Friends,
My concern is the red colored point below, I request seniors to share if they have any thoughts on such point, are they serious to implement that PR can not sponsor widowed parent (mother)? - Thanks.
I got following article from http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/family-class-sponsorship-applications-for-parents-to-reopen-180000-files-in-limbo-231903.htm
Toronto, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/02/2013 -- On March 26 2013 Canada’s Minister of citizenship and Citizenship announced that the backlog in permanent resident applications has been reduced by 40%, and that sponsorship of parents may reopen during the year 2014. Absent from the press release was the status of 180,000 Canada Experience Class and Family Class files.
1. Were previously held in Buffalo, New York but moved to Ottawa.
2. Include files that have been been pending for at least three years, and may be
ripe for mandamus given the lack of acknowledgement by the Minister in this
latest press release.
3. Were intended to be processed February 2013 but have not yet been thus.
The Minister of immigration also revealed, “a temporary pause on new [parent] applications remains in effect until the end of the year”. This pause has been in effect since November 2011. Once lifted, there may be additional requirements to sponsor a relative such as:
1. Raising the income requirements of the sponsors and binding them to lifetime financial support of the elderly family members in Canada.
2. Adopting the “balance of family test” where parents and grandparents must have at least half of their children residing permanently in Canada to be eligible for sponsorship.
3. Restricting eligibility to sponsors who are Canadian citizens; currently permanent residents are eligible to sponsor their parents and grandparents. Limiting the applications to “exceptional cases” by, for example, requiring that the parent or grandparent “be widowed or have other exceptional needs.
“Of the above proposed requirements, it is predicted that the requirement for Canadian citizenship shall be implemented. Given the increased requirements for the sponsoring of parents, and failure to acknowledge the 180,000 files that used to be in Buffalo, legal representation would be essential to redress the increasing delay. Contact me for details.”
My concern is the red colored point below, I request seniors to share if they have any thoughts on such point, are they serious to implement that PR can not sponsor widowed parent (mother)? - Thanks.
I got following article from http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/family-class-sponsorship-applications-for-parents-to-reopen-180000-files-in-limbo-231903.htm
Toronto, Canada -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/02/2013 -- On March 26 2013 Canada’s Minister of citizenship and Citizenship announced that the backlog in permanent resident applications has been reduced by 40%, and that sponsorship of parents may reopen during the year 2014. Absent from the press release was the status of 180,000 Canada Experience Class and Family Class files.
1. Were previously held in Buffalo, New York but moved to Ottawa.
2. Include files that have been been pending for at least three years, and may be
ripe for mandamus given the lack of acknowledgement by the Minister in this
latest press release.
3. Were intended to be processed February 2013 but have not yet been thus.
The Minister of immigration also revealed, “a temporary pause on new [parent] applications remains in effect until the end of the year”. This pause has been in effect since November 2011. Once lifted, there may be additional requirements to sponsor a relative such as:
1. Raising the income requirements of the sponsors and binding them to lifetime financial support of the elderly family members in Canada.
2. Adopting the “balance of family test” where parents and grandparents must have at least half of their children residing permanently in Canada to be eligible for sponsorship.
3. Restricting eligibility to sponsors who are Canadian citizens; currently permanent residents are eligible to sponsor their parents and grandparents. Limiting the applications to “exceptional cases” by, for example, requiring that the parent or grandparent “be widowed or have other exceptional needs.
“Of the above proposed requirements, it is predicted that the requirement for Canadian citizenship shall be implemented. Given the increased requirements for the sponsoring of parents, and failure to acknowledge the 180,000 files that used to be in Buffalo, legal representation would be essential to redress the increasing delay. Contact me for details.”
