Student sponsoring student (no income)

[SuperTrixie]

I'm a US citizen living in Ontario and my common law partner is looking to sponsor me. He's a Canadian citizen in law school, so he has plenty of money from student loans and a lot of earning potential, but no income right now. I will be graduating in June from dental school, so I also have a lot of earning potential. Can he report loan money or earning potential instead? What would be our course of action here?

Thanks!

 

[bhoot]

I'm a US citizen living in Ontario and my common law partner is looking to sponsor me. He's a Canadian citizen in law school, so he has plenty of money from student loans and a lot of earning potential, but no income right now. I will be graduating in June from dental school, so I also have a lot of earning potential. Can he report loan money or earning potential instead? What would be our course of action here?

Thanks!

As long as the applicant(You) does not have any dependent children, income statement is not necessary. And also you do not need to show loans to them.

 

[brucem]

I'm a US citizen living in Ontario and my common law partner is looking to sponsor me. He's a Canadian citizen in law school, so he has plenty of money from student loans and a lot of earning potential, but no income right now. I will be graduating in June from dental school, so I also have a lot of earning potential. Can he report loan money or earning potential instead? What would be our course of action here?

Thanks!

Although there is no financial requirement to sponsor, the application does ask about income over the last 12 months and applicants are sometimes asked to provide additional evidence of how the sponsor will support their spouse. It has always been my opinion on this forum that you should illustrate a plan to CIC of how you intend to support yourselves so that the officer will be convinced that you will not require welfare. Remember your partner is entering into an agreement to financially support you for 3 years when you receive your PR.

If he has relatives that could offer to support you until you were both earning that might be useful, I'm not very sure whether CIC will accept a loan as income though.