Sponsorship Application for Canada Family class applications like sponsorship applications are geared towards reuniting family members around the world. When completing your sponsorship application, there are a number of things you should know on how to complete your application. [...]

Can I File Family Class Sponsorship Application Myself? Family Class Sponsorship Application The Family Class Sponsorship Application is the second most popular for immigrating to Canada after the Federal Skilled Worker program. In 2012, 50000 people migrated to Canada [...]

Do You Want to Sponsor Your Family Members? There are many ways to immigrate to Canada, and it depends on you what application you wish to apply for immigration. Federal Skilled Worker program The Federal Skilled [...]

Financial Responsibility when Sponsoring The financial test is needed to prove that sponsors can support sponsored persons for the period of the undertaking. Financial Resources: May include the resources of the sponsor's spouse or common-law [...]

Family Class Minimum Necessary Income The sponsor's income must meet the minimum necessary income requirement, as identified annually by Statistics Canada in LICO levels, to support all members of a sponsor's own family and all sponsored persons and their family members, including [...]

Responsibility of Sponsors In the case of applications for permanent residence from foreign nationals who are spouses, common-law partners, conjugal partners and dependent children, (including children already adopted): As a Sponsors You Must: Complete the [...]

Family Class Residency Requirements for Sponsors Residency Requirements In assessing residency requirements for sponsorship purposes a sponsor must maintain a significant connection to Canada. Officers Will Consider Whether You: Maintained a residence in Canada, Have [...]

Family Class Sponsorship Agreement Sponsorship Agreement The Sponsorship Agreement is a written contract in which sponsors and applicants make promises to each other. The sponsor submits a completed, signed Sponsorship Agreement with the sponsorship application. The agreement does not need to [...]

Family Class Sponsorship The Financial Test The financial test is needed to prove that sponsors can support their relatives for the period of the undertaking. Sponsors in Quebec are subject to that province's financial criteria. Sponsors must show they have the minimum necessary income (LICO) [...]

Who Can you Sponsor under Family Class? Members of the Family Class Include: spouse, common-law or conjugal partner; dependent child (no matter which parent is supporting the child, and also including children adopted overseas); father or mother; grandfather [...]

Family Class Sponsorship Calculating Required Income The total number of persons determines the amount of income required to sponsor and determines which LICO to use. Sponsors should count: Themselves, and any family members to whom they [...]

Family Class Sponsorship Bars to Sponsorship Sponsors and co-signers cannot sponsor if these conditions occur This includes stayed orders, departure orders, exclusion orders and deportation orders. Exception: People who were granted permanent residence despite an unexecuted removal [...]