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When do you expect to end the temporary pause on parent and grandparent sponsorship applications?

Citizenship and Immigration Canada is looking at ways to better manage wait times and the number of applications in the parent and grandparent category. It expects to start accepting new applications again when a new option is in place. That should happen later in 2013.

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