Canada Family Immigration

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Canada Family Immigration

• Family Immigration for Canada or Family Visa by a
  sponsor in Canada is another category of Canada
  PR Visa. Applicants who are Canadian nationals or
  permanent residents can sponsor their
  husband/wife, conjugal partner, common-law
  partner, dependent child (including adopted
  child) or other eligible relative (such as parent
  or grandparent) to become a Canadian permanent
  resident.

Overview Sponsoring your family
Applicants who are Canadian nationals or
permanent residents can sponsor their
husband/wife, conjugal partner, common-law
partner, dependent child (including adopted
child) or other eligible relative (such as parent
or grandparent) to become Canadian permanent
resident.
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There are two processes for sponsoring a family

• Family visas are among the most widely used
  categories, with over 65,000 family visas issued
  in 2008. Relatives being sponsored under the
  family visa category do not need to undergo a
  points-based assessment.
• To be eligible to sponsor, the Canadian citizens
  or residents should be over the age of 18, should
  be living in Canada and should be willing to
  sponsor/support their spouse or relatives for a
  period of 3 to 10 years. The sponsors are also
  responsible for supporting their relatives
  financially when they arrives and should ensure
  their spouse or relative do not seek financial
  assistance from the government.

• Spouse, common-law partner and/or dependent
  children.
• Eligible relatives.

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Spouse, common-law partner and/or dependent
children

• Canadian citizens or residents can bring into
  Canada as permanent residents their spouse,
  common-law partner or conjugal partner, or
  dependent children. The spouse, partner or
  dependent children could be outside Canada, when
  the application is made or could be living in
  Canada.
• Both the sponsor and the relative are expected to
  meet certain requirements. It is the sponsors
  responsibility to support them financially in
  Canada and do not need to seek monetary
  assistance from the government.
• The sponsor should meet certain income
  requirements. If the applicant earlier sponsored
  relatives to come to Canada and they have later
  on turned for monetary assistance to the
  government, then the applicant may not be
  permitted to sponsor one more person.

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Eligibility Criteria for a Sponsor

• The sponsor should be a Canadian Citizen or
  resident and should be over 18 years of age
• A sponsorship agreement should be signed between
  the sponsor and his/her sponsored relative to
  commit to providing financial support, if needed.
  This agreement also states that the person after
  becoming a permanent resident will make every
  effort to support him/herself.
• Sponsor needs to provide financial support to a
  spouse, common-law for 3 years from the time they
  become a permanent resident.
• Sponsor needs to provide financial support to a
  dependent child for 10 years, or until the child
  turns 25.
• If the sponsor resides in Quebec, then he/she
  need to meet Quebecs immigration sponsorship
  requirement, after Citizenship and Immigration
  Canada (CIC) accepts you as a sponsor.

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Eligibility Criteria for Spouse

•     A person can migrate as a spouse if he/she is
  married to their sponsor and the marriage is
  officially valid.
• If a person has married in Canada, they should
  provide a marriage certificate issued by the
  province where the marriage took place.
• If a person has married outside Canada, then the
  marriage must be valid under the law of the
  country where it occurred and under Canadian law.
  Marriages that happen in an embassy or consulate
  should be in accordance with the law of the
  country where it took place, not the country of
  citizenship of the embassy or consulate.

Sponsoring same-sex partner as a spouse
Canadian citizens and residents can apply to
sponsor their same-sex partner as a spouse, if
they were married in Canada and issued a marriage
certificate by a Canadian province on or after
the below dates mentioned
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• British Columbia (on or after July 8, 2003)
• Manitoba (on or after September 16, 2004)
• New Brunswick (on or after July 4, 2005)
• Newfoundland and Labrador (on or after December
  21, 2004)
• Nova Scotia (on or after September 24, 2004)
• Ontario (on or after June 10, 2003)
• Quebec (on or after March 19, 2004)
• Saskatchewan (on or after November 5, 2004)
• Yukon (on or after July 14, 2004)
• All other provinces or territories (on or after
  July 20, 2005).

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• If the applicant has married outside Canada,
  he/she may apply to sponsor their same-sex
  partner as a spouse provided that the marriage is
  lawfully accepted according to both the law of
  the place where the marriage happened and under
  Canadian law.

Common-law partner
Canadian citizens and permanent residents living
in Canada can sponsor their common-law partner
and eligible dependent children. Applicants who
have been residing with their qualifying Canadian
partners for a period of 1 year or more in an
ongoing relationship can be sponsored under this
visa. They need to prove that they are in a
genuine and continuing relationship and should
have resided together at a common address. The
sponsor and the partner should intend to live
together in Canada and an undertaking should be
given by the sponsor to provide for all of the
applicant's basic needs for a period of 3 years
from the partner's arrival to Canada.
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Conjugal partner

• Applicants who have been maintaining an ongoing
  relationship with their Canadian partner, but
  have been unable to reside together at a common
  address with their Canadian partner for a period
  of at least 1 year, because of exceptional
  situations beyond their control, can be sponsored
  under this visa.

A person may apply as a conjugal partner if

• He/she has maintained a conjugal relationship
  with their sponsor for a minimum of one year and
  has been hindered from staying together or
  marrying because of

• An immigration barrier
• His/her marital status (for example, he/she is
  married to someone else and residing in a country
  where divorce is impossible) or
• His/her sexual orientation (for example, he/she
  are in a same-sex relationship and same-sex
  marriage is not granted where they live)

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• He/she can provide proofs that there were reasons
  they could not stay together (for example, he/she
  was refused long-term living in each others
  country).

