Maple News reports that Quebec will reopen intake for capped family sponsorship applications on July 2, 2026, for a two-year period. The province will process up to 15,700 sponsorship undertakings for permanent residence: 13,300 for spouses and 2,400 for parents or grandparents.
Adult dependent children aged 18 or older will no longer count toward the cap.
Applications received beyond the cap will be returned without processing, and fees will be refunded. The new intake period and cap were announced by the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI) in a press release. MIFI said it will prioritize older applications once intake opens.
The cap does not apply to undertakings to sponsor dependent children, orphaned minor children, or adopted children, nor to the addition of dependents to an application that already includes a family member covered by an existing undertaking. For family sponsorship, a dependent child is defined as a child under 22, not married or in a common-law relationship. Spousal sponsorship can apply to a legally married spouse, a common-law partner, or a conjugal partner.
Quebec first introduced a cap on family sponsorship applications in June 2024, and the current measure reflects a shift by exempting adult dependent children from the cap. Maple News will continue to monitor updates to Quebec’s family sponsorship rules.