Family Class Sponsorship Processing Time

Sponsoring the following family members or relatives will take:

• 1 year – spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, and dependent child.
• 2 years – parents and grandparents.
• 31 months – Humanitarian and Compassionate cases – H&C.  Any category of family sponsorship may involve a request for consideration of humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
• Sponsorship time for adopted children and other relatives should be checked with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on a case by case basis.

Complications, such as missing documents, wrong or incomplete forms, a wrong type of application may cause a delay or even return of an application.