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Does social assistance affect citizenship application?

alxms10

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Hi guys

I know that getting social assistance from the government affects application to sponsor your wife/husband? I am single and currently a PR, will social assistance affect my citizenship application once I decide to apply?

Thanks
 

JPBless

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Hi guys

I know that getting social assistance from the government affects application to sponsor your wife/husband? I am single and currently a PR, will social assistance affect my citizenship application once I decide to apply?

Thanks
No
 

alxms10

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London-UK
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London-UK, then Paris-France, then Cairo-Egypt
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Passport Req..
05/05/2017, then 05/06/2017
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22/06/2017
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Thanks JPBless for the reply, that's what I thought and I wanted to double check
 

canuck78

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Hi guys

I know that getting social assistance from the government affects application to sponsor your wife/husband? I am single and currently a PR, will social assistance affect my citizenship application once I decide to apply?

Thanks
If you are a masters student you likely don’t qualify for social assistance. You have chosen to return to school and not find employment. Full-time students are usually either dependent on student loans in order to pay for their studies, pause their studies until they have the funds to study or work full or part-time during their studies. You also have to be actively looking for work to qualify for welfare.

https://www.alberta.ca/income-support-eligibility.aspx
http://www.humanservices.alberta.ca/AWOnline/IS/5014.html
 
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terulinkarezinka

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Hi guys

I know that getting social assistance from the government affects application to sponsor your wife/husband? I am single and currently a PR, will social assistance affect my citizenship application once I decide to apply?

Thanks
During the citizenship application process, no one cares about your financial situation, even if you were unemployed since the day you got your PR.
 
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