Sponsoring a family member
The sponsorship application, the relationship evaluation, the declarations about a common-law union, and the checklists that go with each.
Somebody in Canada applying to sponsor a spouse, partner, child or relative. This is one of the longest packages IRCC publishes.
The sponsorship application
The sponsorship agreement and undertaking, filed by the person in Canada.
The relationship information
A separate evaluation form about the relationship, and a statutory declaration where the union is common-law rather than a marriage.
Background declarations
Schedule A covers where the applicant has lived, studied and worked, with no gaps allowed in the dates.
The checklists
There is a checklist for the permanent residence application and another for the spouse-and-children package specifically.
Worth knowing
Whether you can sponsor somebody, what income is required, and how a relationship is assessed are all eligibility questions. We do not answer them and would be wrong to try. We fill in the forms you name from the details you give us.
The same details reappear across every form in the package. That repetition is the whole reason this is worth doing from one description rather than by hand six times.
Fill in the copy you have
Already downloaded it? Bring that file and we'll fill it in. It works the same for a form nobody publishes: a benefits enrolment, an employer's payroll form, anything with boxes in it.