The “Lonely Canadian” Program: The Sponsorship Rule Almost Nobody Knows Exists If you’ve spent any time researching how to bring family to Canada, you’ve read about spousal sponsorship, parent and grandparent sponsorship, and dependent children. What you probably haven’t read about is the rule that exists for the person who has none of those relatives […]
Sponsoring a Relative With a Past Refusal? Here’s What Most People Get Wrong Every week, someone comes to us with a version of the same story: ‘My spouse/parent/sibling was refused a visa before for Canada or for another country entirely. Does that ruin our sponsorship application now?’ The honest answer is: it depends entirely on […]
When Love Isn’t Enough on Paper: Humanitarian and Compassionate Applications for Spouses and Partners There’s a particular kind of heartbreak I see in couples who come to me after being told, in one way or another, that their marriage doesn’t count not in their hearts, but on government form. They did everything right or they […]
