{"id":22013,"date":"2024-11-29T10:56:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/?p=22013"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T11:06:12","slug":"ircc-announcement-temporary-pause-on-intake-of-refugee-sponsorship-applications-from-groups-of-five-and-community-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/refugee-sponsorship\/latest-policy-program-update\/ircc-announcement-temporary-pause-on-intake-of-refugee-sponsorship-applications-from-groups-of-five-and-community-sponsors\/","title":{"rendered":"(IRCC Announcement) Temporary Pause on Intake of Refugee Sponsorship Applications from Groups of Five and Community Sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(IRCC Announcement &#8211; Issued November 29th, 2024)<\/p>\n<p><strong>La version fran\u00e7aise suit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Sponsors,<\/p>\n<p>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has temporarily stopped accepting new applications from <strong>Groups of Five<\/strong> and<strong> Community Sponsors<\/strong> under the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program as of\u00a0<strong>November\u00a029, 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While this measure will remain<strong> in effect until December\u00a031, 2025<\/strong>, IRCC will continue to process PSR applications already received prior to November 29, 2024 and to resettle sponsored refugees to Canada. As per the recently released Multi-year Immigration Levels Plan, in 2025, Canada aims to welcome 23,000 privately sponsored refugees.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that this measure will have a direct impact on sponsors and IRCC will be working closely with the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) and other partners to support you in adjusting to these changes. More information will be available through the RSTP in the coming weeks. In the meantime, for more information on the temporary pause, please <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanada.ca%2Fen%2Fimmigration-refugees-citizenship%2Fnews%2Fnotices%2Ftemporary-pause-intake-refugee-sponsorship-applications-groups-five-community-sponsors.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csshahsiah%40rstp.ca%7C216567825ac64347298c08dd10845a4f%7Ca5827fca282b40a69875772ff7768431%7C0%7C0%7C638684882826382367%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=6DbWVzO30DOjNgIsDBEm4g2F4nAoHPfhXBuuwz3NzZE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">visit the IRCC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you,<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Chers r\u00e9pondants,<\/p>\n<p>Immigration, R\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et Citoyennet\u00e9 Canada (IRCC) a temporairement cess\u00e9 d\u2019accepter les nouvelles demandes des groupes de cinq et des r\u00e9pondants communautaires dans le cadre du Programme de parrainage priv\u00e9 de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s (PPPR) depuis le 29\u00a0novembre\u00a02024.<\/p>\n<p>Bien que cette mesure demeurera en vigueur jusqu\u2019au 31 d\u00e9cembre 2025, IRCC continuera de traiter les demandes au PPPR qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 re\u00e7ues avant le 29 novembre 2024 et de r\u00e9installer les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s parrain\u00e9s au Canada. Conform\u00e9ment au Plan pluriannuel des niveaux d\u2019immigration r\u00e9cemment publi\u00e9, le Canada vise \u00e0 accueillir 23 000 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s parrain\u00e9s par le secteur priv\u00e9 en 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Nous comprenons que cette mesure aura une incidence directe sur les r\u00e9pondants et IRCC travaillera en \u00e9troite collaboration avec le Programme de formation sur le parrainage priv\u00e9 des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s (PFPR) et d\u2019autres partenaires pour vous aider \u00e0 vous adapter \u00e0 ces changements. De plus amples renseignements seront disponibles par le biais du PFPR au cours des prochaines semaines. Entre-temps, veuillez consulter <a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcanada.ca%2Ffr%2Fimmigration-refugies-citoyennete%2Fnouvelles%2Favis%2Fsuspension-temporaire-demandes-parrainage-refugies-presentees-groupes-cinq-repondants-communautaires.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7Csshahsiah%40rstp.ca%7C216567825ac64347298c08dd10845a4f%7Ca5827fca282b40a69875772ff7768431%7C0%7C0%7C638684882826404037%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ER%2Bsr83SWdzpkmKPLqGMt1bkwlj%2B%2F5dqx0WDlvyIOmk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">le site Web d\u2019IRCC<\/a> pour obtenir de plus amples renseignements sur la pause temporaire.<\/p>\n<p>Cordialement,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(IRCC Announcement &#8211; Issued November 29th, 2024)<br \/>\nLa version fran\u00e7aise suit.<br \/>\nDear Sponsors,<br \/>\nImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has temporarily stopped accepting new applications from Groups of Five and Community Sponsors under the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program as of\u00a0November\u00a029, 2024.<br \/>\nWhile this measure will remain in effect until December\u00a031,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"14561,22821,32646,8101,15515,13841","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/blog-images-announcements2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Yosief Araya","author_link":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/refugee-sponsorship\/latest-policy-program-update\/author\/rstp\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22820,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22013\/revisions\/22820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}