Sponsorship for parents

[Rafraf]

Hi,

I am helping my niece who will turn 18 soon to sponsor her family.

What is the best way to sponsor her parents and minor sister and brother?

If she has a property under her name

OR

If her parents have their own resident in Canada, as visitor.

If none matters, what is the best procedure to sponsor her family

 

[YVR123]

None matters. She needs a well paid job (or jobs) and file income tax for 3 years. So that she can show 3 previous NOA with income meeting the minimal income requirement (according to number of people in family, and as the info you provided 5) by IRCC.
Once she meets those requirement, then she needs to submit interest to sponsor at the beginning of the year after.
There is a limit for number of applications that will be accepted every year. Currently it's in first come first serve bases but who knows what will be the process in 4 years (if she's not working yet now, it will likely take her 4 years to achieve it). It's been changing almost every other year for the past few years.

Currently owning properties doesn't count.

 

[Rafraf]

Thank you

 

[scylla]

Agreed with the above. She does not qualify to sponsor her family at this time. She will need to wait until she has a job and meets the income requirements before she will qualify to sponsor.

 

[Rafraf]

Thank you

 

[canuck78]

How did she obtain PR or citizenship without her parents?

 

[Rafraf]

She was born here.

 

[YVR123]

Did her mom travel to Canada to give birth to her? Or was her mom a PR back then?

 

[Rafraf]

Her mother was visitng her family when she gave birth to her daughter.

 

[scylla]

She's a number of years away from potentially qualifying to sponsor her parents. There's nothing she can do now.

 

[scylla]

BTW - if she wants to qualify to sponsor her parents and two siblings, then she needs to be earning a salary of around $70K from a job in Canada and show three years of NOAs to prove she meets this requirement.

 

[canuck78]

You didn't answer my other question. About being common law and in a relationship for 7 years although your husband was only separated 4 years ago. You mentioned that you are a Canadian resident. When were you common law and did you declare the relationship when you arrived in Canada? If your common law partner arrived in Canada as a visitor but was in a common law relationship with you he needed to declare it. The timing of these things are very important.

 

[Rafraf]

You didn't answer my other question. About being common law and in a relationship for 7 years although your husband was only separated 4 years ago. You mentioned that you are a Canadian resident. When were you common law and did you declare the relationship when you arrived in Canada? If your common law partner arrived in Canada as a visitor but was in a common law relationship with you he needed to declare it. The timing of these things are very important.

My common-law partner is Canadian resident, we have been together for almost 8 years.
I used to visit her often.
Then I got separated from my ex-wife.
When our common-law relationship started my partner was back home back then.
Then we decided to settle down in Canada, so we moved to Canada, according to her wish.
I already had the visitor visa.
On the airport, I was not asked any further question about my marital status, so I had nothing to declare, like all my previous entries to Canada.
No one ever mentioned that I had to declare my relationship.
We had read all the rules and requirements, there is no such declaration.
Will this affect my application?

Thank you

 

[steaky]

Currently owning properties doesn't count.

But if she speculates properties, making capital gains and meet the low-income cutoff for the past several years, then it counts. She doesn't need to be working.

 

[YVR123]

But if she speculates properties, making capital gains and meet the low-income cutoff for the past several years, then it counts. She doesn't need to be working.

Yeah! If she makes it a business and do that consistently for 3 years. I guess in a good market, it's not hard to flip and gain 70K+ a year.
There will be a lot of tax in flipping properties tho. (so just owning wont' work. I think her parents likely will transfer their property to her name since they are foreign owners.)