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omarmir9 wrote:
<span style="color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Hi there,</span><div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">I am a Canadian Citizen and want to sponsor my real sister who is Pakistani national, divorced, having two kids under age 18. My parents are no more alive. I went through official Canadian Immigration site which reads as follows:<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><font -redactor="1" style="font-size: 18px;">"Who you can sponsor<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Depending on your circumstances, there are two options for who you can sponsor.<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> <div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><font -redactor="1" style="font-size: 15px;">Option 1: orphaned close relatives<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">You can sponsor close relatives only if they meet all conditions. This means they must be:<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> <ul style="color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">orphanedunder 18without a:- spouse
- conjugal partner
- common-law partner
related to you by blood or adoption, such as:- brothers or sisters
- nephews or nieces
- grandchildren
<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"><font -redactor="1" style="font-size: 15px;">Option 2: other relative<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">You may sponsor one relative, related by blood or adoption, of any age if you meet all of the conditions, including:<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> <ul style="color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">you don't have a living relative you could sponsor instead, such as a:- spouse
- common-law partner
- conjugal partner
- son or daughter
- parent
- grandparent
- brother or sister
- uncle or aunt
- nephew or niece
you don’t have any of the above-named relatives who is:- a Canadian citizen
- a permanent resident
- registered Indian under the Indian Act
<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">If the relative you want to sponsor has a spouse, partner, or dependent children who will come with them to Canada you must include them on the same sponsorship application."<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;"> <div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">I am not able to understand that under which option my sister falls. I would appreciate it very much if someone confirms that whether I can sponsor my sister or not under Family Class Sponsorship?<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Thanks,<div -redactor="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb21, 21, 21; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Omar | 1. You say your parents are deceased. If you are married,have children, of have a brother/sister/Aunt/Uncle/Niece/Nephew in Canada, then you can't sponsor your sister. If you have none of the above, then you can sponsor.
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