Canada PGP breaks records by inviting 27,195 new immigrants in 2022

Highlights: 27,195 new immigrants invited through PGP in 2022

• Canada’s Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) invited 27,195 immigrants in 2022.
• Ottawa aims to allocate 465,000 candidates as permanent residents for the year 2023.
• A total of 1.45 million immigrants are set to be invited by Canada within the next three years.
• Canada invited 406,040 new permanent residents in 2021.
• Applicants are required to pay $1050 to sponsor a grandparent or parents.
• The processing time for the PGP application is 39 months.

Canada PGP in 2022

• Canada invited double the number of candidates compared to 2021 via the PGP program in 2022.
• Canada is working on rebuilding its PGP numbers as PGP is based on the current residents of Canada.

The table below lists the total number of candidates invited to the country through the PGP program.

Year	Number of PGP invitees
2022	27,195
2021	11,740
2020
2019

1.5 million Immigrants to be invited within 2025

The Canada Immigration levels plan 2023-2025 is given below -

Immigration level plans	Permanent residents
2023	465,000 permanent residents
2024	485,000 permanent residents
2025	500,000 permanent residents

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