The Canadian sponsor must sign an undertaking to
provide for the partner's basic needs for the
duration of 3 years from the partner's arrival to
Canada.
A person cannot apply as a conjugal partner if

• He/she could have stayed together but chose not
  to. This demonstrates they did not have the level
  of commitment that is needed for a conjugal
  relationship. (For example, one among both may
  not have wanted to give up an employment or
  study, or his/her relationship was not yet at the
  point where they are ready to live together.)
• He/she could not provide proofs that there was a
  reason that kept away him/her from living
  together.

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• He/she is engaged to be married. In this case,
  he/she should either apply as a spouse once the
  marriage has occurred or apply as a common-law
  partner if he/she has stayed together
  continuously for a minimum of 12 months.

Dependent children
Canadian citizens and permanent residents living
in Canada can apply to sponsor their or their
partner's dependent or adopted children. A son or
daughter is dependent when the child

• Is below the age of 22 and does not have a spouse
  or common-law partner
• Is a full-time student and is considerably
  dependent on a parent for financial support since
  before the age of 22 or
• Is financially dependent on a parent since before
  the age of 22 because of a mental or physical
  disability

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Relationships not eligible for the family visa

• An applicant would not be eligible to be
  sponsored as a spouse, a common-law partner or a
  conjugal partner if

• He/she is under 16 years of age
• He/she or the sponsor was married to someone else
  at the time of their marriage
• He/she has stayed apart from the sponsor for a
  minimum of 1 year and either of them are the
  common-law or conjugal partner of another person
• The sponsor has migrated to Canada and, at the
  time permanent residency was applied for, he/she
  was a family member who should have been assessed
  on their eligibility of the immigration
  requirements, but were not assessed or
• The sponsor earlier funded another spouse,
  common-law partner or conjugal partner, and 3
  years have not passed since that individual
  became a Canadian permanent resident.

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Other Eligible Relatives

• If applicant sponsors group of people like spouse
  and dependent children then all the applications
  for permanent residency must be filed at the same
  time. The application for sponsorship and
  permanent residency must be filed together.
• If the applicant does not qualify to
  sponsor/support their spouse, common-law partner
  or dependent child in the Family Class, their
  partner/dependent may apply to stay in Canada on
  humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

A permanent resident or a citizen of Canada can
sponsor certain relatives such as parents and
grandparents under the family class program. Both
the sponsor and the relative wishing to migrate
to Canada must satisfy certain requirements.
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A Canadian resident can sponsor

• Parents
• Grandparents
• Brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces,
  granddaughters or grandsons who are orphaned,
  under 18 years of age and not married or in a
  common-law relationship
• Children adopted outside of Canada or intended to
  be adopted in Canada
• Any other family member can be sponsored
  regardless of age, if there is no spouse,
  common-law or conjugal partner, son, daughter,
  mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather,
  grandmother, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew who is
  a Canadian citizen, registered Indian or
  permanent resident or whom you may sponsor.
• Accompanying relatives such as spouse, partner
  and dependent children.

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Parental and Grandparental

• Relatives over the age of 18, such as brothers
  and sisters or adult independent children are not
  eligible and hence cannot be sponsored. However,
  if they qualify to migrate under the Skilled
  Worker Class, they may gain additional points for
  adaptability for having a relative in Canada.

Parents and grandparents can be sponsored under
this visa category, by proving their relationship
with the sponsor. The sponsor should be willing
to live in Canada with the applicant(s) and must
be capable of supporting them financially without
accessing public funds. The sponsor should meet
the required income levels so as to support the
applicants coming into Canada. The sponsor has to
sign an undertaking to provide for all of the
applicants basic needs for the duration of 10
years from the date the applicant arrives in
Canada.
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Relatives

• Canadian citizens and permanent residents living
  in Canada can sponsor one relative regardless of
  age or relationship, if the Canadian sponsor does
  not have any relatives who are Canadian citizens
  or permanent residents or any other relative who
  may be sponsored under the family category.
• The Canadian sponsor must provide evidence of
  sufficient income and must also sign an
  undertaking to provide for all of the applicant's
  needs for a specified period of time.

Benefits
Sponsored family members and relatives granted
permanent residence under the Family Class will
have the right to live, work and study in Canada
indefinitely.It is not a points-based category,
but both the sponsor and the relative are
expected to meet certain requirements.
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Sponsorship Agreement

• Permanent residents have access to
  government-funded healthcare, subsidized
  education and other social care benefits such as
  Canada Pension Plan Benefits, Old Age Security
  and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
• After three years stay in the country, the
  applicant can apply for Canadian citizenship.

A sponsorship agreement outlines the conditions
for both the sponsor and the family member who is
immigrating to Canada. The sponsor must accept to
support his/her relative or dependent for an
agreed duration of time without them receiving
any social assistance. The individual being
sponsored must ensure that they support
themselves, except in cases where the relative is
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Visa Fee

• 1.The processing fee which must be included with
  your application

Processing Fee Amount per person
Sponsor  75
Principal applicant  475
Principal applicant under 22 years of age and a dependent child of the sponsor, a child to be adopted or an orphaned family member that is neither married nor in a common-law relationship.  75
Family member 22 years or older, or who is married, engaged or in a common-law relationship, regardless of age 550
Family member who is under 22 years and who is not married, engaged or in a common-law relationship 150
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• 2.The Right of Permanent Residence Fee, which
  will be requested by the Visa Office at a later
  stage if your application is approved.

Right of Permanent Residence Fee Amount per person
Principal applicant  490
Spouse or common-law partner 490
Additional fees
You must also pay for the following for yourself
and your family members (if applicable) Medical
examinations Police certificates Language
assessments Disclaimer Visa fees are subjected
to change without prior notice
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