Posted on: 28-08-09 13:37:36
-document check list 14 on the prent sponsorhip guide:
-do you have to provide current job letters even if you have the option C form attached and you meet the income cut off?
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Originally posted by sonajatt
-document check list 14 on the prent sponsorhip guide:
-do you have to provide current job letters even if you have the option C form attached and you meet the income cut off?
No one has an answer for my simple question?
Yes, you do need to attach Option C print-out and the job letter from the current employer stating date since when you joined the organization, position you are holding and the salary package. The letter should be on the letter-head and authorised signatory's contact numbers should be there in the letter.
Best wishes
Praveen Kalra
Settlement Worker
Dixie Bloor Neighbourhood Centre
315-1420 Burnhamthorpe Rd. East
Mississauga, ON. L4X 2Z9
Phone: 905-629-1873 Extn. 244
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Originally posted by sonajatt
-document check list 14 on the prent sponsorhip guide:
-do you have to provide current job letters even if you have the option C form attached and you meet the income cut off?
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IF YOU ARE IN CANADA.....
***Your available income
Make sure you provide all the required information regarding the income you earned over the twelve months preceding the mailing of your application (questions 10 to 14) and, if you have a co-signer, the income he or she earned over that same period (questions 15 to 19).
Your available income is the amount of money you have earned in the period of 12 months preceding the date of your application, excluding any allowance or benefit of the type described in 12.B below.
To calculate your available income, you will need a document called an “Option-C Printout.” It is the equivalent of the last notice of assessment you would have received in respect of the most recent taxation year and will serve as a basis for the calculation of your income. This printout is issued by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA, formerly CCRA) and you can obtain it free of charge from CRA by calling 1 800 959-8281. Your spouse or common-law partner will also have to obtain an “Option-C Printout” if he or she is co-signing the undertaking.
If you are unable to obtain and produce an “Option-C Printout” or if your income reported in this document is less than your minimum necessary income, you will need to provide documentation establishing the amount of income you earned over the period of 12 months preceding the date of your application, such as pay stubs, if you are employed; a statement of business of activities, if you are self-employed; bank statements, if you have received interest income; statements or certificates, if you have other sources of income (investment, rental, pension, special benefits paid under the Employment Insurance Act, etc.). Your spouse or common-law partner will need to provide similar documentation if he or she is co-signing the undertaking and does not produce an “Option-C Printout.” or if the income reported on your spouse or common-law partner’s “Option-C Printout” combined with your available income is less than your minimum necessary income.
The office processing your application may ask you for additional information and documentation if it is not satisfied you have provided sufficient evidence to sustain your income calculation.
To calculate your earned income, complete question 12 (calculation based on the “Option-C Printout”) on the Financial Evaluation form with the help of the instructions below. If you are not producing an “Option-C Printout” or if your total income calculated as per question 12 of the Financial Evaluation form is less than your minimum necessary income, complete question 13 (calculation based on the preceding 12 months) on the Financial Evaluation form. The greater of the two amounts entered at 12.C and 13.C is your available income; enter this amount in box 14.
If your spouse or common-law partner is co-signing the undertaking, you will have to complete question 17 (calculation based on the “Option-C Printout”) and/or question 18 (calculation based on the preceding 12 months) to calculate his or her earned income. The greater of the two amounts entered at 17.C and 18.C will be your co-signer’s available income; enter this amount in box 19.
The total of boxes 14 and 19 will be the total income that is available to you to support your application to sponsor. This total must at least be equal to the amount of the minimum necessary income (see box 8) you need to sponsor.
11. Your situation over the last 12 months.......***
Canadian Immigration will appreciate all of these and anything MORE that you can provide to confirm that you are employed here in Canada Profitably.
So, give them all of what they ask for IF YOU CAN. If you do not provide the same, anticipate more correspondence and delays.
You now know....
Good Luck.
Freddie.
Is it gross or net income they look at ? I understand its gross ie before taxes .
If a person is self employed for 6 mos. , salary employed for 3 months and w/o work for 3 months , should he report anything beyond his 9 month's before tax income .... assuming he is not getting any EI ?
How much is the income requirement for a person having a family of 3 and wishing to sponsor both parents ?
One last thing - dividend earned during the year is generally distributed year end .... Should that be included in income for current year though it has not been declared / distributed ..... I assume not . If thats the case then can the dividend for last year be considered as income for last 12 months if it was disbursed with in last 12 months bu really was for the whole of last year ??
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Fido.
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Originally posted by Fido
Is it gross or net income they look at ? I understand its gross ie before taxes .
If a person is self employed for 6 mos. , salary employed for 3 months and w/o work for 3 months , should he report anything beyond his 9 month's before tax income .... assuming he is not getting any EI ?
How much is the income requirement for a person having a family of 3 and wishing to sponsor both parents ?
One last thing - dividend earned during the year is generally distributed year end .... Should that be included in income for current year though it has not been declared / distributed ..... I assume not . If thats the case then can the dividend for last year be considered as income for last 12 months if it was disbursed with in last 12 months bu really was for the whole of last year ??
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What they look for is Gross income. How you derive it could be shown in many different ways. You can add all of the above that you are mentioning and tabulate it in a nice format and add up all of the dollars and cents plus produce the Bank Statements etc., and bring it up as a total. It is left to your tact and ability of doing it and putting it on paper. All they look for is the "Option C Print out". You can do that and I am sure of it.
There is some thing called "Low Income Cut Off" for people who are within Canada and are making a decent living. Here are the tables for that: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/5196E10.asp
There are 800 series numbers for the Canada Revenue Agency and also the Mississauga Call Center which you can call and wait on line to get all of your questions answered.
All they are saying is : Provide as many details as you can to show them that you are doing very well here in Canada to sponsor your Parents and Family.
If you do have any doubts and also need help in filling out the requisite forms and get help from them, please visit one of the Immigrant Help Center near by your place and drop in and get all of the forms "completed" while you are there and go to sleep after that till you hear from the CHC in Mississauga, when they say it is approved and the files are now transferred to....
Can you take it up further, and does that help you and also answer your points raised.
Freddie.
EDIT: Call Center # : 1 888 242‑2100 (in Canada only)
Thanks Freddie ,
I was a trifle confused as there were 2 sets of calculations -- LICO ( low income ) and then the basic requirement .... I guess I will call the call center to confirm and resolve other doubts as well .... Thanks .
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Fido.
