Am I eligible to sponser my husband and our son?

[ikun]

Hello,
I am wondering if I will be eligible to sponser for parmanent residency visa for my husband and our son without being employed.
I became pemanent resident in 2009 and went back to Japan for a few years and got married with a Japanese husband and had a baby.
In Feb 2015, we all got into Canada. I have a PR card and my husband has a working holiday visa and my son has a visitor visa.
Now we have gathered documents to apply for PR but are realized that my husband's police certifitate will be expired on the 30 of September.
According to CIC, a police certificate must be valid and so I wonder if I should send it with application forms even I don't have a job right now.(I am going to start working from 21 of September).
If I decided to apply for their visa, I think I should show CIC how I will support my family financially. I can provide my bank account status or do I need to send anything else?
Could you please give me any ideas what kind of supporting document will be helpful my assesment?
Please help me.

Thank you!

 

[DanSlh]

There's no minimun income for spousal sponsorship. All you have to do is explain how you're planning to support yourselves.
My case, for example, my wife (sponsor) was unnemployed at the time because she was finishing her nurse school, so we sent a letter exaplaining that she would be finishing her course at july and letters from her parents saying that they would help in any case.
All went fine.

 

[ikun]

Hello,
DanSIL
Thank you so much for your response! It is good to know and nice to hear from someone has done the same.
Thanks!!!!

 

[floomy]

1. you do not need a job to apply for sponsorship.

2. if your husband's police certificate would be expired in a month, it might be chance that VO (visa office ) would request new one when they process your application. so I would send application before any docs expired.

3. it would be also helpful, if you would explain that you would have new job on xx.xx.2015 and how you would support your husband and son till they get their pr and your future plan etc.

4. when your husband and son apply for visitor visa (or renewal), you would need to provide financial support ( a letter from work, bank balance etc)

hope it helps.

p.s there might be thread for sponsorship for japanese spouse in the forum.
you would find more info .

 

[Rob_TO]

I became pemanent resident in 2009 and went back to Japan for a few years and got married with a Japanese husband and had a baby.
In Feb 2015, we all got into Canada. I have a PR card and my husband has a working holiday visa and my son has a visitor visa.

Did you stay in Japan from 2009 to 2015? Didn't your PR card expire? And how did you get back into Canada if you didn't meet residency obligation of spending 2 of every 5 years in Canada?

You must be in compliance with the residency obligation if you want to sponsor your family. So you need to clarify this first.

 

[Aquakitty]

Did you stay in Japan from 2009 to 2015? Didn't your PR card expire? And how did you get back into Canada if you didn't meet residency obligation of spending 2 of every 5 years in Canada?

You must be in compliance with the residency obligation if you want to sponsor your family. So you need to clarify this first.

Yea this is odd, if she met the requirements she could be a citizen by now. So why still a PR.

 

[keesio]

Yea this is odd, if she met the requirements she could be a citizen by now. So why still a PR.

Perhaps she wanted to keep her Japanese citizenship. From what I understand, Japan does not easily allow dual citizenship with another country.

 

[screech339]

Did you stay in Japan from 2009 to 2015? Didn't your PR card expire? And how did you get back into Canada if you didn't meet residency obligation of spending 2 of every 5 years in Canada?

You must be in compliance with the residency obligation if you want to sponsor your family. So you need to clarify this first.

This is one of the reasons, I want CBSA to have tighter control over PR residency requirements. Too many PR who failed their PR RO managed to get back into Canada. This needs to be addressed.

 

[scylla]

Make sure you meet the residency requirement (living in Canada for 2 out of the last 5 years) before you submit the application to sponsor your husband and son. If you submit the application too early, the application will be refused and you can expect CIC to revoke your PR status.

 

[ikun]

Hello Floomy,
Thank you for the info! It is really helpful, especialy about No4, I wasn't really thinking to attach a letter for their application for Visitor visa. I will definetaly enclose a letter.

Thank you for telling me that I need to make sure about my PR status.
I left for Japan after I lived in Canada for more than two years(Clear the RO)but when I was in Japan, my PR card expired so I had to apply for a travel document to enter Canada.
I came back here as a PR no problem but I was told to renew my PR as soon as I could at the border which I did. It was very conplecated and had to attend an interview at CIC office.
Anyways,thanks for all.
Ps. I can't have two citizenship unless Japanese goverment allow me to.

 

[Officer]

This is one of the reasons, I want CBSA to have tighter control over PR residency requirements. Too many PR who failed their PR RO managed to get back into Canada. This needs to be addressed.

I absolutely agree with you screech339... there must be controls over CBSA to apply residency obligation on PR holder..

 

[canadianwoman]

It doesn't sound like she has met her residency obligations. Staying two years after getting PR, then leaving in 2009, then returning in 2015 would not meet them. The two years out of five years is continuous - meaning in the last five years, you must have spent two years in Canada to meet the residency obligations. And this continues every year, so for example in 2016 you must have spent two years of the five years before the date in 2016 in Canada, etc.
The government can allow people to come back in, as they have done here, but the residency requirements will still have to be met from the date of reentry onwards.

 

[Rob_TO]

It doesn't sound like she has met her residency obligations. Staying two years after getting PR, then leaving in 2009, then returning in 2015 would not meet them. The two years out of five years is continuous - meaning in the last five years, you must have spent two years in Canada to meet the residency obligations. And this continues every year, so for example in 2016 you must have spent two years of the five years before the date in 2016 in Canada, etc.
The government can allow people to come back in, as they have done here, but the residency requirements will still have to be met from the date of reentry onwards.

If she got a PR travel document, that effectively overcomes any RO issue and would allow you to then apply for renewal of PR card. They are supposed to do the RO investigation during the PR travel doc process, and at that time determine if any H&C factors. Plus she said she was able to renew her PR card which again would have involved a RO check. So RO may not be an issue here.

However I'm a bit confused as to the exact timing here, so OP should give some more details on what dates she actually lived in Canada and Japan, and at what date she got the PR travel doc and renewed PR card.