCallum, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced changes to Parent and Grandparent Sponsorships that, in his opinion, “will improve access to the application process, given that the number of applications accepted for intake is limited”. Between January 3 and February 2, 2017, Canadian citizens […]

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