{"id":58,"date":"2019-08-26T22:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nckcanada.com\/2019\/08\/26\/spouse-partner-or-child\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T01:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T17:53:59","slug":"spouse-partner-or-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Spouse, partner or child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at least 18 years old<\/li>\n<li>are a Canadian citizen\/permanent resident, or a person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/I-5\/\">Indian Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li>are able to prove that you\u2019re not receiving social assistance for reasons other than a disability<\/li>\n<li>can provide for the basic needs of any persons you want to sponsor<\/li>\n<li>No income requirement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Principal Applicant<\/strong><strong> (<\/strong>spouse,\u00a0common-law partner,\u00a0conjugal partner\u00a0or\u00a0dependent children)<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Your spouse<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Your spouse can be either sex and must be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>legally married to you<\/li>\n<li>at least 18 years old<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Your common-law partner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>isn\u2019t<\/strong>\u00a0legally married to you, can be either sex<\/li>\n<li>is at least 18 years old<\/li>\n<li>has been living with you for at least 12 consecutive months, meaning you\u2019ve been living together continuously for 1 year in a conjugal relationship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Your conjugal partner:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>isn\u2019t legally married to you or in a common-law relationship with you<\/li>\n<li>can be either sex<\/li>\n<li>at least 18 years old<\/li>\n<li>has been in a relationship with you for at least 1 year<\/li>\n<li>lives outside Canada<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t live with you in their country of residence or marry you because of significant legal\u00a0<strong>and<\/strong>\u00a0immigration reasons such as<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>their marital status<\/li>\n<li>their sexual orientation<\/li>\n<li>persecution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Dependent children<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Children qualify as dependents if they meet\u00a0<strong>both<\/strong>\u00a0of these requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>under<\/strong>\u00a022 years old<\/li>\n<li>don\u2019t have a spouse or common law partner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Children 22 years old or older qualify as dependents if they meet\u00a0both\u00a0of these requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are unable to financially support themselves because of a mental or physical condition<\/li>\n<li>depended on their parents for financial support since before the age of 22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Undertaking Length:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Spouse\/Common-Law\/ Conjugal Partner: 3 years<\/li>\n<li>Dependent Child: 10 years or the day the child becomes 25, whichever first<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsor at least 18 years old are a Canadian citizen\/pe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nckcanada.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}