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Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada may be able to sponsor family members to immigrate to Canada as sponsored family members and become Permanent Residents of Canada.

If requirements of the sponsorship process are satisfied, Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada may sponsor the following categories of family members:

• Spouse of opposite sex or same sex (and dependent children of the spouse)
• Common-law partner of opposite sex or same sex (and dependent children of the common-law partner)
• Conjugal Partner of opposite sex or same sex (and dependent children of the conjugal partner)
• Dependent Children
• Adopted Children
• Parents (and their dependent children)
• Grandparents
• Orphaned relatives under 18 years of age and not married or in a common-law relationship, such as: brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, granddaughters or grandsons
• Another relative, if a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada has no living spouse or common-law partner, conjugal partner, a son or daughter, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece who could be sponsored as a member of the family class, and has no relative who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident or registered as an Indian under the Indian Act