There are people who have been waiting for 20 years for these invitations
and unfortunately they were not able to secure one so if you are among the luckier ones who got the
invitation you should not shy away from doing everything to make it a successful application
my name is Sajjad Malik and I'm a business and immigration lawyer in Oakville Ontario
the purpose of today's video is about the Canadian parents and grandparents sponsorship program
and what are the basic mistakes in in these applications a few common mistakes which people
make that they sometimes do not choose the most updated versions of application forms and they
are relying on a friend or a contact who submitted such a sponsorship application three years back
and they tell them all right I have these forms available in my computer i can email them you just
fill them out and submit no you have to take the most updated versions of I sometimes it happens
in our practice that we are working on a file and it took a few weeks or months and then just
before submission when we do our quality check we realized that one form was changed sometimes the
foreign national is abroad we have to take the effort to take the pain to get it signed once
again and upload it in the system second you have to make sure you're also signing them you're also
dating them as well i have seen applications in which whole of the application was returned
because the form submitted was neither signed not dated so you have to make sure that you
don't commit these mistakes now aside from these mistakes sometimes people forget to
upload an evidence to show relationship and they take it for granted that i have written in the
in the application that this is my relationship and i have provided that information so that is
sufficient no it's not you have to provide the evidence to the immigration authorities which
would establish that you are bona fide related to them and when there's a two-tier involved that you
are doing it for sponsoring your grandparents so you have to make sure that this is done properly
another common mistake which people make is that they do not correctly calculate the minimum
necessary income based on their family size there is certain income which you were earning but from
immigration point of view from these apparent sponsorship point of view though that income would
be excluded from uh from being counted towards the MNI (Minimum Necessary Income) so we have
seen that it occurred people believed that certain income was included and they reported that income
as an MNI (Minimum Necessary Income) and later on they got refusals based on that all right sir
seventy thousand dollars you claimed but your actual income is sixty five thousand dollars five
thousand benefit is not actually an income which would contribute to this so sometimes at a very
thin margin a few hundred or a thousand dollars less and uh because you misunderstood when you
proceeded with your application it came up that you were ineligible under that MNI requirement
another few mistakes which one can make sometimes they are unable to establish the residency
they are unable to establish their citizenship they go to some panel physician or a physician
for medical who is not uh registered with the IRCC so if you're not going to a panel physician
and you get medical done that's a common mistake and then you may suffer because of that and your
medical won't be a process there is always an option that if you are facing any issue or any
challenge you can always do a limited consultation with a lawyer if you don't want a lawyer or law
firm to be engaged in this for a whole application process then you can go to a lawyer a barrister
and a solicitor who practices immigration law and schedule a legal consultation you may have to pay
an amount for that but then it would be worth it it's also possible that you complete
your application on your own and then before submitting it you schedule a couple of hours
with a lawyer to pick up if there are any mistakes remember you don't have to mess up this invitation
this is a very precious invitation and you should do your best to make it and make it a success
someone who is sponsoring his parents or grandparents that person would be responsible
to bear the expenses of parent or grandparent 20 years so for 20 years that person is responsible
that he or she is taking care of all expenses of their parents their maintenance their
day-to-day care their dental you sign that undertaking when you're submitting
that application if there's a cosigner the cosigner also signs that application
now during this period the 20 years after they become PRs if any of the parents became a PR
claim social assistance then you are still liable for this if they claim that social assistance
during this period then the principal applicant is liable and that principal applicant will be
asked by the government to pay off the debts then later on you cannot rely on another sibling or
a brother or a sister who were there who were no who were not sponsors you cannot shift the burden
to them that look we are equally good children so they can take up you are still responsible
and you are on the hook for this I would be very happy to schedule any consultation or
if you have any questions you can post it on web on our website you can send them directly to us
and we'll be very happy to support you my contact information is noted at the end of this video and
I'll be very happy to support anyone who wishes to engage a council or lawyer in representing his
case before the immigration authorities thank you very much and have a wonderful week ahead