Family Class – Sponsorship

If you are a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident in Canada, age 18 or older, you can sponsor some family members to become permanent residents in Canada. Once you become a permanent resident, you can live, study and work for any employer in Canada, throughout your life, and you can demand Canadian Citizenship after 5 years of permanent residence.

If you sponsor a relative to come to Canada as a permanent resident, you are responsible for financially supporting your relative when he arrives, and for a minimum period of time. All Canadians or permanent residents who become sponsors will be required to sign a commitment to provide the sponsored person with the basic financial requirements from the day they enter Canada until the end of the commitment period. The commitment term is a contract between the sponsor (s) and the Federal Government of Canada, through the IRCC (CIC), which determines that the sponsor will pay the government for any social assistance payments made to the sponsored person.

Sponsors remain bound by the commitment contract throughout the term of the contract, even when circumstances change such as: marital collapse, separation, divorce or a change in stability and financial condition.

You can sponsor your:

1) Spouse, common law partner or conjugal partner

2) Dependent child or child that you intend to adopt (must be younger than 21 years of age)

3) Parents and grandparents: father, mother, grandfather and grandmother

4) Orphan relatives: brother, sister, nephew, niece, grandson or granddaughter who are orphans, under 18 years and unmarried or in stable union

5) Other relative: the Canadian Solitary class gives the right to sponsor any family member to immigrate to Canada (the plaintiff can not have another family member living in Canada)

It is worth mentioning that for the Canadian Government a dependent child is a son or daughter who is under 21 years of age and does not have a spouse or common law partner or a son or daughter who is over 21 years of age and depends substantially on the financial support of a parent since before age 22 because of a physical or mental condition.

Schedule a Consultation with ImmiServices and get more timely information as well as up-to-date information on how to sponsor a relative.