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Family Sponsorship

Canadian Family Sponsorship Program.

If you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada at the age of 18 or older, you can sponsor certain family members to become permanent residents of Canada. You can live, study and work in Canada if you become a permanent resident. When you sponsor a relative to become a permanent resident of Canada, you must meet following requirements:

• One must comply with the income guidelines
• And, you must agree in writing to provide financial support to your relative and any other eligible relatives who come with them from the date they become a permanent resident and for a period of up to 20 years (depending on their age and how you are related)

 
Who you can sponsor
 

• Spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner
• Dependent child (or child you plan to adopt): must be 21 and younger
• Parents and Grandparents: father, mother, grandfather or grandmother
• Orphaned Relatives: brother, sister, nephew, niece, grandson or granddaughter, who are orphaned, under the age of 18, and not married or in a common-law relationship
• Other relative: *only Lonely Canadians are eligible to sponsor (have no other family living in Canada)

Basic requirements To be a sponsor:
 

• You must be 18 years of age or older
• You and the sponsored relative must sign a sponsorship agreement that commits you to provide financial support for your relative, if necessary. This agreement also says the person becoming a permanent resident will make every effort to support her or himself
• You must provide financial support for a spouse, common-law or conjugal partner for three years from the date they become a permanent resident
• You must provide financial support for a dependent child for 10 years, or until the child turns 25, whichever comes first