Can we sponsor our family in Canada? and what are the reqs for that?
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so, in today's video I want to talk with you about family sponsorship in Canada
Many people ask if we can sponsor someone (brother, sister etc) or can get sponsored
so, today we will talk about that
In this, there are several criteria's in which you can be sponsor and whom all you can sponsor
whether you can sponsor someone or not
this has several requirements
1st, you should either be a Canadian permanent resident or citizen
2nd, you should be 18 years plus in age
In this government also checks if you owe any money to the province or government due to any previous sponsorships that you might have been involved in
check if you meet income criteria or not
What I have seen in my research in 2020 if you want to sponsor 2 people then the income req is $32000 and plus
then for 7 people, it is approx $69000 and plus
all this is available on the CIC website
You and your sponsored application have to sign a sponsorship agreement
that states your sponsored applicant will be dependent on you if they require any support like financial etc..
also, the sponsored applicant has to specify in the agreement that will take proper efforts to support themselves and not just rely on you
there are some points that stop you from qualifying
like, if you have a criminal history or filed bankruptcy in the past and not yet been released from it
Also if you have used social assistance apart from disability
Now, let's talk about whom you can sponsor
1st, talk about siblings
if you want to sponsor your brother or sister
and the sibling should be below 18 years of age
and both the parents have passed away
In that scenario you can sponsor them
You can sponsor your parents, grandparent, spouse, dependent children
for parents, if you sponsor your mother as principal application then father will be added as dependent and vice versa
In 2017, there has been an update for dependent children
if there are under 22 years of age then can be considered as dependent children
if there are dependent children then can be added to the application as well
When applying for this, whenever you are sponsoring the application and when the applicant is filing for PR both should be done at the same time
Also, if you want to sponsor any of your relative there are certain criterias to qualify
if you do not have a living relative like parents etc who needs sponsorship
or you do not have a Canadian citizen or permanent resident relative then you should be able to sponsor your relative
again, there are some other requirements that you will need to meet to proceed for this
you can check them on CIC website or you can get in touch with a licensed immigration consultant to learn more about this
now, let's talk about the fact if you are not qualifying to become a sponsor for your sibling
so what are the other ways you can consider
1st, they can apply in the humanitarian and compassionate grounds again there are certain scenarios they will need to present to justify why they are applying on H&C grounds
2nd, they can check express entry or another category where they can qualify themselves to apply for PR as a principal applicant
3rd, study permit can also be something that can be considered
where you can support them to study in Canada and later they qualify and apply for PR
last option can be a business work permit
I will provide a link for my old video where I have talked about work permit under IMP C11 category so you can check it out to learn more
so these are some of the way that can be considered
some points in the process are straight forward that you can read on CIC website
these are some of the points i wanted to share in today's video. I hope it helps you or your known ones