sponsorship for nephew

[Sanela Maric]

I believed that you can sponsor your family member to come and live in Canada and I was very disappointed when I realized that because I do have a husband and son, I cannot do it.

I have a very hard time understanding this rule about sponsorship. Why would Canada not allow people to bring their families here? My nephew have high education with perfect English and I have all means to sponsor him.

Does anyone have any advice for me? is there any other options?

Thank you,
Sanela

 

[kcward7]

I believed that you can sponsor your family member to come and live in Canada and I was very disappointed when I realized that because I do have a husband and son, I cannot do it.

I have a very hard time understanding this rule about sponsorship. Why would Canada not allow people to bring their families here? My nephew have high education with perfect English and I have all means to sponsor him.

Does anyone have any advice for me? is there any other options?

Thank you,
Sanela

It's the lonely Canadian rule. Canada does allow you to bring immediate family - spouses and dependents and they are one of the only countries with a parent/grandparent program. This does not extend to extended family.

Your nephew will need to immigrate independently.

 

[canuck78]

You can help bring your nephew here but as an international student. If everyone could sponsor nieces and nephews many families would sponsor all the children in their family if they come from a country where education and medical care is not provided. Someone has to pay for these services so it would not be possible to sponsor all these children without their parents. That would also likely create more demand for subsidized housing for larger families and demand on various social services agencies.

Many other countries don't allow you to bring extended family.
In some cases it could take 10+ years to bring family members in the US and they won't qualify for things like healthcare. Australia is often compared to Canada when it comes to immigration and they don't allow sponsorship of extended family and has much more limited sponsorship of parents and applicants must often pay a large fee.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

I believed that you can sponsor your family member to come and live in Canada and I was very disappointed when I realized that because I do have a husband and son, I cannot do it.

I have a very hard time understanding this rule about sponsorship. Why would Canada not allow people to bring their families here? My nephew have high education with perfect English and I have all means to sponsor him.

Does anyone have any advice for me? is there any other options?

Thank you,
Sanela

Canada does allow people to bring their family members. However, there has to be a cutoff and that is immediate family. Otherwise, a person could sponsor dozens of family members and each of them could sponsor etc.

If your nephew has a high education and perfect English, he is perfectly capable of qualifying to immigrate himself.

 

[Sanela Maric]

Thank you all for your replies, I myself immigrated to Canada 25 years ago as refugee form the Bosnian war. I'm very thankful for Canadian Government to give me and my husband chance to build our lives here. And we sure did and we love it here. My nephew lives in Denmark and despite his education, he still have a trouble finding a job. It is so sad, as most of kids here including my son who is graduating university this year have a little or no trouble finding a job for them self.
I will advise him to apply for immigration himself.
Regards,
Sanela

 

[canuck78]

Thank you all for your replies, I myself immigrated to Canada 25 years ago as refugee form the Bosnian war. I'm very thankful for Canadian Government to give me and my husband chance to build our lives here. And we sure did and we love it here. My nephew lives in Denmark and despite his education, he still have a trouble finding a job. It is so sad, as most of kids here including my son who is graduating university this year have a little or no trouble finding a job for them self.
I will advise him to apply for immigration himself.
Regards,
Sanela

Unfortunately their are plenty of Canadian young people having trouble getting into good and stable employment. Your nephew should look at his job prospects around Europe and in Canada. Young people in many European struggle to get jobs but Denmark is not known as one of them. He may not find that his opportunities are better here.