Canada Family Visa
You may be eligible to sponsor your family members to become permanent residents so they can live, study and work in Canada.
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Canada Family Visa
The Canada Family class allows applicants or Canadian citizens or permanent residents to reunite with their family members. Under this visa class, you can sponsor your husband/wife, common-law partner, conjugal partner, dependent child (including adopted child) or another eligible relative (like parent or grandparent) for Canadian permanent residence.
To apply under this category, the sponsor and person being sponsored need to meet the eligibility criteria.
Here are different categories under the Canada Family Visa Class:
Spouse or Common-Law Partner Sponsorships
If you’re applying under the Spouse or Common-law partner in Canada class, your spouse or partner may be able to apply for an Open Work Permit.
Child or Other Dependent Sponsorship
If you’re eligible, you can sponsor your spouse, partner or dependent children to become permanent residents of Canada.
Parent or Grandparent Sponsorship
You must apply to become a sponsor. Your parents and grandparents must apply for permanent residence.
Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa – Subsequent entrant
An applicant who is a family member of someone who already holds a Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) can apply under this category.
Spouse Or Common-Law Partner Sponsorships
The spouse or common-law partner sponsorships allows Canadian citizens to sponsor their spouse or common-law partner for Canadian permanent residence. The visa application gets processed within 12-months.
Applicants residing in Canada may also qualify for an open work permit giving couples the chance to take care of their financial burdens.
A spousal open work permit allows sponsored individuals to find work in Canada while their sponsorship application is processed.
Individuals in common-law partnerships can also apply for spousal sponsorship if they are not married but have been living together for at least one year.
Child Or Other Dependent Sponsorship
Canadian permanent residents and citizens can sponsor their biological or adopted children for Canadian permanent residence. To be eligible under this category, the child or dependent sponsored must be under 22, unmarried and should not have any children of their own.
Parent Or Grandparent Sponsorship
The parent and grandparent sponsorship class helps family members to reunite with each other. Under this category, Permanent Canadian residents or citizens can sponsor their parents or grandparents to join them in Canada and become Canadian permanent residents.
To be eligible under this program, the sponsor has to meet certain conditions like proof of financial support etc. Sponsors who cannot support their parents or grandparent permanently may apply for the Super Visa – a long-term multiple-entry visa for parents and grandparents of Canadian PR holders.
Ineligible Relationships For Canada Family Visa
A Candidate is not eligible to be sponsored as a spouse, conjugal or common-law partner if:
- He/she is below 16 years of age
- He/she or the sponsor is married to someone else during the time of the marriage
- He/she has stayed away from the sponsor separately for at least one year and is the husband/wife is common-law/conjugal partner of another person
- The sponsor has immigrated to Canada, and during the time of the permanent residency was applied wherein he or she was a member of the family during the time of their eligibility assessment of their immigration requirements but were not evaluated
- The sponsor migrated to Canada and while applying for PR
- The sponsor had funded any other spouse, common-law or conjugal partner, and it’s not been three years since they became a permanent resident of Canada
- If the applicant disqualifies to sponsor their spouse, common-law partner or dependent child, the dependent and partner can apply to reside in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds
Benefits Of Canada Family Visa Program
There are unlimited benefits of applying for a Canada Family Visa from India. Some of them are listed below:
- Sponsored family members become Canadian permanent residency
- Right to live, work and study in Canada
- Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP)
- government-funded healthcare
- free education till the age of 18
- Subsidized rate of education at the university level
- Canada Pension Plan Benefits
- Old Age Security
- Guaranteed Income Supplement
To be eligible under this program, the sponsor has to meet certain conditions like proof of financial support etc. Sponsors who cannot support their parents or grandparent permanently may apply for the Super Visa – a long-term multiple-entry visa for parents and grandparents of Canadian PR holders.
Sponsorship Agreement
A Sponsorship Agreement is a contract outlining the conditions for the family member who is being sponsored as well as the sponsor. The sponsorship agreement must detail that the sponsor accepts that they are ready to sponsor his/her relative without any social assistance from the Canadian government. In case the sponsored relative is elderly, the sponsored individual must make sure that they can fund themselves.
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