Family Class Sponsorship: Tyring to bring in my brother and his family

[ssaleem]

Hello,

I am a Canadian resident for the past few years. I want to sponsor my brother who is married and have kids. I read through the sponsorship application package  and it said that I can only sponsor my brothers who are under the the age of 22 or over 22 if he is financially dependant on my parents. Either is not the case in his situation.My brother is over the age and runs a business in Pakistan. How can I sponsor him? He can not qualify on skilled class or other programs.

Your help in this regards will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
SS

[PMM]

Hi

Hello,

I am a Canadian resident for the past few years. I want to sponsor my brother who is married and have kids. I read through the sponsorship application package  and it said that I can only sponsor my brothers who are under the the age of 22 or over 22 if he is financially dependant on my parents. Either is not the case in his situation.My brother is over the age and runs a business in Pakistan. How can I sponsor him? He can not qualify on skilled class or other programs.

Your help in this regards will be highly appreciated.

Regards,
SS

You can't unless you are single, never married, have no children, your parents and grandparents are deceased, you don't have an Aunt/Uncle/Brother/Sister/Niece/Nephew in Canada.  There are some programs in Alberta/Manitoba/Sask for siblings, but you would have to be residing in those provinces.  If you are see their PNP.

PMM

[Leon]

You can't unless you are single, never married, have no children, your parents and grandparents are deceased, you don't have an Aunt/Uncle/Brother/Sister/Niece/Nephew in Canada.

And the brother would also have to be single and have no children.  This is the clause in the federal family sponsorship program that says you can sponsor 'one other' relative if you have no family in Canada and no family elsewhere that you could sponsor.  I looked into it with my brother and I was told that because our parents are alive, even though they are not interested in immigrating, that I could not sponsor my brother and even if our parents were dead, I still couldn't sponsor him under the federal system because he is married.

Under the provincial nominee programs, if you are living in AB, SK or MB, you could sponsor your brother and his family through the provincial program family stream as long as you and they meet other requirements, financially etc.

[PMM]

Hi

You can't unless you are single, never married, have no children, your parents and grandparents are deceased, you don't have an Aunt/Uncle/Brother/Sister/Niece/Nephew in Canada.

And the brother would also have to be single and have no children.  This is the clause in the federal family sponsorship program that says you can sponsor 'one other' relative if you have no family in Canada and no family elsewhere that you could sponsor.  I looked into it with my brother and I was told that because our parents are alive, even though they are not interested in immigrating, that I could not sponsor my brother and even if our parents were dead, I still couldn't sponsor him under the federal system because he is married.

Under the provincial nominee programs, if you are living in AB, SK or MB, you could sponsor your brother and his family through the provincial program family stream as long as you and they meet other requirements, financially etc.

The above statement is wrong.  From www.cic.gc.ca

Who can be sponsored

You 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
    * another relative of any age or relationship if none of the above relatives could be sponsored, and you have no other relatives who are Canadian citizens, persons registered as Indians under the Indian Act or permanent residents and
    * accompanying relatives of the above (for example, spouse, partner and dependent children).



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[Leon]

So goes to show how useless the CIC call centre is.  When I asked about this a couple of years ago, they explicitly told me that I would not be able to sponsor my brother unless he was single and childless.