Question About Family Sponsorship

[Josh21]

According to the CIC website, a permanent resident can sponsor one relative regardless of relation or age if they meet certain conditions such as not being married, decent income etc.

Has anyone gone through this before and how long does it generally take?

Is sponsoring a relative who is already inside Canada legally on a study permit easier? Like for Example suppose one brother is a PR and the other is on a study permit. Can the PR sponsor the brother relatively easily?

 

[scylla]

Can the PR sponsor the brother relatively easily?

Are their parents both deceased?

 

[Josh21]

Are their parents both deceased?

One is deceased and the other is quite happy back home living out retirement with no intentions of leaving to go stay in Canada or any other country.

The brother on the study permit is currently studying at McGill in the honours stream if that helps.

Is there a case to be made here or is sponsorship not an option? It's ok if its not an option but I was inclined to think that CIC may allow it since he's already inside Canada and will probably be a PR in the future anyway through the Quebec Student PR program.

What do you think? Thanks for the help by the way!

 

[scylla]

Sponsorship through family class is not an option as long as one of the parents is still alive. It doesn't matter if that parent has no intentions of leaving their home country and the brother is already in Canada studying. CIC will not make an exception. Don't bother applying - you'll be wasting your time.

 

[Josh21]

Sponsorship through family class is not an option as long as one of the parents is still alive. It doesn't matter if that parent has no intentions of leaving their home country and the brother is already in Canada studying. CIC will not make an exception. Don't bother applying - you'll be wasting your time.

Edit : Thanks, was worth a shot asking I guess. Better you then CIC.

 

[scylla]

It's here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/relatives-apply-who.asp

Specifically the section below. I have bolded the part that applies to you. Because a parent is still alive and can be sponsored by the brother through family class, this disqualifies the brother from sponsoring his sibling who is studying in Canada.

You can sponsor:

- brothers or sisters, nephews or nieces, granddaughters or grandsons who are orphaned, under 18 years of age and not married or in a common-law relationship
- another relative of any age or relationship but only under specific conditions (see Note below)
- accompanying relatives of the above (for example, spouse, partner and dependent children).

Note: You can sponsor one relative regardless of age or relationship only if you do not have a living spouse or common-law partner, conjugal partner, a son or daughter, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece who could be sponsored as a member of the family class, and you do not have any relative who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident or registered as an Indian under the Indian Act.