Family Class Sponsorship Bars to Sponsorship

Sponsors and co-signersthese conditions occur
cannot sponsor if:
They are permanent residentsThis includes stayed orders, departure orders, exclusion orders
subject to a removal orderand deportation orders.
Exception: People who were granted permanent residence
despite an unexecuted removal order.
They are detained in anySponsors being held in correctional or pre-trial holding facilities
penitentiary, jail, reformatory orare unlikely to be able to support their relatives.
prisonException : Persons on parole, on probation or serving a
suspended sentence. Persons held in immigration detention
centres may be ineligible because of other bars. (For example,
charged with an offence).
They are convicted of a sexualSponsors or co-signers convicted of either of these offences
offence under the Criminalwhere five years have not passed since the completion of the
sentence imposed, cannot sponsor unless:
Code [against anyone]; or
• for convictions in Canada, they have been pardoned or
an offence [against the person]
under the Criminal Codefinally acquitted;
• for convictions outside Canada, they have shown, at least
against a family member
five years after the expiry of the sentence, that they have
been rehabilitated, or there has been a final acquittal.
For the purposes of calculating the five-year period above, a
sentence includes probation, suspended sentences and
intermittent sentences. However, conditional discharges and
absolute discharges should not be considered for the purposes
of these provisions of IRPA.
They are in default of spousal orPersons in default of a court-ordered or court-registered support
child support payments orderedobligation to pay support are not eligible to sponsor. This
by a court. This includesincludes persons who are and who are not registered with the
payments ordered by a courtresponsible federal, provincial or territorial authority as being in
outside of Canada.default of family support obligations are not eligible to sponsor. A
person who is unable or unwilling to live up to current family-
related legal financial obligations is likely a poor risk for
honouring a future family related financial commitment.
Sponsors must demonstrate that they have resolved the matter
to the satisfaction of the responsible provincial or territorial
authorities before they can be eligible to sponsor.
They are in default of a debtAn immigration debt includes:
owed under the Immigration• a transportation, adjustment assistance, admissibility or
and Refugee Protection Act
Right of Permanent Residence Fee (formerly ROLF) loan;
• a deposit or guarantee of performance of an obligation;
• costs incurred to remove a foreign national.

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