Question about our plan

[charlez]

Hello and thank you for this great forum,
I have a few questions regarding the family sponsorship program.

I'm a french national (please forgive me for any english mistakes) and my wife is from the Philippines (not yet a french citizen). We have 2 children.
The sister of my wife has recently become a PR in Quebec, she's a nurse but is not yet able to work because her license is not processed yet. It will be in a few weeks or months.
In the mean time, she's working a clothing factory making low wages.

Anyway, she's also about to move to Alberta (for many reasons, higher wages for nurses, quality of life).
And when she move there, she will technically be able to sponsor her sister, my wife, because Quebec doesn't accept sponsorship for siblings.

That said, I read in the CIC family sponsorship requirements that the sponsor need to have 1 (or more?) year of income to be allowed to sponsor a family member.

We'd like to not have to wait that long if that's possible.
So, what if the husband of the sponsored, that would be me, have way more assets that the sponsor (and a job as well, owning a business in Florida) and that we can show to CIC that we can support ourselves ?
Do we still need to wait for the sponsor to show proof of income ?

Also, we don't plan also to live with the sponsor, we'd like to buy our own house instead and don't need at all to ask financial help to the Canadian government.

Do you think we stand a chance having this sponsorship accepted ? If yes, should we use the services of a lawyer ?

Thank you for your input!

 

[scylla]

The Alberta family sponsorship stream was closed a while back. So no - she won't be able to sponsor you.

 

[scylla]

Just to add - the program was closed to new applications in August 2013. So the information you are looking at is unfortunately out-of-date and the program no longer available.

Having said that, you can certainly look into options for immigrating to Canada independently (e.g. by qualifying on your own as skilled workers).

 

[charlez]

Thank you for your reply,

But I don't understand something.
On the Alberta immigration website (Sorry I don't have the right to post a link, if you Google "Alberta permanent immigration, this is the first result) it says that the sponsor can apply directly to CIC, it's not an obligation to use the Province program, especialy if it doens't exist anymore.

 

[scylla]

But I don't understand something.
On the Alberta immigration website (Sorry I don't have the right to post a link, if you Google "Alberta permanent immigration, this is the first result) it says that the sponsor can apply directly to CIC, it's not an obligation to use the Province program, especialy if it doens't exist anymore.

Yes - you can apply directly to the Federal program. But you must meet the Fedral program requirements for Family Sponsorship. In order for your sister in law to sponsor your family through the Federal program, she would need to meet ALL of the requirements below:

- Have no husband or common law partner
- Have no children
- Both parents deceased (no longer alive)
- No family members in Canada (i.e. no siblings, uncles, aunts, nephews, etc.)

Does she meet all of the requirements abov?

 

[charlez]

All right, thank you, well she does has one parent still living in the Philippines that she could sponsor instead of her sister.

I had the impression that a sister was on the same "level" of priority than a parent by reading this on the CIC website:

You may sponsor one relative, related by blood or adoption, of any age if you meet all of the following conditions:

you do not have a spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner, or one of the following living relatives you could sponsor instead:
son or daughter,
parent,
grandparent,
brother or sister,
uncle, aunt,
nephew or niece.