Open PGP intake 2025
Petitioners ask the Government to open a new Parents and Grandparents PR Program intake in 2025 and to hold new PGP intakes every few years to ensure fairness for newly eligible residents.
Why we would sign this petition
- It would restore PGP access for residents who became eligible after 2020, addressing the petitioners' fairness concern.
- More frequent intakes could shorten waits and reduce prolonged family separation for newly eligible sponsors.
- A predictable, recurring intake schedule would improve planning and transparency for applicants and administrators.
Why we wouldn’t sign this petition
- Running extra intakes may increase administrative costs and require more resources from IRCC.
- Changing intake frequency could disrupt current applicants’ expectations or priorities without resolving allocation limits.
- Legal, operational or policy constraints may make scheduled intakes impractical or less effective than alternative reforms.
The summary and both sets of reasons are AI-generated from the petition and given equal weight. Claims are the petitioners’ own; consult the official record for the full text.
Official petition
Petition to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canadian residents who became eligible to sponsor parents or grandparents after 2020 are being unfairly excluded from the PGP program; The PGP program is unfairly biased towards applicants who submitted their applications in 2020, without any explanation or merit; and While the previous government followed a particular approach, if the new government continues to follow this approach for the next 4 years, newly eligible residents may have to wait a decade to reunite with their families. We, the undersigned, Canadian residents, call upon the Government of Canada to be fair to all Canadian residents in the processing of the Parents and Grandparents PR Program (PGP), by 1. Issuing new applications for the program in 2025, using those to issue invitations for 2025; 2. Issuing new applications for the PGP intake every few years to maintain fairness to all Canadian residents. 1. Issuing new applications for the program in 2025, using those to issue invitations for 2025; 2. Issuing new applications for the PGP intake every few years to maintain fairness to all Canadian residents.
Government response
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