Inland Sponsorship: kids then husband

[Dmshtns]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and had enough of conflicting info, so I hope someone has been through something similar to help me.

So I am currently in Canada with my kids, they're French and I'm Canadian and unfortunately can't be citizens and save me this headache because of this law a few years ago where Canadians born outside can't pass the citizenship if the kids are also born outside..

For the kids, there's the DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN FOR MINORS IMMIGRATING TO Canada (IMM5604) form that I can have my husband fill for me and send so I can start filling out the rest of the immigration forms. Ok, this part isn't the issue.

The issue is what happens after: suppose I start doing the kids, and then my husband arrives in a few months, am I allowed to begin another immigration form with him as the main applicant? Or, since we're one family, does everyone have to be listed on the same form filed and sent at the same time?

We never planned to begin my husband's papers while he's overseas... The whole idea was to do his papers while he's in Canada so we can apply for an open work permit (OWP) simultaneously.

I don't know what to do. I can't keep my kids on visitor status for too long, especially that one of them is 4 and should be in school in September.

I appreciate any advice

 

[Rob_TO]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and had enough of conflicting info, so I hope someone has been through something similar to help me.

So I am currently in Canada with my kids, they're French and I'm Canadian and unfortunately can't be citizens and save me this headache because of this law a few years ago where Canadians born outside can't pass the citizenship if the kids are also born outside..

For the kids, there's the DECLARATION FROM NON-ACCOMPANYING PARENT/GUARDIAN FOR MINORS IMMIGRATING TO Canada (IMM5604) form that I can have my husband fill for me and send so I can start filling out the rest of the immigration forms. Ok, this part isn't the issue.

The issue is what happens after: suppose I start doing the kids, and then my husband arrives in a few months, am I allowed to begin another immigration form with him as the main applicant? Or, since we're one family, does everyone have to be listed on the same form filed and sent at the same time?

We never planned to begin my husband's papers while he's overseas... The whole idea was to do his papers while he's in Canada so we can apply for an open work permit (OWP) simultaneously.

I don't know what to do. I can't keep my kids on visitor status for too long, especially that one of them is 4 and should be in school in September.

I appreciate any advice

"INLAND" is only for sponsoring a spouse along with dependent children.

When you sponsor children only, there is no inland option and the application only allows you to do an OUTLAND process. This means there is no implied status granted with a child's application. At least this is how the rules used to be and from what I've seen they have not changed.

As such if you start children's app then later your husband wants to be sponsored, I'm not sure if you will be able to add him to the children's app as they are different forms/processes to follow. Also since children's app is OUTLAND there is no OWP associated with it so your husband could not get one even if he was allowed to be added to the app.

You may be able to have 2 simultaneous apps going at same time (Outland for kids and Inland for spouse along with OWP) but I'm really not sure on this.

 

[Dmshtns]

I honestly don't see the point in outland sponsorship for my husband because he's coming to live here in 2 months... This is where everything is so confusing

Also, why wouldn't there be be inland Sponsorship for dependents... I am their guardian and they traveled with me.

 

[Rob_TO]

I honestly don't see the point in outland sponsorship for my husband because he's coming to live here in 2 months... This is where everything is so confusing

You may as well wait until your husband arrives, then submit an Inland app for him and kids, along with OWP app.

I don't see much point to submit an outland app for your kids now. It gives them no status so you'd have to apply to extend their visitor status anyways while their app is processing.

You should be able to enroll them in school based on your own citizenship. Best to ask the specific school in your district what the process is.