Sponsoring Un-examined Children Pilot Program Requirements

[Rajpal (Admin)]

The ‘Pilot for Excluded Family Members” which began on September 09, 2019, exempts some people from the conditions of IRPR section 117(9)(d). This means that as per the pilot program, family members who are eligible under this pilot can be sponsored through the Family Class category even if they were unexamined. In order to be eligible to be sponsored under the pilot program, the sponsor must have become a permanent resident himself/herself through:

– the Refugee Class (the person was resettled as a refugee, or the person was recognized as a refugee/Protected Person by the Immigration and Refugee Board or in a Pre-Removal Risk Assessment, or the person was a family member of such a person), OR

– the Family Class, as a spouse, common-law partner or dependent child (including the Spouse or Common-Law Partner in Canada Class)

In your case, since you became a PR through the refugee class, you will be eligible to sponsor your children under the new pilot program.

For further information about the pilot program, please click on the following link:

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/results-by-topic.asp?st=14.2.5