Citizenship

[St.marks]

hi

does anyone have some information on this. Will appreciate.
I have a daughter from previous marriage whose custody is with the mother and the child along with the mother does not live in Canada .I sponsored them as PR 10yrs back but the mother along with the child left Canada within 1 year of arrival .We were divorced and then I remarried and sponsored my present wife . we have 2 children from my present wife who are both Canadian born .. does this scenario affect my citizenship application. I am unable to obtain the school records of the child from previous marriage. There is no court order for child support but I would like to mention this child on my application as she is my daughter from my pervious marriage and want to keep her options open.

Please help

 

[PMM]

Hi

hi

does anyone have some information on this. Will appreciate.
I have a daughter from previous marriage whose custody is with the mother and the child along with the mother does not live in Canada .I sponsored them as PR 10yrs back but the mother along with the child left Canada within 1 year of arrival .We were divorced and then I remarried and sponsored my present wife . we have 2 children from my present wife who are both Canadian born .. does this scenario affect my citizenship application. I am unable to obtain the school records of the child from previous marriage. There is no court order for child support but I would like to mention this child on my application as she is my daughter from my pervious marriage and want to keep her options open.

Please help

1. No, it doesn't effect your citizenship application.
2. Why would you want to obtain your daughter's school records? She is outside Canada, has probably lost her PR status and is not applying for citizenship with you.

 

[HighFive]

Hi there,
I would suggest you to write a cover letter explaining the situation with your daughter's school records and attach it to your application. That should work.

 

[eileenf]

I would like to mention this child on my application as she is my daughter from my pervious marriage and want to keep her options open.

It's great that you are looking out for your daughter even though you don't have physical custody of her. I'm sad that that's not always the case with parents due to the complexities of separation, etc.
Citizenship applicants need to be current PRs though, and since your daughter's status has lapsed, I'm pretty sure that you would need to sponsor her again as a PR. You don't mention how old your daughter is, but one possibility that you might want to think about is sponsoring your daughter to Canada as a PR when she is an older teenager so she could go to high school, university, cegep, college, or work and then qualify for citizenship on her own. I believe the age cut-off is 22 for dependent sponsorship, but please check that out and verify the options at hand and processing timelines.