Hello

I have submitted application with invitation letter for my Father 3 months ago and till date there is no reply or communication from IRCC. Trying to contact the office but phone line is asking for application number which I haven't got yet. I have tried to link the file in my account and tried online tool for locate the submission but no luck. Please share with your experiences on next step to find what actually going on with my application.

How we process your application
We’ll review your sponsorship application and return it to you if:

it’s incomplete
fees are missing
you weren’t invited to submit a complete application
we didn’t receive it within the deadline specified in your invitation
If we begin to process your application, we’ll:

send you an:
application number
acknowledgment of receipt
assess your eligibility as a sponsor
assess if the person you’re sponsoring is eligible for permanent residence
If we refuse you as a sponsor
If we refuse you as a sponsor, you can choose to have us continue processing the application for permanent residence for your family members.

If you choose to withdraw your application, you won’t get the $75 CAN sponsorship fee back. You’ll get all other fees back.
If you want us to continue processing, you won’t get any fees back.
If you’re approved as a sponsor
We’ll assess the eligibility of the person(s) you want to sponsor.

Your parents and grandparents can link their application to their online account
When we start processing your family members’ application, we’ll send them a letter with their application number.

After they get this letter, the principal applicant can link their application to their online account. This way, they can communicate with us quickly and securely and get updates and messages about their application online.

Find out how to create an online account and link an application.

You (the sponsor) can link their application for them if you’re handling your family members’ application and you’re designated as their representative.

See the top questions about linking your application.

The persons you’re sponsoring must send us the additional documents we need.
During processing, we’ll ask the persons you’re sponsoring to submit their:

biometrics
When the biometrics fee is paid, we’ll send your family members a letter asking them to give their biometrics.
Your family members must show this letter when they give their biometrics.
They have 30 days to give their biometrics in person at their closest collection point.
medical exams
police certificates
We’ll send instructions and let your family members know how much time they have to send us this information.

You must tell us of any change in circumstances, such as:

birth or adoption of children
marriage or divorce
death of an applicant or dependant
If you live in Quebec
You must do the following steps before we assess the eligibility of your family members:

the person you’re sponsoring must complete and sign the Demande de sélection permanen – Catégorie du re-groupement familial (Application for permanent selection – Family reunification class) form and return it to you promptly.
You must enclose this form with your undertaking application to the Government of Quebec.
If the Government of Quebec approves your undertaking application, they’ll send us the information we need to process your parents’ and grandparents` permanent resident application.

If we approve your parents’ and grandparents’ permanent residence application
To finish processing their application, your parents and grandparents, and their dependants who are immigrating to Canada with them, will have to send us:

their passports, or photocopies of their passports (we’ll let you know which one they should send)
2 photos
the receipt for the right of permanent residence fee, if you haven’t sent it to us already.
We’ll let them know where to send this information. Once we have it and we finish processing their application, we’ll send them:

a document confirming they have been approved to become Canadian permanent residents
We call this document the Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR).
a permanent resident visa, if required
If the persons you’re sponsoring are from countries whose citizens need a visa to travel to Canada, we’ll give them a permanent resident visa in their passport. We’ll do this even if they are already in Canada.
Check the expiry dates on the permanent resident visa and COPR.

The persons you’re sponsoring will have to show their COPR and their permanent resident visa (if we issued one) to the border services officer or immigration officer in Canada before their documents expire.

Find out more about how your family members can prepare for arrival.

If we refuse your parents’ and grandparents’ permanent residence application
If we refuse their permanent residence application, we’ll let you know:

why we refused it
how to appeal the decision

Please read and understand the system.

Good luck,

FH.


xxxxx EDIT.:

Individuals completing the form are not asked to provide any information about the parent(s) or grandparent(s) they are looking to sponsor. Moreover, individuals completing the form are not asked to provide any information relating to their income, or any other financial questions. As a result, the form does not evaluate for program eligibility, and potential sponsors are encouraged to have their eligibility assessed by other means before moving forward with completing the new form.

Submitting the form is not an application to the program. The 2017 PGP application package will be available as of January 9, 2017.

pgp-form1
This is what the new PGP ‘Interest to Sponsor’ form looks like.

After submitting the form
After the form has been submitted, a confirmation page will be presented. This page will include a confirmation number, which should be noted and kept by the potential sponsor who completed the form for his or her records.

Sponsors will be chosen at random from among those who complete the online form. On or after February 2, IRCC will select up to 10,000 individuals from the pool of potential sponsors who submitted the form. These individuals will be notified by email and will have 90 days to submit their complete application, including supporting documents. The range of supporting documentation may be extensive, with IRCC requiring that sponsors submit income taxation records, documents relating to civil status, and other material.

Individuals who are not selected for this application cycle will also be contacted, and will have the option to indicate their interest in applying in 2018.
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XX When will the Parents and Grandparents Program re-open to new applications?
If you want to sponsor your parents and grandparents, your first step is to check if you’re eligible to be a sponsor.

If you’re eligible, you must fill out a short online form to show you’re interested in sponsoring.

The interest to sponsor form was available for a limited time on January 28, 2019. We accepted 27,000 submissions on a first-in basis.

We invited potential sponsors to submit complete applications in the same order we got the interest to sponsor forms online.

If we invited you to apply, we need your complete application before the deadline on your invitation.

Details and opening date for the 2020 parents and grandparents program will be posted on this site when details are confirmed.


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Originally posted by mitpatel1

Hello

I have submitted application with invitation letter for my Father 3 months ago and till date there is no reply or communication from IRCC. Trying to contact the office but phone line is asking for application number which I haven't got yet. I have tried to link the file in my account and tried online tool for locate the submission but no luck. Please share with your experiences on next step to find what actually going on with my application.

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Interesting. Thank you