What are the minimum financial requirements for a spousal sponsorship in a PR application? Daughter has applied for her new husband but we, as parents, do not think she should qualify for sponsor's minimum requirements for support. Her husband does not work, she has a new child and she does not work and receives disability income monthly, as their only source of income.
Financial eligibility requirements for sponsorship
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Technically there are none. However if she is on disability then IRCC generally wants to see that the spouse is working to show the sponsored spouse won't end up on social assistance. If neither are working, the application could be refused for financial reasons.
How are they surviving now with a newborn without accessing assistance from a charity or your financial assistance? If they are paying rent, food, diapers/wipes, potentially formula, etc. can’t imagine it is feasible in most parts of Canada. What is the husband’s status in Canada?
The only way they have been surviving is with assistance from us. He has just received his working visa within the last two months, but has not received any work. He had been working under the table for cash prior to that, but his relations with those employers went sour. He is a radically abusive, manipulative person, who has isolated our daughter and now preventing her from having any contact with us and any of her friends. He confines her to their basement suite, with drawn curtains, with her not being able to leave unless he approves and accompanies her. She has left him, or attempted to leave him, ten times now but he always finds a way to convince her to stay or come back. His lawyer informed him of her latest request to cancel her sponsorship and her immediately dug his claws into her to charm her back. We believe if she doesn’t qualify to be a sponsor for him that he would finally have no use for her.
I'm sorry. That's a tough situation.
There's still a good chance she may be approved as a sponsor. I wouldn't hang your hat on her being refused.
Did she formally request to withdraw her sponsorship? Normally it's hard to pull that back once done.
Agree with Scylla that this is a tough situation. Not much you can do but I would at least try to contact IRCC to clarify that you are supporting them financially but will not be willing to do this longterm. I would also suggest raising concerns that this is an abusive relationship with proof if you have it and that she has attempted to withdraw sponsorship in the past but under pressure has not followed through. In general I would start collecting any proof that this is an abusive relationship in case your child does leave. She may not be able to keep the documentation herself.
She had gotten away from him and had contacted the lawyer, she (they) were using, but her lawyer would not return calls, or text, going on a month and a half. she was asking for the form to fill out. Unfortunately the lawyer is of the same culture/ethnic background as our daughters husband and it seemed quite evident that she was dragging her heals and more interested in supporting our daughters husbands interests.
If she ever wants to withdraw again, have her do this herself directly to IRCC, don't work through the lawyer. She can do this herself and at the same time remove the lawyer as her representative.
Lawyer should be reported.
Would make sure to keep the records of attempting to contact the lawyer. Sadly many abusive partners delete text messages and emails so would keep a copy yourself and screenshot things like texts.
This is horrible.
Agree that she should remove the lawyer as representative, withdraw the application herself, and report the lawyer.
Whatever the lawyer did was unethical.
