Immigration Officials: Immigration and Sponsor Someone

immigration officials: Beginning January 3, Canadians will have 30 days to fill out an online form indicating their desire to sponsor someone, according to Huffington Post Canada. From those, immigration officials will randomly draw 10,000 individuals who will then be asked to submit the full application within 90 days. The Liberals announced Wednesday that instead, applications for the coveted parent and grandparent visa program will now be selected by lottery, and not by which ones arrive first. Immigration Minister John McCallum speaks in Montreal on Dec. 11, 2016. That raised concerns that the visas were going to those who could afford to pay the high fees or camp out for hours at the Mississauga, Ont., immigration office the only place in Canada accepting the forms. Photo Graham Hughes/CP The change comes after The Canadian Press reported earlier this year that the old first-come, first-serve system was seeing couriers charge more than 400 to guarantee applications would be at the top of the pile. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.