Dependent Child

[jaja82]

Hello Everyone
Can somebody please help me I am now sponsoring my only son who is now in Philippines. There was a question under IMM1334
Under Sponsor Eligibility Assessment
If I answer YES to question number 5 and you are sponsoring a spouse, common law or conjugal, you are not eligible to be sponsor and YOU should ``not submit your application.
#5. In the five years preceding this application, did you became a permanent resident after being sponsored as a spouse, common law.

My answer is YES to this because I became permanent resident at 2013 being sponsored by my ex husband, we are now divorced.

Does this mean I cant sponsor my son? Please advice me

 

[kasskiss125]

Did you declare your son in your initial application when you were sponsored?

 

[pinkgeek]

If you did not have your son on YOUR application for Permanent Residency, as a dependent, you cannot sponsor him now.

Even if he wasn't coming to Canada with you at the time of your application for PR, you still needed to include him and have him medically examined etc.

If there was some reason that he could NOT be included (ex: former spouse had sole custody of him and refused to let him be medically examined etc), you had to declare that and show proof at the time of your PR application. Even then, you would still have had to sign a declaration stating that you understood that you weren't completing his necessary checks at the time of your PR application and that you understood that you cannot sponsor your child for PR in the future.

 

[Rob_TO]

Hello Everyone
Can somebody please help me I am now sponsoring my only son who is now in Philippines. There was a question under IMM1334
Under Sponsor Eligibility Assessment
If I answer YES to question number 5 and you are sponsoring a spouse, common law or conjugal, you are not eligible to be sponsor and YOU should ``not submit your application.
#5. In the five years preceding this application, did you became a permanent resident after being sponsored as a spouse, common law.

My answer is YES to this because I became permanent resident at 2013 being sponsored by my ex husband, we are now divorced.

Does this mean I cant sponsor my son? Please advice me

That rule only applies to sponsoring a new spouse, so you don't need to worry about it.

You can go ahead and sponsor your son immediately since you declared him as non-accompanying on your own original PR app.

 

[jaja82]

Yes I do declare him and we both take the medical exam before. So, I will just continue then.

 

[Rob_TO]

Yes I do declare him and we both take the medical exam before. So, I will just continue then.

Note he will need to do a brand new medical exam after you submit the new application, since the previous one he did would be expired by now.