Hello All,
I have a question if you can clarify for us please.
My Status;
I hold a valid Canadian Permanent Resident card which i received prior to getting married and having 2x children all in the past 3x years.
I did not yet move to Canada due to the following reasons;
1) Having the children and they were too small to relocate until now
2) Started my own business in several European countries which took a bit more time then anticipated.
My permanent resident card expires in November 2009.
I am now ready to relocate, however I understand that i cannot sponsor my wife and children due to the fact that i do not have a Canadian income for the past 12 months.
This is all clear from various websites I studied.
My question is as follows;
I have an aunt and uncle who are both Canadian citizens with no dependent children of their own.
Would it be possible for my Aunt and Uncle to become the official sponsor of my wife (to them, my wife is their ‘niece in law’)and our 2x small children? They have sufficient proof of Canadian income at their disposal. I would also obviously co-sign this sponsorship document.
I have also recently set up a Canadian branch for my business however it did not do any trading yet, so income is not possible to be shown from here.
Thank you any assistance would be appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Kornel Kathi
(We are residing in Czech republic at present as my wife and children are Czech citizens) – I hold a Hungarian passport.
Kornel Kathi
the official site is http://www.cic.gc.ca
if you look at this section http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/sponsor/relatives-apply-who.asp
it seems to say aunts and uncles can sponsor nephews and nieces and then and I think your spouse and kids are automatically included in that.
Good luck on your move.
I guess nobody told you about residency requirements for permanent residents. When you have permanent resident status in Canada and choose to move away and live somewhere else, you lose it. The maximum you can be outside Canada is 3 years in any 5 year period. If you are over this limit, you have already lost your PR status, even though your card is still valid. You can see more info on that at http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/about-pr.asp#keep_status
If you did spend at least 2 years in Canada within the last 5 years and your PR status therefore still valid, you can sponsor your wife and kids without income because you do not need to prove income to sponsor spouse and children unless you are moving to Quebec, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/3900E2.asp around the middle of the page.
If your PR status is gone, it is possible that your aunt and uncle can sponsor all of you under provincial nominee program family stream if they are living in Alberta or Manitoba. If not, you will have to figure out a way to apply for PR again.