Canada gives chance to families to reunite and live together. If you are Canadian citizen or permanent residence, you may eligible to sponsored your legal spouse, common- law partner or even in some cases conjugal partner.

While you have opportunity to reunite with your relatives, you should have knowledge about requirements, responsibilities and duties.What is requirement to be sponsor?

First of all, you should be Canadian citizen or a permanent resident

• Be at least 18 years or older
• Not be sponsor of another partner in last 3 years
• Not have any experience of harm to your relative
• Not have any criminal conviction inside or outside Canada
• Good standing financially
• Not have more than one wife or husband
• Your partner intending to live in Canada after been permanent resident
• And other requirements that better you be master on that before you start your application.

What is your responsibility as a sponsor?

You should agree to accept 3- year undertaking even if you separate or divorce. It means, you as a sponsor obligate to take care of your partner from the day comes permanent resident until 3- year. It means if in this 3 year, he or she applied for any means- tested public benefits, you should repay the cost of social assistant in last 3 years.

In case, you decide to get divorce, still sponsor obligation to take care of sponsored person for 3 years.

If sponsored person has child your have undertaking 10 years from the day your dependent child (or the dependent child of your spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner) under 22 years of age becomes a permanent resident, or until the child becomes 22 years old, whichever comes first.

 If you are a person who has plan to move to Canada permanently, this note can help you to know how important is to improve your English or French language to have a better chance to immigrate to Canada.

There is an example to compare scoring in Express Entry for same person with different language level.

Sara is 29 years old from Africa with more than 6 years work experience in NOC A and has Master’s degree in mechanical Engineer who applied last year with Canadian Language Bench mark or CLB 7 (it is equal to IELTS Listening6.0 Reading 6.0 Writing 6.0 Speaking 6.0) and this year applied with CLB 9 (it is equal to IELTS Listening 8.0Reading 7.0 Writing 7.0 Speaking 7.0). Sara dos not have any family or close friend, back ground study and work experience in Canada.

As you see, she did not have enough score to receive invitation to apply for permanent residence last year while this year, her score very close to minimum score of people who got invitation. Express Entry design for skilled and educated people who want live in Canada. From January 2020 until September 2020, Canada issued more than 60,000 invitation to apply for permanent residence.

Express Entry is cheapest way to immigrate to Canada. If you are educated with at least one-year full time work experience in manager position, professional job or technical job, with at least CLB 7 in English or French, take your chance and apply for Express Entry.