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Candidates can immigrate to Canada with a sponsor visa if the applicant has a close relative or family member who holds permanent residency or Canadian Citizenship. A sponsor should be able to support the applicant or his/her family members for 3 to 10 years depending on their age and the relationship allowing them to establish themselves. While sponsoring a family member or relative, the sponsor him/herself must be settled in Canada. The financial support will continue till the main applicant has qualified for permanent residency or Canadian Citizenship.
Benefits
A sponsor visa in Canada poses no restrictions for the visa holder related to working and employment in the country. While relocating to Canada with sponsorship from a relative or family member, the applicant does not have to possess a job offer from a Canadian employer. The applicant can seek job and begin working without any restrictions. A sponsor visa acts as a route to permanent residency in Canada.
With a sponsor visa from the applicant’s family member or relative, the applicant can move and start living in Canada. A Family Class Sponsorship allows the applicant to stay in the country as a permanent resident. With financial support from his /her sponsor for 3 to 10 years, the applicant can gradually establish him/herself in the new country. After completion of 3 years as permanent resident in this country, he/she can apply for citizenship in Canada.
Canada Sponsor Visa Application
Applicants under the Canada Sponsor Visa unlike the Canada tourist visa are eligible to apply for Canada citizenship with in the country.
Canada Sponsor visa also have provision for your fiancé or spouse to immigrate with you to Canada. Canada sponsor visa holder is also permitted to bring his/her conjugal partner or common law partner to Canada. A sponsor is allowed to sponsor his/her spouse or common law partner who might be already working or living in Canada.
Canadian immigration law allows the following categories of relatives to join a sponsor in Canada:
- Dependent children, including adopted children.
- Children below 18 years of age whom the sponsor intends to adopt
- Unmarried brother, sister, nephew, niece or grandchildren who are orphans, under the age of 18 and who are not married or in a common law relationship.
- Applicants Parents or grandparents.
- Relatives of any age or relationship considering the applicant has not already sponsored a family member listed above.
Dependent children can be sponsored to relocate to Canada. According to the CIC (Citizenship and Immigration to Canada) the dependent children must be under the age of 22 and should not have a spouse or common law partner. The dependent child/children can be a full time student(s) and dependent on their parent for financial support. Physically challenged children who are dependent on their parent financially are also allowed to stay with their parents in Canada.
Eligibility Criteria
If the sponsoring individual is on a Canada Work Visa they must wait till their application has been approved and then lodge a new application for sponsoring family or relative to Canada.
As a sponsor you must suffice the maintenance funds required if you wish to sponsor a family member or a relative under the Sponsorship Visa category. If you have already sponsored a family member or relative who are now seeking permanent residence in Canada but later received assistance from the social services then you may not be allowed to sponsor any further relatives.
All sponsors must sign and undertaking agreement with the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration in all the provinces of Canada excluding Quebec. The Sponsorship Agreement also requires the applicant along with the sponsor to sign and abide by it.
If the sponsor is based in Quebec the agreement should be signed with the province minister instead of CIC. To assess the sponsor’s eligibility in Quebec an extra level of assessment must be passed.
Sponsorship Agreement
When a person is sponsoring his/her relative, spouse, partner or dependent children then both the sponsor and the person wishing to migrate to Canada have to abide to sponsorship agreement. This agreement clearly states the obligations that both the members have to follow. Both the sponsor and the sponsored relative are required to sign this agreement.
The sponsor has to agree that he/she will support his/her family member or partner for the specified number of years excluding the elderly considering they are financially self-sufficient.
For common law partner or spouse, a sponsor has to financially support him/her for at least a period of 3 years till the sponsored applicant has acquired permanent resident status.
The sponsor is also responsible to financially support his/her depending child/children (under the age of 22) or of his/her spouse or common law partner. In this case, the sponsor is required to support the dependent children for 10 years from the date they are recognized as permanent resident or until they turn 25 years.
For dependant children (below 22 years) of a sponsor or his/her spouse or common law partner needs financial support for 3 years from the day the children turn permanent residents of Canada.
If the sponsored person is not a spouse, common law partner or dependant children, then the sponsor has to financially support that person for 10 years from the day he/she turns a permanent resident.
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