How many applications to sponsor parents and grandparents do you accept each intake?
The application target (the number of applications we’ll accept) for each intake is determined by the number of applications needed to reach the future admission target (the number of persons we’ll admit each year for permanent residence). The admission target for the parents and grandparents category is set annually for the next 3 years in the Multi-Year Levels Plan.
For the 2024 intake, the application target is 20,500.
We send as many invitations as we estimate will be needed to reach the application target. This means we issue more invitations than the application target since not everyone who is invited to apply will actually do so. For the 2024 intake, we’ll send 35,700 invitations.
Number of invitations sent and the application targets in previous intake years:
| Intake Year | Invitations Sent | Application Target |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 24,200 | 15,000 |
| 2022 | 23,100 | 15,000 |
| 2021 | 34,500 | 30,000 |
| 2020 | 13,400 | 10,000 |
| 2019 | 26,376 | 20,000 |
| 2018 | 23,500 | 17,000 |
| 2017 | 16,500 | 10,000 |
| 2016 | - | 10,000 |
| 2015 | - | 5,000 |
| 2014 | - | 5,000 |
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