Since applications received as part of the 2024 intake will be accepted into processing in 2025, new Ministerial Instructions for the 2025 calendar year will come into effect January 1, 2025. These instructions provide authority to accept into processing up to 15,000 applications received as part of the 2024 intake.
Ministerial Instructions 84 (MI84): Parents and Grandparents – Canada.ca
Number of applications to be accepted for processing in a year
Only applications received in 2024 will be accepted for processing in 2025.
These Instructions authorize a maximum of 15 000 sponsorship applications received in 2024 and made in relation to applications for a permanent resident visa, which are made by sponsors’ parents or grandparents under the family class, to be accepted for processing in the 2025 calendar year, which begins on January 1, 2025, and ends on December 31, 2025.
This maximum may be amended in accordance with any subsequent Instructions the Minister may provide. Unless subsequent Instructions are given for the 2025 calendar year, no other permanent resident visa applications made by parents or grandparents under the family class and no sponsorship applications made in relation to those applications will be accepted for processing in 2025.
Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 159, Number 1: GOVERNMENT NOTICES
Katharina Kontaxis, RCIC-IRB
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