Stay positive my friend, I too am in the same boat as you. I was eligible to apply for parents sponsorship based on 2011 income, but they froze the program then. Now when they re-opened it, they introduced a 3 year financial proof clause, which I meet only for 2011, 2012 and 2013, not for 2010. I took a chance and submitted the application anyway, lets see what they do with my application.
CIC will be counting only
complete applications towards the 5000 cap, and I believe we will know about the cap being reached by the end of this month/Feb. So if my application is considered incomplete, I should expect it back within a month and we can try again in 2015.
What bothers me
slightly about this new guide is that, say I waited till March/April 2014 to get my NOA (assuming the CAP was still not filled up by then), then they have not even bothered to provide us the Federal Minimum Income figures for 2013 for us to check if we are eligible to sponsor for yr 2013 or not.
In any case, lets hope for the best!
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