{"id":32646,"date":"2025-11-23T04:32:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rstp2025.turnbull.co\/?p=32646"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:43:06","slug":"temporary-pause-on-new-group-of-five-community-sponsor-applications-under-the-private-sponsorship-of-refugees-psr-program-extended-to-december-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/refugee-sponsorship\/latest-policy-program-update\/temporary-pause-on-new-group-of-five-community-sponsor-applications-under-the-private-sponsorship-of-refugees-psr-program-extended-to-december-31-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Temporary Pause on New Group of Five &amp; Community Sponsor Applications under the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program Extended to December 31, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear sponsorship community, <strong>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)<\/strong> has extended the temporary pause on new Group of Five and Community Sponsor applications to the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program until <strong>December 31, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more details, please read the notice and instructions posted to the IRCC website today in either English or French at the links below.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/immigration-refugees-citizenship\/news\/notices\/temporary-pause-extended-refugee-sponsorship-applications-groups-five.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English Notice<\/a> <a class=\"button button--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/fr\/immigration-refugies-citoyennete\/nouvelles\/avis\/prolongation-suspension-temporaire-parrainage-personnes-refugiees-presentees-groupes-cinq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Notice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additional Details:<\/p>\n<h4><i class=\"fas fa-dot-circle\" style=\"solid\"><\/i> English &#8211; Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p1\/2025\/2025-11-22\/html\/notice-avis-eng.html#na1\">https:\/\/gazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p1\/2025\/2025-11-22\/html\/notice-avis-eng.html#na1<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><i class=\"fas fa-dot-circle\" style=\"solid\"><\/i> French &#8211; Ministere de la Citoyennet\u00e9 et de l\u2019Immigration, Loi sur l\u2019immigration et la protection des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p1\/2025\/2025-11-22\/html\/notice-avis-fra.html#na1\">https:\/\/gazette.gc.ca\/rp-pr\/p1\/2025\/2025-11-22\/html\/notice-avis-fra.html#na1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Please note, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstp.ca\/en\/bvor\/info\/\">BVOR program<\/a> is not impacted by the pause nor its extension. Groups of Five and Community Sponsors are still eligible to apply to be matched with refugees in need of resettlement under the Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) program. Please note, the BVOR program matches sponsors with refugees that are not known to them &#8211; sponsors cannot name refugees to participate in the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear sponsorship community, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has extended the temporary pause on new Group of Five and Community Sponsor applications to the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) program until December 31, 2026.<br \/>\nFor more details, please read the notice and instructions posted to the IRCC website today in either English or French at the links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33041,"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":"14566,22029,13843,13874,13832,10666","_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":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-non-classifiee"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/blog-images-Temporary-PSR-program-pause_Option1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Turnbull Co.","author_link":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/refugee-sponsorship\/latest-policy-program-update\/author\/turnbullco\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32646"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33061,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32646\/revisions\/33061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rstptemp.turnbull.co\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}