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Application Intake Now Closed – Temporary Public Policy to Facilitate the Sponsorship of Sudanese Refugees by Groups of Five and Community Sponsors

Update from Thursday May 1st 2025 @ 1 PM EDT

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) have announced that the application intake for the Temporary Public Policy to Facilitate the Sponsorship of Sudanese Refugees by Groups of Five and Community Sponsors is now closed.

IRCC are currently reviewing applications received through the portal for completeness on a first-in, first-out basis. They will send out Acknowledgements of Receipt letters by email to the first 160 applications that are determined to be complete and accepted into processing. The public policy will expire after 160 applications have been accepted into processing.

Incomplete applications and those not accepted into processing will be returned.

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Update from April 7th 2025

Starting April 30, 2025, IRCC will accept 160 applications from Groups of Five and Community Sponsors to sponsor Sudanese refugees without a refugee status document. Please note, Sudanese refugees who do have a Refugee Status Document (RSD) may also apply under this Temporary Public Policy (TPP).

IRCC will only accept new applications from Groups of Five and Community Sponsors for Sudanese refugees. You cannot submit new Group of Five or Community Sponsor applications for other refugee populations as there is a temporary pause in effect until December 31, 2025.

Further information is available at:

Details on training sessions related to this temporary public policy can be found below.

RSTP’s past training sessions on this topic:

Webinar: ‘Ask RSTP Anything About the PR Portal – for G5/CS who are Applying Under the Temporary Public Policy for Sudanese Refugees (EN)’

English language session:

Webinar: ‘Ask RSTP Anything about Sponsoring Sudanese refugees under the Temporary Public Policy for Groups of Five and Community Sponsors’

English language session:

Arabic language session:

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Webinar: ‘Sponsoring Sudanese refugees under the Temporary Public Policy for Groups of Five and Community Sponsors’

IRCC has announced a temporary public policy that enables Groups of Five and Community Sponsors to sponsor Sudanese refugees, including refugees who do not have a refugee status document issued by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), or a foreign state, which formally recognizes the applicant as a refugee. Please note, Sudanese refugees with a Refugee Status Document (RSD) may also apply under this Temporary Public Policy (TPP)

RSTP is inviting all interested sponsorship groups to attend this training session and learn more about this temporary public policy, sponsorship application process, eligibility criteria and sponsors’ responsibilities.

The training session will cover the following:

  • The details of the temporary public policy
  • Who can sponsor under this temporary public policy
  • Who can be sponsored under this temporary public policy
  • What are sponsors’ financial and settlement responsibilities
  • How to apply

Schedule: (Please note, the information presented in each of the training sessions below is the same.)

English language session: (Recording available by request, please email sshahsiah@rstp.ca to request access) 

  • Tuesday, April 22, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT.
  • Thursday, April 17, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT.
  • Wednesday, April 16, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT.
  • Monday, April 14, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT.
  • Saturday,  April 12, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT.

Arabic language session: (Recording available by request, please email sshahsiah@rstp.ca to request access)

  • Friday, April 11, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT.