Hello guys,
for those who face problems in meeting the requirements of the Sponsorship of Parents program or just simply are tired of waiting out the years of possessing times, you may consider the application for permanent residence from within Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds (H&C) for your parents instead. (Your parent should be in Canada on the time of application)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/5291ETOC.asp
I can definitely say – it works. We filed the application to sponsor our Mother back in May 2010 and after 4 years of waiting our application was refused due to the error in calculation of our income with no right to appeal....
But we did not give up and next month we filed another application for our Mother based on humanitarian and compassionate grounds (H&C) and we've won!
It looks like our timeline is one of the fastest for the H&R applications posted as it took the CIC just 11 months to finalize it.
Here it is:
Application sent on March 24 2014
AIP (1st stage approval) July 31 2014
Medicals and Police certificate request December 9 2014
Decision Made February 18 2015
Landing interview February 24 2015
It has taken exactly 11 months! Our Mom is a Permanent Resident now and we can finally relax.