When sponsoring family members for Canadian immigration, you may find yourself in a situation where your income alone doesn’t meet the minimum requirements.
Complete guide to qualifying income for family sponsorship applications.
Navigate criminal inadmissibility and sponsorship challenges with expert strategies from AVID’s Immigration Simplified resource center.
Canada stands as a global leader in LGBTQ+ rights, treating same-sex couples with complete equality under immigration law.
Sponsoring multiple family members to Canada isn’t as straightforward as submitting several applications at once.
When a sponsorship relationship ends—whether through separation, divorce, or breakdown—the immigration implications can feel overwhelming.
Conditional permanent residence in Canada is a status imposed on sponsored spouses, partners, and dependent children who have been in a relationship with their sponsor for two years or less at the time their permanent residence application is approved.
When your family sponsorship application gets refused, it’s not the end of your story.
Family sponsorship applications in Canada face a 23% refusal rate across all streams, with spouse sponsorship applications being refused at approximately 18% and parent/grandparent sponsorships at 31%
Canadian family sponsorship applications live or die by documentation.
A sponsorship interview is Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) way of verifying the genuineness of your relationship and ensuring all requirements are met.
Background checks are the security backbone of Canada’s family sponsorship program.