The family class sponsorship application is available if you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident living in Canada, and you want to sponsor close family members living abroad, including:

Spousal Sponsorship

If you are a Permanent Resident of Canada or a Canadian Citizen, you are eligible to sponsor your spouse to Canada. You will need to provide strong documentation with respect to the genuineness of your relationship. You can file an inland or overseas spousal sponsorship application. Depending on your circumstances, you should consider the differences of both applications so that you can determine which option best suits yours circumstances.

Common-Law Partner Sponsorship

If you have been living together in a conjugal relationship for at least one year in an ongoing 12-month period (you are allowed short absences for business travel or family reasons) then you may be eligible to sponsor your common law partner.

Conjugal Partner Sponsorship Canada  

Conjugal Partner Sponsorship category is for partners either of the opposite sex or same sex in situations beyond their control that keep them from living together so they would count as common-law partners or spouses. A Conjugal relationship is more than a physical relationship. It means you depend on each other, there is some permanence to the relationship, and there is the same level of commitment as a marriage or a common-law partnership.

Parental Sponsorship

A Canadian citizen or permanent resident can also sponsor their foreign parents for permanent residence in Canada. However, these applications require that the sponsor proves that they have adequate income to support the sponsored individual.

Dependent Child Sponsorship

Canadian citizens or permanent resident  can sponsor their foreign-born dependent child or children to immigrate to Canada. A dependent child means a child under the age of 22 who is unmarried and not in a common-law relationship. The child may be your biological or adopted child.

Super Visas

Super visa is given to parents and grandparents of the citizens and permanent residents of Canada who wants to visit Canada. This is a new option provided from December 1, 2011.  This visa is valid for 10 years and will allow the applicant to remain in Canada up to 2 years at a time without renewing the status of the visa.