Hi, I will soon be migrating to canada, I have my parents and a younger brother who's a special kid which as per Canadian laws comes under medically inadmissible but since he's dependent on.my parents how do I sponsor him. Both me and my sister will be in canada so there's no point of them staying in another country all alone. Please help is there a way I can sponsor him?
Sponsoring my parents and brother who's a special kid
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What class are you migrating to Canada under?
You can sponsor parents under the PGP program if you are a PR, but you need to have 3 years of Canadian income and meet LICO. Either you or your sister can apply (not both). PGP is done as a lottery with limits on the number of applicants chosen each year (10,000 for 2017 with significantly more applicants that available spots) and you need to meet LICO during the entire process. Realistically, if you are just landing as a PR, with no Canadian income from any source as of yet (including your spouses), you meet LICO ($45,712 plus 30% for a family of 4 in 2017), it would be a minimum of 4 years before you could qualify to submit an application. Then you have to be picked in the lottery, which really is luck of the draw.
If they include your brother in the application as a dependant (he would need to meet the age limit or be dependant) and he is found medically inadmissible, all three would have their applications rejected. Your in for a long, potentially difficult task.
You can sponsor parents under the PGP program if you are a PR, but you need to have 3 years of Canadian income and meet LICO. Either you or your sister can apply (not both). PGP is done as a lottery with limits on the number of applicants chosen each year (10,000 for 2017 with significantly more applicants that available spots) and you need to meet LICO during the entire process. Realistically, if you are just landing as a PR, with no Canadian income from any source as of yet (including your spouses), you meet LICO ($45,712 plus 30% for a family of 4 in 2017), it would be a minimum of 4 years before you could qualify to submit an application. Then you have to be picked in the lottery, which really is luck of the draw.
If they include your brother in the application as a dependant (he would need to meet the age limit or be dependant) and he is found medically inadmissible, all three would have their applications rejected. Your in for a long, potentially difficult task.
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Bluetruck has given you the full answer. If you're just coming to Canada now and aren't working here yet, it will be a minimum of four years before you'll qualify to enter the lottery to sponsor your parents for PR. If your brother is deemed to be medically inadmissible, this mean the entire application will be refused (your parents as well).
As mentioned, if he's medically inadmissible due to excessive demand then there will be no possible way to ever sponsor him and your parents together. Even if it was just your parents, with the lottery in place, income requirements, more and more people qualifying every year, and who knows what rules in place X years from now, new PRs to Canada really need to proceed under the assumption that they will never be able to sponsor their parents, ever.
If living in the same country with them is very important to you, then you may need to seriously reconsider if you should be pursuing PR status in Canada to begin with.
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