Parents sponsorship 2015 - financial evaluation questions

[SamParent]

Hello everyone,

Trying to sponsor my parents and plan to submit the application on Jan 2015.

Need some help with the financial evaluation and would appreciate your answers:

1. Does anyone know if CIC will issue new forms for 2015? Is it safe to mail the application to my parents (for signatures) or wait for new forms and risk my chances for the 5000 cap?

2. Financial evaluation form Q15 says "Provide employment history as well as periods of unemployment for the last THREE consecutive taxation years preceding your application. Please ensure that you do not leave any gaps in time."

For us 3 consecutive taxation years are 2011, 2012 and 2013. However the first row includes income to "present", which means year 2014.

• How can I reflect my 2014 income if I (like all Canadians) don't have my 2014 NOA? Previous forums have mentioned that CIC will not accept paystubs any other document than NOA (or the C printout), so do I have to wait for NOA in 2015? This means that I will unlikely make it to be one of the first 5,000 regular PR applications.
  
  
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  My wife is on mat leave since April 2014 (we still exceed the LICO threshold), so there is no paystubs for her. Can I just calculate the EI monthly payment x months on mat leave? Yet, on January 2015 I won't have a document to support this total, is my application still valid?!
  What will CIC accept as an official document for this period of time?
  
  

I've also tried to contact CIC by phone, but I get the "sorry call later, due to high volume ... etc. etc."

Thank you in advance, Sam

 

[xylene]

I am in a different dilemma..I meet the min income requirement however I have been in Canada only as a permanent resident for the last one year. Would I be able to sponsor my parent since the processing time is going to be four years and they would ask for updated documents again.
Thanks.

 

[scylla]

I am in a different dilemma..I meet the min income requirement however I have been in Canada only as a permanent resident for the last one year. Would I be able to sponsor my parent since the processing time is going to be four years and they would ask for updated documents again.
Thanks.

First of all, it is too late to submit a sponsorship application for your parents in 2015 since the cap has already been reached. So the earliest you can submit your application will be January 2016 (next year).

To answer your question, to qualify to sponsor your parents in 2016 when the cap re-opens, you will need to provide Canadian tax return statement that show you meet the minimum income for 2014, 2013 and 2012. If you don't have Canadian tax returns for all three years showing you meet the minimum income requirements, then you won't qualify to sponsor your parents next year and will have to wait until you do. You have to meet the three year income requirement at the time you submit the application.

 

[xylene]

Thanks Scylla.