Sponsoring Niece from abroad

Hi

nu_bee wrote: Thanks PMM... yup he is single, never married, has no children our parents and grandparents are deceased and no one else lives in Canada.  Thanks for the clarification, sometimes wording and punctuation can be misleading especially in legalese parlance.

You must ensure that he doesn't have a spouse/partner and their are no Aunts/Uncles/Nieces/Nephews/Brother/Sisters in Canada.

Edited by pmm - 30 Aug 2011 at 1:57pm

Thanks PMM... yup he is single, never married, has no children our parents and grandparents are deceased and no one else lives in Canada.  Thanks for the clarification, sometimes wording and punctuation can be misleading especially in legalese parlance.  

yes, a neice. . . who is ORPHANED . . .

As I said in my first post in this thread: there are ways and I acknowledged that some are not entirely honest or legal.

"Some" being a quantity that is less than all, that statement was intended to also acknowledge that there are ways which are honest and legal . . . many ways actually. And I alluded to some of the most common: The Canadian becomes a business owner of a business that qualifies to sponsor certain workers and the neice (cousin, nephew) works to become qualified under that category, and . . . well eventually the extended family member is brought to Canada to work for the uncle or aunt. This is oft times done on a larger scale: for example, a qualified brother could be brought to Canada this way, and bring all dependents with him . . . and once they have come and landed in Canada, the brother can go home and resume life there while the dependents remain in Canada as PRs. This is just one of many, many ways.

And, of course, there are not so honest ways as well.

Sponsorship of a legitimate/genuinely adopted dependent child is OK. If the child is a member of extended family, of course CIC will examine the case closely to be sure it is indeed a genuine adoption. There are many factors involved in making such a determination, but the fact that the adopted child is a neice or nephew does not preclude adoption and sponsoring as one's own child . . . though the burden of proving it is genuine is more difficult. If the neice is orphaned, it is a lot, lot less difficult. Bottom line: if the adoption is a genuine adoption of a child to make that child one's own child and raise that child as one's own, that is OK. But CIC is well aware that very, very few aunts and uncles adopt their neices or nephews to raise as their own while the neice's or nephew's parents are still alive. Who does this? Well, yeah, many will do it in order to bring the neice or nephew to Canada in order to give them more opportunities in life, if this was allowed, but that is explicitly about obtaining status to live in Canada, so it is an adoption of convenience, that is, not genuine.

Such adoptions may be genuine in many circumstances. Each case depends on its own particulars. If a parent or someone who has been acting in the role of the parent, is still alive and competent, the burden is such that I'd strongly recommend using a qualified immigration lawyer (NOT a consultant) to assist in both the adoption and the sponsored child application.

You gotta also keep in mind that people lie. 

When they are asked how they got into Canada they said Skilled Worker, Family Sponsorship etc but not many say they applied for refugee and other things like that so do not believe in everything you hear from people.