- The authorities will typically receive family class sponsorships on or after August 01, 2014
- These could include dependent children as:
- Principal applicants or,
- Accompanying family members
- The officers would need to return such family class sponsorships they receive that use the old IMM 1344 forms to the sponsor
- The officers would need to return these applications along with a letter of explanation
- The letter must notify the applicants that they would need to resubmit the application using the new IMM 1344
- Effective August 01, 2014, designated officers at the Case Processing Centre in Mississauga (CPC-M) could refuse applications for permanent residence
- They could refuse the applications where:
- The principal applicant is a child, who does not meet the definition of a dependent and,
- The sponsor does not elect to forward the application to a visa office, if the authorities deem the sponsor to be ineligible
- Officers would need to forward certain permanent residence applications to the appropriate visa office for processing
- These applications could be cases which exhibit an indication that a dependent child (aged 19 years or over) might be financially dependent on a parent because of a physical or a mental condition
- The Case Processing Centre in Mississauga (CPC-M) would continue to forward permanent resident applications to the appropriate visa office, where the principal applicant includes the details of a child
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