Once you decide you'd like to sponsor a refugee family, one of the first things to be done will be to assemble a Core Team. Each sponsoring group must function with a minimum of five dedicated members who will oversee the sponsorship…

A Minimum Support Calculator for sponsors has been created by the Canadian government to calculate the financial support required. On top of the IRCC minimum amount, your SAH will add slightly higher monthly support and a contingency…

Settlement planning is one of the more time consuming tasks of a sponsorship undertaking. IRCC needs to see that every facet of resettlement has been considered and that there is a plan in place with enough flexibility that the task will…

The paperwork required to sponsor a refugee has 2 components: Sponsorship Group Forms, and Refugee (Family) Forms. Within "Sponsorship Group Forms", there are also 2 components: documents required by the SAH detailed in 1. below, and forms…

After submission to the SAH will get an email confirming the application has been received. The first stage is a completeness check. Once the application has been deemed complete a "G number" will be assigned to the file. Now, the…