Sponsorship of Mother-in-Law. One Quick Question

[BramptonGuy]

New to the site, hopefully someone can answer this question I can't seem to find the answer for on Canada Immigration site.

Background. Married to my wife over 20 years. She's from Trinidad and is Canadian Citizen for 15 years. I sponsored her when we got married. Her Sister lives in the US and is married to US citizen (she is also US citizen)

Their mother would like to move here, but so as to immediately get out, she will initially be going to the US on Green card.

My question is: Can she go through sponsorship process from within the US while on their on a Green Card? We'd hate for her to have to apply from Trinidad and have to go back and forth.

Everything else we seem to have in order, we are aware of the "lottery" system now in place and are aware it may take a few times dependant on how many applicants there are.

Thanks in advance,

BG

 

[Rob_TO]

New to the site, hopefully someone can answer this question I can't seem to find the answer for on Canada Immigration site.

Background. Married to my wife over 20 years. She's from Trinidad and is Canadian Citizen for 15 years. I sponsored her when we got married. Her Sister lives in the US and is married to US citizen (she is also US citizen)

Their mother would like to move here, but so as to immediately get out, she will initially be going to the US on Green card.

My question is: Can she go through sponsorship process from within the US while on their on a Green Card? We'd hate for her to have to apply from Trinidad and have to go back and forth.

Everything else we seem to have in order, we are aware of the "lottery" system now in place and are aware it may take a few times dependant on how many applicants there are.

Thanks in advance,

BG

Note you can't sponsor an in-law. So your wife must be the sponsor, you are just a co-signer. As such she is the one that must submit a lottery application.

Where her mom is residing does not really matter. Either way they will most likely process her application based on her country of citizenship, but there shouldn't be any reason she would need to return there during the process.

 

[BramptonGuy]

Note you can't sponsor an in-law. So your wife must be the sponsor, you are just a co-signer. As such she is the one that must submit a lottery application.

Where her mom is residing does not really matter. Either way they will most likely process her application based on her country of citizenship, but there shouldn't be any reason she would need to return there during the process.

Perfect. Sorry for the lack of clarity in my post, we are aware my wife would be the sponsor with me as a co-signer

Do we have any idea how may applications they are expecting for the 10000 places this year?

BG

 

[Rob_TO]

Perfect. Sorry for the lack of clarity in my post, we are aware my wife would be the sponsor with me as a co-signer

Do we have any idea how may applications they are expecting for the 10000 places this year?

BG

Seeing as they are letting anyone apply for lottery even if they don't qualify to sponsor, and we have no idea how diligently they will remove duplicate entries, I don't think anybody has any idea how many final lottery entries there will be.

 

[BramptonGuy]

Seeing as they are letting anyone apply for lottery even if they don't qualify to sponsor, and we have no idea how diligently they will remove duplicate entries, I don't think anybody has any idea how many final lottery entries there will be.

Hadn't thought of that, but I guess that might be one way people could try to game the system. Maybe multiple siblings applying separately to bring in the same parent(s).

 

[Rob_TO]

Hadn't thought of that, but I guess that might be one way people could try to game the system. Maybe multiple siblings applying separately to bring in the same parent(s).

Multiple siblings applying is perfectly fine. Whichever one is chosen though, must meet the income requirements on their own. So if sibling A wins the lottery, then sibling B or C can't submit an app. There is no advantage having anyone that doesn't qualify on their own to submit a lottery app as the names are not transferable.

Problem nobody knows the answer to, is what does CIC do with the lottery picks that are found ineligible or don't submit an app. Are those spots just wasted, or do they do a 2nd lottery to re-fill the spaces? And how many times is this done? Pretty sure they will not get up to 10K eligible apps received this year.