Family Sponsorship Opportunities
If you are interested in Family Sponsorship and are a Canadian citizen or currently a permanent resident of Canada (18 years or older), you are able to sponsor certain family to move to Canada and become permanent residents. If one does become a permanent resident, you can work, live, and study in Canada. When sponsoring a family member to move to Canada you become responsible for supporting them financially when they arrive.
Family members you can sponsor include:
- Your spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner
- Your parents or grandparents
- Any dependent children or child you plan to adopt (Must be at least 21 years old or younger)
- Orphaned family relatives who are under the age of 18
- And other relatives who qualify as Lonely Canadians (Have no other family currently living in Canada)
Requirements to be a family sponsor:
- You must be at least 18 years or older
- You and the family relative you sponsor must sign a sponsorship agreement. This agreement commits that you will provide financial support for your relative if needed. In addition, this agreement also says that the sponsored relative will make every possible effort to support themselves financially
- Upon becoming a permanent resident, you must financially support your spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner for a minimum of three years
- For a sponsored child, you must provide financial support for a minimum of 10 years, or until the child turns 25 of age
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Obligations When Providing Sponsorship
Family sponsors are required to provide the sponsored family member all basic living requirements from the first day they enter the country of Canada. This goes on until the term ends. This undertaking contract is between the sponsor and the IRCC, indicating the sponsor will repay the Canadian government any social assistance that is used with the sponsored family member. This contract must be forced regardless of any change in circumstances.
For a spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner, they are required to sign an undertaking indicating they are to repay the federal or provincial Canadian government from when they become a permanent resident for the duration of three years. For children under the age of 19, it is until 10 years have passed or when the child reaches 25 years of age. If the child is over 19 years of age, it is for a period of three years.
For parents or grandparents, the obligation of sponsorship extends for a total time of twenty years from when they become a permanent resident. For all other family members it is ten years.
Sponsors That Are Living Outside of Canada
Canadians that are at the time located outside of Canada can still sponsor family members including spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, or dependent children if they currently do not have dependent children of their own, have no convictions of bodily harm, and are able to be in Canada when the family member lands.
Family Sponsorship in the Province of Quebec
Sponsors can sponsor a close relative who has no bodily harm convictions against them if you are a Canadian citizen or residing in Quebec and are at least 18 or older.
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