Enter the draws! You are eligible to sponsor your parents. Enter the draws if you meet the Low Income Cut-off.
There is an
exception to Canadian income rule. The following is directly from CIC. Here is the link
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/ip/ip02-eng.pdf and article 5.31 is what you are looking for. You commute to Detroit for work, but you reside in Canada and file taxes in Canada.
That's exactly the situation this exception was created for.
5.31. Exceptions to Canadian income rule
The exceptions to the Canadian income rule are as follows:
• sponsors who commute from Canada to work in the U.S.A. can use their U.S.
employment income provided it is declared as income on their Canadian income
tax return;
• sponsors living in Canada who declare income from foreign sources on their
Canadian tax returns, can use this foreign income to meet the financial
requirements for sponsorship
Again, enter the draw! Here is the CIC link again. For those of you who are in the same situation, please
read the PDF from CIC - article 5.31!
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/ip/ip02-eng.pdf