Question regarding spousal sponsor application income reporting

[Snowisland]

We are just about ready to mail our Outland application in.
My Canadian husband and sponsor shows a 30 percent higher net income on his T1 from 2014 than what we show he received in the period October 1, 2014 thru Oct. 1, 2015. We added up his direct deposits to come up with the amount. He did take off a lot more time from work that was unpaid than the year before.
Since we are mailing the forms on the 1st of October or a few days later, we are listing his net income for the Oct. 2014 to Octo 2015 time period. But the T1 forms are from the calendar year 2014.
Is this going to be a problem or red flag?
Thank you for your help.

 

[Tun701]

If you are doing a Sponsorship there is no reason for an income statement other than your Sponsors Option C that you have to request and submit from the Canadian government. The only thing they are looking for is that the Sponsor is not and has not been supported by the Government as in Welfare.

 

[Snowisland]

There is a question that asks for net income for the 12 month period prior to submission of the application.
Sponsorship evaluation form 5481 question 3. I don't know if I should just take what his option c shows and use that figure but really he has made less money in the last 12 months and I don't know if they check to verify the amount.

 

[Tun701]

Hi I went back and checked our application and we didn't fill that question in!! We just sent the option c and had no problems being accepted as a sponsor!! So I am pretty sure they are not too interested in the exact numbers as long as you are not on social aid! So you could just copy the numbers from the Option C and it should be all good!

 

[Tun701]

I photocopied our application just in case it got lost or they had a question!! Makes it easy to go back and look at it!!

 

[Snowisland]

Thank you