can I sponsor my aunt?
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You can’t sponsor your aunt. You would need to hire her as a caregiver and then she applies to the HCCP program. The process is long.
All the information to hire a caregiver is in the link. First, you need to show that you could not hire a caregiver in Canada. So you need to post the job locally in your area. The position must be full-time and meet the median wage in your area. So estimated $16-17 per hour plus benefits. Probably more since your child has ASD. This is a salary of about $30-35k per year depending on where you live and duties. You need to show that you meet LICO and then add the salary. So you want a household income over $100k to show that you can afford a nanny. You set up a business registration for payroll. Once approved, she can apply to work through the HCCP program
https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/foreign-workers/caregiver.html
For the HCCP, she must take IELTS and get her education assessed. She needs at least a year of university or college education.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/caregivers/child-care-home-support-worker.html
Or she immigrates to Canada on her own merits based on her education, age, Language and skilled work experience.
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thank you for your reply
nut what about this I found on the immigration Canada website
Examples of who you can sponsor
See the examples below to better understand who you can sponsor.
Example 1: Eligible to sponsor an aunt
Veronica doesn’t have a spouse or a common-law partner. She has no children, and lives in Canada as a permanent resident. Her parents and grandparents have all passed away and she doesn’t have any relatives in Canada who are Canadian citizens, permanent residents or registered Indians. Veronica would like to sponsor her aunt Betty, who she is very close with. Her aunt Betty is married and has a daughter.
Veronica meets the requirements to sponsor her aunt because she doesn’t have:
Betty’s daughter can be included on the application only if she qualifies as a dependent child. If her daughter is older than the age limit or she doesn’t meet all the requirements, she can’t be added to Betty’s application and will have to immigrate to Canada on her own.
nut what about this I found on the immigration Canada website
Examples of who you can sponsor
See the examples below to better understand who you can sponsor.
Example 1: Eligible to sponsor an aunt
Veronica doesn’t have a spouse or a common-law partner. She has no children, and lives in Canada as a permanent resident. Her parents and grandparents have all passed away and she doesn’t have any relatives in Canada who are Canadian citizens, permanent residents or registered Indians. Veronica would like to sponsor her aunt Betty, who she is very close with. Her aunt Betty is married and has a daughter.
Veronica meets the requirements to sponsor her aunt because she doesn’t have:
- a close living relative she could sponsor instead (such as a spouse, partner, child, orphaned sibling, parent or grandparent) and
- any other relative such as an aunt who is a citizen, permanent resident or registered Indian of Canada.
Betty’s daughter can be included on the application only if she qualifies as a dependent child. If her daughter is older than the age limit or she doesn’t meet all the requirements, she can’t be added to Betty’s application and will have to immigrate to Canada on her own.
But you don’t meet the requirements in the first line - no spouse, no children, no parents and no relatives. You are ”Veronica.”This is called “the lonely Canadian” path for sponsorship. You have a family so not eligible.
Veronica doesn’t have a spouse or a common-law partner. She has no children, and lives in Canada as a permanent resident. Her parents and grandparents have all passed away and she doesn’t have any relatives in Canada
This only applies if you meet the lonely Canadian rule. This means that to sponsor your aunt, you would need to have no children, no spouse, no other family members in Canada and both of your parents would need to be deceased.