Canada created a new PR pathway for Sudanese citizens amidst the existing conflict in Sudan. IRCC recently declared a new immigration pathway for family members affected by this conflict. The immigration department recently stated that as of February 27 this year, it would welcome at least 3,250 applications from families or primary applicants. This PR pathway is a fresh sponsorship pathway for families that will enable applicants to acquire Canadian permanent residence. According to IRCC, it will remove the fee for PR and offer free settlement services to those who acquire PR through this pathway.
Canada created a new PR pathway for Sudanese citizens – Who are eligible to apply for this?
To gain eligibility for this new pathway, applicants must fulfill the following criteria:
- They must demonstrate that they have been residing in Sudan as of April 15th last year.
- They have no alternate country to return to apart from Sudan or Canada.
- Being a child, sibling, grandchild, parent, or grandparent of an anchor who fulfills the eligibility requirements.
- Submit a statutory declaration through their anchor confirming the following:
- They look forward to assisting you and your accompanying family members for a year.
- Your anchor must not take any financial support from you or your family.
- Their plan must not be to reside in Quebec but instead in some other province or territory.
- Not admissible due to other reasons besides financial ones.
Apart from the above reasons, individuals might be eligible for the new pathway based on the following circumstances:
- Their common-law partner or spouse is the child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, or sibling of an anchor who qualifies and is prepared to assist you.
- They are able to fulfill all eligibility requirements.
An extended family member who consents to assist you or your family during the initial year in Canada will be referred to as an anchor. They will assist you in fulfilling your necessities, including food, clothing, housing, money support, etc.
What is the eligibility for becoming an anchor?
An anchor must fulfill the following requirements:
- Become 18 years or above;
- Hold Canadian citizenship or permanent residence;
- Reside in Canada except for Quebec;
- Demonstrate possessing sufficient financial funds to fulfill the financial needs;
However, an anchor must not be any of the below circumstances:
- They must not be in the middle of withdrawing from their PR or Canadian citizenship status.
- Not to be imprisoned or in jail.
- They must be receiving a removal order in Canada.
- Subject to bankruptcy.
- Must not receive social assistance for reasons apart from disability.
- They must be convicted of any criminal activity per public policy.
- Being incapable of meeting their legal obligation to pay the government of Canada any money they owe. This includes deferred payments on an immigration loan, performance bond, or any other amount of money.
- Not being able to fulfill obligations, like sponsorship obligations, or paying any debts they owe to the Canadian government.
Process to apply for this pathway
Individuals must submit the new PR pathway application through the PR portal. They must be able to submit all relevant documents and forms on this portal, including the anchor’s essential documents and forms. However, if there’s an incomplete application, the authorities might return it to the individual. In such situations, the applicants must re-apply, keeping in mind that the pathway must be open.
Sudanese citizens in Canada
The 2021 Census Data claims that 17,485 individuals in Canada belonged to Sudan, implying that their country of origin was Sudan. Of these, 4,690 were recent immigrants who arrived in Canada and reportedly had Sudan as their birth country.
If you seek to immigrate to Canada, you can access all relevant details of the process through Make Home Canada’s immigration consultants. Write to us at [email protected].
