| Sponsors and co-signers | these conditions occur | |
| cannot sponsor if: | ||
| They are permanent residents | This includes stayed orders, departure orders, exclusion orders | |
| subject to a removal order | and deportation orders. | |
| Exception: People who were granted permanent residence | ||
| despite an unexecuted removal order. | ||
| They are detained in any | Sponsors being held in correctional or pre-trial holding facilities | |
| penitentiary, jail, reformatory or | are unlikely to be able to support their relatives. | |
| prison | Exception : 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 sexual | Sponsors or co-signers convicted of either of these offences | |
| offence under the Criminal | where 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 Code | finally 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 or | Persons in default of a court-ordered or court-registered support | |
| child support payments ordered | obligation to pay support are not eligible to sponsor. This | |
| by a court. This includes | includes persons who are and who are not registered with the | |
| payments ordered by a court | responsible 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 debt | An 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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