Sponsor parents who convicted crime

[Pita123]

Hello. I’m asking for my friend. She is the permenant resident of Canada and want to sponsor her parents. Before, they applied for visitor visa but got refused twice because officer doesnt believe they will leave canada after their visit. Recently, her mother was convicted for tax envision and false tax documents and sentenced 2 year in jail which she has served 9 months. Will my friend still able to sponsor her mother? Or only her father?

 

[YVR123]

Hello. I’m asking for my friend. She is the permenant resident of Canada and want to sponsor her parents. Before, they applied for visitor visa but got refused twice because officer doesnt believe they will leave canada after their visit. Recently, her mother was convicted for tax envision and false tax documents and sentenced 2 year in jail which she has served 9 months. Will my friend still able to sponsor her mother? Or only her father?

She likely need to consult an immigration lawyer on this. I am not sure about the eqv criminal code/charges that her mother is convicted of. So if she is inadmissible, your friend cannot sponsor both of them. For parents sponorship, she cannot just apply for 1 of the 2. Both parents need to pass medical, criminal and background checked to get PR approval.

 

[armoured]

... and false tax documents

At minimum it's going to mean very strict scrutiny of any documents she provides.

She really may wish to consult a lawyer.

 

[PMM]

HI

She likely need to consult an immigration lawyer on this. I am not sure about the eqv criminal code/charges that her mother is convicted of. So if she is inadmissible, your friend cannot sponsor both of them. For parents sponorship, she cannot just apply for 1 of the 2. Both parents need to pass medical, criminal and background checked to get PR approval.

1. If one parent is inadmissible, you can't sponsor the other, both are inadmissible.
2. The mother is criminally inadmissible, and can't apply for rehabilitation until 5 years after the completion of the sentence. Tax evasion in Canada is punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years.

• Criminality
  (2) A foreign national is inadmissible on grounds of criminality for
  • (a) having been convicted in Canada of an offence under an Act of Parliament punishable by way of indictment, or of two offences under any Act of Parliament not arising out of a single occurrence;
  • (b) having been convicted outside Canada of an offence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament, or of two offences not arising out of a single occurrence that, if committed in Canada, would constitute offences under an Act of Parliament;
  • (c) committing an act outside Canada that is an offence in the place where it was committed and that, if committed in Canada, would constitute an indictable offence under an Act of Parliament; or
  • (d) committing, on entering Canada, an offence under an Act of Parliament prescribed by regulations.
• Marginal note:Application