First-Serve System: Lottery and Remi Lariviere

first-serve system: A spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada IRCC said Thursday that a total of 95,100 submissions were received in the first round of the lottery, which ended on Feb. 2, according to CTV. The 10,000 randomly selected individuals now have 90 days to submit their full applications to sponsor a parent or a grandparent. The lottery system was introduced by the Liberal government as a way of alleviating sponsorship application backlogs under the old, first-come, first-serve system. Anyone who was not selected this year can enter the lottery again in 2018, Remi Lariviere said in an email to CTVNews.ca. I was more than unhappy when the system changed, Kevork Tanielian, a Toronto-area man who is trying to bring his mother to Canada from Bulgaria, told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview Thursday. Many applicants have spoken out against the lottery system, saying that the important issue of family reunification shouldn't depend on luck. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.