Sponsoring Korean Wife Outland, questions, please help!

[frege]

The sponsor's checklist says this about the Option C printout:

An original "Option C Printout" of your and your co-signer's last Notice of Assessment for the most recent taxation year.

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If you do not provide this printout, please provide an explanation on a separate sheet of paper.

This tells me:

- first, that they're only interested in the most recent taxation year;

- second, that it's possible to give an explanation of why you're not including it.

I think a foreign tax return plus proof of employment is fine. This is what has been said in other threads on the same topic:

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/do-i-need-option-c-printout-t105565.0.html

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/spousal-sponsorship-by-nonresident-canadian-citizen-workingliving-abroad-t135444.0.html

Also, I think it's inconceivable that somebody living and working in a foreign country would be receiving welfare in Canada.

In any case, if you provide the explanation they ask for (i.e., living abroad, so no Canadian tax return), I don't think you can be faulted for not submitting it.

 

[CanNZ]

Yeah, all your points are valid, but this is CIC we are talking about. To me, it is just not worth the potential hassle to not include it.

 

[hucards]

I didn't need an Option C as I have been out of canada for 8 years. I simply provided proof of my savings, investments, employment in Japan as well as a detailed explanation of my plans to resettle. As long as you have decent savings and a place in canada (family, friend) where you can live if unemployed there will be no problem.

 

[jason_kelly]

thanks for the advice re: the option C, I sent a fax to request one earlier just in case

 

[jason_kelly]

So I sent a fax to the tax office requesting an option C and just got off the phone with the CIC who assured me that as long as I include my kids birth certificates and the receipts showing that their applications for citizenship have been filed, there should be no problems. What a relief! He did say that if for some strange reason it wasn't enough I would just simply have to send them copies of the certificates which wont be a problem since I'm sure to have them before the application gets to Manila which is where they are required.