Filipiniana News – December 2018 By Maria Deanna P. Santos In January 2019, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is expected to relaunch the online form where permanent residents and Canadian citizens can express interest to sponsor parents or grandparents (PGP) for permanent residence under the family class. The old lottery system for PGP sponsorships had been eliminated and will be replaced by a first-come, first served system. That is, IRCC will issue invitations to apply to those who have submitted their intent to sponsor based on the order that they were received, until the new annual quota of 20,000 applications had been reached. The detailed guidelines for the revised PGP sponsorship application process have not been issued by IRCC as of this writing. Nonetheless, it is expected that as in the current system, the sponsors who have been invited to sponsor their parents or grandparents will be given 60 days within wh...