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Reopening of the Federal Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) 2025 Intake

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryCanada
Operative dateJuly 28, 2025
CategoryFamily
Policy toolNew pathway
Affected groupNew applicants

Policy effect

IRCC has officially reopened the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) for 2025, accepting up to 10,000 complete sponsorship applications. Invitations are restricted to individuals who submitted an 'interest to sponsor' form in 2020 and have not yet been invited.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: IRCC has officially reopened the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) for 2025, accepting up to 10,000 complete sponsorship applications.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

… late July **Ottawa, July 16, 2025**— [As announced earlier in 2025](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/update-2025-parents-grandparents-program.html), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will accept up to 10,000 complete applications for sponsorship under the Parents and Grandparents Program this year. Starting on **July 28, 2025**, and over the course of approximately two weeks, IRCC will send invitations to apply to interested potential sponsors. **Anyone who submitted an interest to sponsor form in 2020 but has not yet received an invitation … to apply is encouraged to check the email account they provided in 2020. They should make sure to check their junk and spam folders.** Due to the number of forms remaining in the pool of interest to sponsor submissions from 2020, IRCC will send invitations to apply to potential sponsors from that pool instead of opening a new interest to sponsor form. Those invited to apply as part of the 2025 intake can submit their applications electronically through the [Permanent Residence Portal](https://prson-srpel.apps.cic.gc.ca/en/login) or the [Representative Permanent Residence Portal](https://prson …
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Reopening of the Federal Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) 2025 Intake. Effective 2025-07-28.Open official source
Retrieved from https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/parents-grandparents-program-intake-opens-late-july.html

Review method

Two separate automated exact-claim source reviews

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