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1. Canadian Immigration Immigration Family and Spousal Sponsorship RUSS WENINGER Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public

2. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsor Canadian citizen or permanent resident, be at least 18 years of age, reside in Canada, and have sufficient income to support their relatives once they arrive in Canada. A sponsor must enter into a written agreement with the Canadian government to support their relatives for a period of three years for spouses, common-law partners, or conjugal partners, and ten years for other types of relatives.

3. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Spouse A spouse is a husband or wife. To be considered the sponsor’s spouse, the sponsor and the applicant must be legally married. If the marriage did not occur in Canada, provided that the marriage is legal in the country where it occurred, then it will be accepted by the Canadian immigration authorities (assuming immigration authorities regard the marriage as genuine)

4. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Conjugal Partner : A conjugal partner is a person who has been in a marriage-like relationship with the sponsor for at least one year although they have not lived together because of extenuating circumstances.

5. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Common-law Partner A common-law partner is a person with whom the sponsor has lived together with for at least one year in a conjugal relationship. A conjugal relationship is a marriage-like relationship.

6. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Children A sponsor’s dependent children include children who are under the age of 22 and unmarried. Children over the age of 22 and children who are married can be sponsored if, since reaching the age of 22 or the date they were married, they have remained full-time students and have been financially dependent on the sponsor.

7. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Parents Mother or father. It should be noted that when parents are sponsored they may also bring their dependent children with them, which will be the sponsor’s brothers and sisters. In this way a sponsor can bring their siblings, who are under the age of 22, or who are over 22 and are full-time students, to Canada as permanent residents

8. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Orphans An orphan is someone whose parents are both deceased. An orphaned sibling (brother or sister), nephew or niece, or grandchild may be sponsored if he or she is under the age of 18 and unmarried. Adopted Children A person who is under the age of 18 who the sponsor intends to adopt in Canada may be sponsored.

9. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Other Relative Where a sponsor does not have any spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, child, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece living in Canada, and no relative living abroad who may be sponsored under the regular categories, then they may sponsor any other relative regardless of their age. It should be noted that this category is only very rarely applicable

10. Canadian Immigration Immigration: Family and Spousal Sponsorship Sponsored Other Relative Where a sponsor does not have any spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, child, parent, grandparent, sibling, uncle, aunt, nephew, or niece living in Canada, and no relative living abroad who may be sponsored under the regular categories, then they may sponsor any other relative regardless of their age. It should be noted that this category is only very rarely applicable