OTTAWA—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. But Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino has given notice that the application process for 2020 is being postponed. The application process for the wildly popular program has been reworked several times in recent years following criticism and problems with the system. 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.

Source: thestar December 31, 2019 17:48 UTC