Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has updated the minimum income requirements needed to sponsor parents or grandparents for permanent residency in 2025.Canadian citizens and permanent residents looking to sponsor relatives under the Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) must have made a minimum of $47,549 in 2024.To sponsor parents or grandparents through the PGP program, you must meet the income requirement for three tax years preceding the date of application.
So for the 2025 intake, you need to meet the income requirements for the years 2024, 2023, and 2022. The amount of income you would need is proportional to the size of your familyThis is an increase of a minimum of $3,000 compared to the previous year. You can meet the minimum income requirements either as an individual, or by combining income with a co-signing spouse or common law partner. When calculating family size, you need to account for everyone you will be financially responsible for – not just the people coming to Canada.
This includes the following:
Yourself.
Your spouse or common law partner
– If it’s a spouse, you will need to include them even if separated in most cases.
– If they are co-signing the application, include them for all three years.
– If they are not, only include them for the years they meet the definition of spouse or common law partner.
Dependent children.
– This includes your dependent children, your spouse’s dependent children, as well as dependent children of the dependent children.
– You only need to include children for the years they meet the definition of a dependent child.
Anyone you or your co-signer have sponsored in the past.
– You would have to also include any family members of the person sponsored (their spouses, common-law partners, and/or dependent children).
The people you want to sponsor.
– This includes the person you are sponsoring (principal applicant).
– Their spouse or common law partner (this also includes their separated spouses unless they have a new partner).
– Their dependent children and dependent children of the dependent children (if any).
You have to include the principal applicant’s family members even if they aren’t coming to Canada, and/or even if they are permanent residents of Canada or Canadian citizens.