Program delivery update: Inland processing (IP) manual chapter IP 2, Processing applications to sponsor members of the family class, now modernized
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
July 19, 2019
The inland processing (IP) manual chapter IP 2, Processing applications to sponsor members of the family class, has been fully modernized and incorporated into the family class program delivery instructions (PDIs), under Permanent resident program: Non-economic classes – Family class.
The PDIs updates include new or amended instructions on
- application completeness requirements
- sponsorship eligibility assessment
- co-signers
- financial requirements to sponsor (minimum necessary income)
- sponsorship bars
- offences under the Criminal Code of Canada related to paragraph 133(1)(e) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR)
- sponsorship default
- roles and responsibilities of the case processing centres and permanent residence processing offices
- referring sponsorship applications to local IRCC offices
- sponsor and co-signer withdrawal procedures
New instructions
Updated instructions
- Family class: The application process
- Family class applications: Initial review and file creation
- Admissibility and final decisions on applications under the family class
- Assessment of an application for permanent residence
- Applications under the family class: Assessing the sponsor
- Dependent children
- Applications under the family class: Final decisions on sponsor eligibility