Immigration Canada

Family Class Immigration

Canadian citizens and permanent residents living in Canada, 18 years of age or older, may sponsor close relatives or family members including spouses, common-law/same-sex partners, conjugal partners who cannot live together and dependent children applying outside of Canada who want to become permanent residents of Canada.

Eligibility

To qualify as a member of a Family Class the principal applicant must be a sponsor's:
Spouse 16 years of age or older;
Fiance(e);
Dependent child(ren) including a child adopted before age of 22, who are:
under age 19 and unmarried; or
have been continuously enrolled and in attendance as a full time student in educational institution and financially supported by their parents since turning 22 (or from the date of marriage if married before the age of 22);
unable to support themselves due to a medical conditions and are financially supported by their parents.
Parent or grandparent
Brother, sister, nephew, niece, or grandchild who is an orphan, under age 22 and unmarried;
Child under age of 22 who will be adopted in Canada and who is an orphan, or an abandoned;
Child whose parents cannot be identified, or child who has been placed with a child welfare authority for adoption because:
a child was born out of wedlock;
the child's parents are separated;
one of the child's parents is deceased.
Relative, regardless of the age or relationship to the sponsor, where the sponsor does not have any relatives (a spouse, son, daughter, mother, father, brother, sister, grandparent, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew) but the relative which sponsor intents to sponsor.
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