Canadian family reunion immigrants have passed the physical examination and RPRF has been handed in. How long will it take? Is RPRF the last program?

1. Standard processing time for family reunion immigrants (sponsoring parents and grandparents)

Applicants and sponsors may realize that the standard processing time for sponsoring parents and grandparents' family reunion immigration applications is longer than in the past. We hope to provide you with the reasons for this change and how long the new processing time will be. We understand your eagerness to complete these applications as soon as possible, but unfortunately, it may not always be so fast.

Deciding the priority of different visa categories requires us to make difficult decisions. Existing resources and different public policy objectives are factors to be considered. Every year, the Canadian government publishes the quantitative indicators that each immigrant category needs to achieve. It is very important to manage immigrants within the prescribed objectives and make use of the resources allocated by Parliament to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which is also part of our cooperation with the provinces, which are responsible for providing social and other services to new immigrants. In order to achieve the policy objectives announced by the government, the quantitative indicators are further divided into economic and non-economic categories.

At the same time, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will invest all available resources to ensure that the applications of family reunion immigrants (sponsored couples, partners and children) who enjoy priority treatment are processed as soon as possible. Our expected processing time for these applications is 6 months, but only a few of them can reach this speed at present, and 80% of the applications will take about 1 1 month to process. We hope to concentrate on making improvements in this respect. We also have the obligation to achieve the goals set by our humanitarian projects, that is, resettle refugees from abroad and provide permanent resident status for those protected by Canada. In other words, these applications enjoy priority in the non-economic category. According to different categories, these global indicators will be divided into more specific indicators and handed over to foreign visa officers.