Sponsorship disagreement.

[Sillypanda34]

My spouse wants to provide some sort of paperwork that would make us financially responsible for his older brother who is trying to get a student visa to Canada. I am a citizen of the US, spouse is a resident. I do not want to be financially responsible for him, but I also know that I can't seem to find all the information I need. What kind of information would we have to provide? What kind of paperwork would we have to sign? We are living paycheck to paycheck, and the idea of being financially responsible for his brother is freaking me out.

 

[scylla]

You need to post your question to the International Students section of the forum.

To answer your question - you'll want to provide an affidavit of support and will also need to provide your bank balance to demonstrate that you have the funds available. Simply saying you'll support him will do absolutely nothing - you need to show that you actually have the funds available. If you're living pay cheque to pay cheque, I'm assuming your savings are limited in which case saying you'll support him won't help his application in any way if you can't show a bank balance to back it up.