Hi all, I applied for parents sponsorship in July 2017, and my sister who is 19 was not a dependent under the old rules.
I have enough income for 5 people, and my sister would have been 6th person, and I don't meet minimum income for 6 people in 2014 (2015/16 are fine)
My question is would they have looked at income for total 6 people even though my sister (over 18 and not dependent) will not being sponsored/accompanying to Canada under the old rules? I did get sponsor approval, and wondered what they counted.
I know the dependent age has changed now, and we can request to add her, but wondering how this will impact the financial requirement,
since I wont be able to meet it with including her. So is it better to just leave her out of this whole thing??
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
If you leave the app as-is (without sister) then most likely IRCC will continue to process it under the old rules so your family size will stay 5 people and your sister will not get PR.
If you try to add her as a dependent now under new rules, then since you don't meet LICO in 2014 with her in family size, you would risk the
entire app being rejected. So don't add her at all. Don't change anything on the app you already submitted.
They changed the dependent age so that families can live together. but this is negatively affecting some people. They should have kept an open option to add them or not its upto the sponsor.
I agree with this, since you won the lottery spot under the old rules, they should be grandfathered in for you so you should have the option to leave the dependent that didn't qualify under old rules, completely out of application and family size.
Perhaps IRCC will consider this, however who knows.
My brother is 22 years old. Even if i would have met the lico requirement, he may have not gotten the PR because the processing time takes up more than a year atleast. and he would not fall under the definition of dependent child once he passes 23.
Actually once an app is submitted, all dependents ages are locked in on that date. So even if they go over age 22, they are still kept in the app as dependents indefinitely.
The only thing that would remove them as dependents, is if they get married or become common-law.
