Family Sponsorship
You can sponsor close family members living abroad, including:
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Parents;
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Grandparents;
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Children adopted outside of Canada or intended to be adopted
in Canada;
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Brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, grandsons or
granddaughters who are orphaned, under 18 years of age and not a
spouse or common-law partner;
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Any other family member if there is no spouse, common-law or
conjugal partner, son, daughter, mother, father, brother, sister,
grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew who is a
Canadian citizen, registered Indian or permanent resident or whom
you may sponsor.
If you want to be re-united in Canada with a relative or family
member living abroad, you must sponsor that relative or family
member to immigrate as a member of the Family Class.
