Hello everyone. I received a letter from CIC and hope i can ask some advise on this please, here's the first part of the letter
This letter refers to your application for permanent residence under the Spouse or Common-law
Partner in Canada class.
Subsection 16(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act states that a person who makes an
application must answer truthfully all questions put to them for the purpose of the examination and
must produce a visa and all relevant evidence and documents that the officer reasonably requires.
Section 42 of the Act states that a foreign national, other than a protected person, is inadmissible on
grounds of an inadmissible family member if their accompanying family member or, in prescribed
circumstances, their non-accompanying family member is inadmissible.
In order to determine that you are not inadmissible due to the inadmissibility of a family member, the
family member(s) you have listed on your application are required to undergo immigration
examination pursuant to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Regulations, regardless of
whether or not they have been included for concurrent processing for permanent residence. The visa
office will be contacting your family members with further instructions.
In the meantime, if you are in contact with your family members please encourage them to comply
with all requests as their compliance will help to ensure the timely processing of your application.
IMPORTANT: Failure to notify this office of any change in address of your family members
overseas will result in a delay of your permanent resident application. If they move during the
processing of your application, please provide the new address where they can be contacted.
Subsection 21(1) of the Act states that a foreign national becomes a permanent resident if an officer is
satisfied that the foreign national has applied for that status, has met the obligations set out in
paragraph 20(1)(a) and subsection 20(2) and is not inadmissible.
Additionally, subsection 72(1)(e)(ii) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations states that
a foreign national in Canada becomes a permanent resident if, following an examination, it is
established that they and their family members, whether accompanying or not, are not inadmissible.
The onus is on you to satisfy me that you are not inadmissible and can therefore become a
permanent resident. Failure to comply with our instructions may result in the refusal of your
application for permanent residence.
Question:
1.) what is this part of the letter means? Note: On our application, we included my child in dependent column but we didn't pay the $150