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Spouse Sponsorship: Assessing a Common-law Relationship
7. Federal Immigration ProgramsFamily Class (Spouses, Dependent Children, Parents)
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Spouse Sponsorship: Assessing a Common-law Relationship

This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
In the immigration context, a common-law partnership means that a couple have lived together for at least one year in a conjugal relationship [R1(1)]. A common-law relationship exists from the day on which two individuals can provide evidence to support their cohabitation in a conjugal relationship. The onus is on the applicant to prove that they have been living common-law for at least one year before an application is received at CPC-M.

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How to Sponsor Your Parents and Grandparents
7. Federal Immigration ProgramsFamily Class (Adopted Children and Other Relatives)Family Class (Spouses, Dependent Children, Parents)
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How to Sponsor Your Parents and Grandparents

About the process
If you submitted the interest to sponsor form in 2020 and were invited to apply to the 2022 intake, you were able to sponsor your parents and grandparents to become permanent residents of Canada.

Between October 12 and 20, 2022, we invited potential sponsors to apply. The deadline to apply has now passed.

We aren’t accepting any more applications for the 2022 process.

If you were invited to apply, there were 2 applications that must have been submitted for the parents and grandparents program:

the sponsorship application and
the permanent residence application
If both applications are approved, you’ll sign an agreement called an undertaking that starts on the day the person you’re sponsoring (and their family members, if this applies) becomes a permanent resident of Canada. This agreement is discussed under Who is eligible to sponsor a parent or grandparent.

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Family Class: Determining Family Membership
7. Federal Immigration ProgramsFamily Class (Spouses, Dependent Children, Parents)
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Family Class: Determining Family Membership

Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR), Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada can sponsor the following members of their family:  spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner (opposite or same-sex), dependent children, parents, grand-parents, children adopted from abroad, and under specific circumstances, other relatives. Members of the family class must meet all of the following requirements.

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Q&A: application for PR made by foreign parents of Canadian citizen
C10. IRCC Policies and ManualsImmigration Knowledge Base
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Q&A: H&C application for PR made by foreign parents of Canadian citizen

Can a single child apply for the Permanent Residency for their parents on H&C basis? Parents’ ages are 50 years for both. They are currently in Canada on a Super Visa and their stay is expiring soon. They want to live here in Canada permanently with their only son who is 25 years old and not married yet. What would be good arguments?

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