The federal government has hit pause on a popular immigration program that allows people to sponsor their parents or grandparents to come to Canada.
The parents and grandparents program normally opens for applications once a year, and often in January.
"These instructions will allow the Department sufficient time to complete the development of a new application intake management process for the parents and grandparents sponsorship program, to be implemented in 2020," he wrote in a set of instructions published Dec. 20, and circulated by his department to the public this week.
Applications used to be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis in person, but that system was scrapped after people effectively bought their way to the front of the line by hiring couriers to ensure their forms were at the top of the pile. The Liberal government promised after that to review the system yet again, but a decision on what would happen for the 2020 program was delayed by the federal election.
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