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What does this pause mean for existing parent and grandparent sponsorship applications?

The Case Processing Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, will keep processing any applications that arrived before November 5, 2011, using current procedures.

It will also keep accepting applications for which it approved the initial sponsorship application before November 5, 2011.

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