No new sponsorship applications before June 30, 2018
Due to the high number of undertaking applications received and still being processed, the Ministère has decided to extend the suspension in the intake of new sponsorship applications until June 30, 2018.
This suspension affects refugees of all origins and pertains to all new applications, whether they are presented by organizations or groups of 2 to 5 people, or involve joint sponsorship.
While respecting the yearly targets for admission, the arrival of people whose files are still being processed will likely extend up until 2020.
Currently, the files of some 13 800 sponsored refugees are still being processed.
The 2018 immigration plan, tabled in the National Assembly in October 2017, sets the admission of sponsored refugees at between 4050 and 4400. Given these inventories, the arrival of some 13 800 people whose files are still being processed will likely extend up until 2020.