Canada Family Sponsorship

Canada Family Sponsorship: The best part of Canadian immigration is, it allows immigrants to sponsor their relatives to come to Canada so that they can live with them.

Under the Canada Family Sponsorship program, your relatives (sponsored by you) can live, study, and work in Canada. You can sponsor certain relatives to Canada if you’re at least 18 years old and a:

• Canadian citizen or
• a person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act;
• permanent resident of Canada

As a permanent resident, you can sponsor your:

• spouse, partner, or dependent children
• parents and grandparents
• adopted child
• relatives

Who isn’t eligible to sponsor?

You may not be able to sponsor your relative if you:

• are in prison
• got social assistance for reasons other than being disabled
• have not paid your alimony or child support payments
• have declared bankruptcy
• are a defaulted in paying you loan EMI’s
• sponsored relative in the past and didn’t meet the terms of the sponsorship agreement

Who you can sponsor?

You may sponsor one relative, related by blood or adoption of any age. As a sponsor, you can only sponsor relatives like:

• spouse
• common-law partner
• conjugal partner
• son or daughter
• parent
• grandparent
• orphaned brother and sister, nephew or niece
• orphaned grand chid

Sponsorship Eligibility

1. Sponsor your spouse, partner, or child

If you want to sponsor your spouse, partner, or child to become a resident of Canada, then you must ensure that:

• you will support them financially
• they don’t need social assistance from the government

You can’t sponsor your spouse, partner, or child if:

• your age is less than 18 years old
• you’re not a Permanent resident or a Canadian citizen or a person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act;
• you won’t live in Canada when the persons you want to sponsor become permanent residents
• you’re a temporary resident, that is you’re visiting, studying, or working in Canada on a visa or permit
• your permanent residence application is still in the process
• you don’t have enough money to support the persons you want to sponsor

Sponsorship Requirements

There are certain requirements to meet before sponsoring your spouse, partner, or dependent children:

a) Your spouse

your spouse must be :

• legally married to you
• at least 18 years old

b) Your common-law partner

Your common-law partner:

• isn’t legally married to you
• can be either sex
• is at least 18 years old
• has been living with you for at least 12 consecutive months, meaning you’ve been living together continuously for 1 year in a conjugal relationship, without any long periods apart

c) Dependent children

Children qualify as a dependent if:

• they’re under 22 years old
• they don’t have a spouse or common-law partner

Application Fee

Spouse, Partner $1050 & Child $150

2. Sponsor your parents and grandparents

If you want to sponsor your parents and grandparents to become a resident of Canada, then you must ensure that:

• you will support them and their dependants financially
• they don’t need social assistance from the government

You may not be able to sponsor your parents and grandparents if you:

• your age is less than 18 years old
• you’re not a Permanent resident or a Canadian citizen or a person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act;
• you won’t live in Canada when the persons you want to sponsor become permanent residents
• you’re a temporary resident, that is you’re visiting, studying, or working in Canada on a visa or permit
• your permanent residence application is still in the process
• you don’t have enough money to support the persons you want to sponsor

Sponsorship Requirements

There are certain requirements to meet before sponsoring your parents and grandparents such as:

• you can sponsor your parents and grandparents only;
• can’t sponsor your spouse’s parents and grandparents;
• you can include your brother and sister if they qualify as dependent children;
• if you’re sponsoring your parents then one of them will be the primary applicant and others will be dependent;

To check more information about family sponsorship, click here

How to Sponsor?

To sponsor your parents and grandparents, the first step to sponsor is filling out the interest to sponsor form. After you successfully submitted the interest to the sponsor form, you’ll get a confirmation number. You can track your application status using this confirmation number.

This is all about Canada family sponsorship, we hope this article will help you in clearing all the doubts about the Canadian family sponsorship and takes you a step closer to your dream of settling in Canada.

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