Program delivery update: Applications under family classes – Assessing the sponsor
This section contains policy, procedures and guidance used by IRCC staff. It is posted on the department’s website as a courtesy to stakeholders.
June 23, 2022
Updated instructions are available to assist officers assessing the following:
- foreign sources of income
- counting family size, including changes in family size
- family size and family class applications with separated spouses
These changes reflect current Regulations. In addition, instructions have been updated to assist officers about how to process sponsors who resided in Quebec at the time of filing, but who subsequently relocate outside of Quebec, and how to apply the temporary public policy concerning applications for permanent residence as a member of the family class whose sponsor must meet a minimum income requirement in 2021.
Officers are encouraged to consult the following subheadings in the instructions; they are either new or have been substantially updated:
- Multiple applications
- Foreign sources of income
- Persons counted in family size
- How to count family size with separated spouses
- How to calculate family size for parent and grandparent applications on a year-by-year basis
- Quebec case at time of filing, but sponsor relocates outside of Quebec
- Income requirements for sponsoring parents and grandparents
- Application of the temporary public policies of the minimum income requirements for the 2020 and 2021 taxation years
- Co-signers
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