Travelling while in process to sponsor a dependent child - problem?

[SoithAsalOlc]

Hey everyone, so my partner who is PR is sponsoring his daughter to come to Canada. She is 21 and Brazilian and we applied June 4th of 2021. Something has come up and there is a good chance that my partner and myself will need to go to Brazil for 3 or 4 months in November or December this year to support his family with a few things. Will this be a possible issue or affect the sponsorship process? I know for spousal sponsorship it could cause some issues, but I was not sure for sponsoring a dependent child.

Any support is welcome! Thank you!

 

[scylla]

Hey everyone, so my partner who is PR is sponsoring his daughter to come to Canada. She is 21 and Brazilian and we applied June 4th of 2021. Something has come up and there is a good chance that my partner and myself will need to go to Brazil for 3 or 4 months in November or December this year to support his family with a few things. Will this be a possible issue or affect the sponsorship process? I know for spousal sponsorship it could cause some issues, but I was not sure for sponsoring a dependent child.

Any support is welcome! Thank you!

Yes, there are unfortunately some risks in leaving. Your partner needs to be living in Canada to sponsor his child for PR.

When does the daughter turn 22?

 

[SoithAsalOlc]

Yes, there are unfortunately some risks in leaving. Your partner needs to be living in Canada to sponsor his child for PR.

When does the daughter turn 22?

What are the risks? It will only be temporary, and we will have tickets to go there and back. She turns 22 in December.

 

[scylla]

What are the risks? It will only be temporary, and we will have tickets to go there and back. She turns 22 in December.

We have seen IRCC refuse applications if the sponsor leaves for too long. 3-4 months is starting to get on the longer side. Can you cut the trip shorter?

This is your one shot to sponsor the daughter so this application has to be accepted. Once she turns 22, it will no longer be possible to sponsor her.

 

[SoithAsalOlc]

We have seen IRCC refuse applications if the sponsor leaves for too long. 3-4 months is starting to get on the longer side. Can you cut the trip shorter?

This is your one shot to sponsor the daughter so this application has to be accepted. Once she turns 22, it will no longer be possible to sponsor her.

We could possibly make it 2.5 to 3 months but we couldn’t go shorter than that. Can you give me some examples of times that IRCC has denied application? I would understand 6 months or a year, but 3 months does not seem long. But honestly who knows with IRCC.

And yes we know. This is our second chance. We included her as a dependent on the sponsorship but due to an error on the immigration side she was not included. We started an appeal but it seemed like it would take way too long and it would go past her 22nd birthday so we are applying again through sponsorship.

 

[canuck78]

We could possibly make it 2.5 to 3 months but we couldn’t go shorter than that. Can you give me some examples of times that IRCC has denied application? I would understand 6 months or a year, but 3 months does not seem long. But honestly who knows with IRCC.

And yes we know. This is our second chance. We included her as a dependent on the sponsorship but due to an error on the immigration side she was not included. We started an appeal but it seemed like it would take way too long and it would go past her 22nd birthday so we are applying again through sponsorship.

The requirement is that you be in Canada to sponsor. A short vacation of 2-3 weeks seems to be overlooked but if IRCC realizes you have been gone for months we have seen both spousal sponsorship and dependent sponsorship being cancelled. The forum search function makes it hard to locate the examples but some get lucky and IRCC doesn’t realize they have been out of the country for so long but others don’t. You are talking about being out of Canada for a significant amount of time compared to the sponsorship period. It seems as though you must leave so unfortunately you run the risk of being denied.

 

[SoithAsalOlc]

The requirement is that you be in Canada to sponsor. A short vacation of 2-3 weeks seems to be overlooked but if IRCC realizes you have been gone for months we have seen both spousal sponsorship and dependent sponsorship being cancelled. The forum search function makes it hard to locate the examples but some get lucky and IRCC doesn’t realize they have been out of the country for so long but others don’t. You are talking about being out of Canada for a significant amount of time compared to the sponsorship period. It seems as though you must leave so unfortunately you run the risk of being denied.

I see. Would you be able to link these examples? It seems that everyone is saying a different time period as out of the country. Also not sure what you mean about the sponsorship period? IRCC is still processing the applications from September 2019 - I have a feeling her process will take at least 1 year, maybe 2.

 

[scylla]

We could possibly make it 2.5 to 3 months but we couldn’t go shorter than that. Can you give me some examples of times that IRCC has denied application? I would understand 6 months or a year, but 3 months does not seem long. But honestly who knows with IRCC.

And yes we know. This is our second chance. We included her as a dependent on the sponsorship but due to an error on the immigration side she was not included. We started an appeal but it seemed like it would take way too long and it would go past her 22nd birthday so we are applying again through sponsorship.

Let me try to find some of the discussions with refusals.

The difficult thing here is that there's something published on the IRCC end that says what is "too long". But once you're into a few months, there's a risk that IRCC may have a problem with that. Also quite a chance it won't be an issue at all.

It sounds like you have no choice but to travel. Not traveling or cutting the trip of a few weeks isn't an option. So my two cents is to travel and see if IRCC says anything. When and if it happens, you can deal with it.

 

[SoithAsalOlc]

Let me try to find some of the discussions with refusals.

The difficult thing here is that there's something published on the IRCC end that says what is "too long". But once you're into a few months, there's a risk that IRCC may have a problem with that. Also quite a chance it won't be an issue at all.

It sounds like you have no choice but to travel. Not traveling or cutting the trip of a few weeks isn't an option. So my two cents is to travel and see if IRCC says anything. When and if it happens, you can deal with it.

Please do, thank you so much for this. We will see the best way to work around this, but unfortunately we will have to travel a bit. I really appreciate the support here - honestly.

If something happens would we just have to go through an appeal process? Also, what does IRCC say is too long? I tried looking but could not find anything on the site.

 

[scylla]

Please do, thank you so much for this. We will see the best way to work around this, but unfortunately we will have to travel a bit. I really appreciate the support here - honestly.

If something happens would we just have to go through an appeal process? Also, what does IRCC say is too long? I tried looking but could not find anything on the site.

Yes, if IRCC decided to refuse then you would need to appeal and hope the appeal might be approved. It would be too late at that point to start a new sponsorship application since your daughter will have aged out by then.

I'm not aware of anything on the IRCC website that specifically states how long is too long.

 

[devamm19]

Please do, thank you so much for this. We will see the best way to work around this, but unfortunately we will have to travel a bit. I really appreciate the support here - honestly.

If something happens would we just have to go through an appeal process? Also, what does IRCC say is too long? I tried looking but could not find anything on the site.

Hi - did you travel and did it impact the application?