Canadian citizens and permanent residents may sponsor their parents or grandparents for permanent residence.

You must be able to:

• support them financially
• make sure they don’t need social assistance from the government

Whom can you sponsor?

• You can sponsor your own parents and grandparents, related by blood or adoption
• In the application, you can include your brothers and sisters, or half brothers and sisters, or step-brothers and step-sisters only if they qualify as dependent children