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When applying for the sponsorship, you need to answer where your parents currently reside. If that address is not in the country of their nationality, you have to state clearly whether they have been at that address for more than 1 year.
To my understanding, this is to evaluate whether your case can be processed in a visa office outside of your parents' home country. I somehow remember I once verified this with CIC call centre. It was a while ago so my memory could be inaccurate.
Condition #2:
I am pretty sure about this one. Before approving my sponsorship, a CIC agent called me specifically to verify if my parents were still in Canada. I explained that they were in China at the time, but when they left they had lived in Canada for much longer than 1 year (also met condition #1). Unforturnately, she made it clear that in this situation, my parents had to apply through Beijing according to CIC policy.
Please also note that if your parents once leave Canada and come back later, they would lose whatever time they accumulated during the first period (confirmed by an agent at CIC call centre).
As I said, it is just my 2 cents. The best place to ask is CIC, and even so, their policies sometimes are not cast in stone; very often people got contradictary information from different resources. So my advice is take it easy and let it be. As long as they keep on processing the cases and don't stall the process again, things will be fine.
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When applying for the sponsorship, you need to answer where your parents currently reside. If that address is not in the country of their nationality, you have to state clearly whether they have been at that address for more than 1 year.
To my understanding, this is to evaluate whether your case can be processed in a visa office outside of your parents' home country. I somehow remember I once verified this with CIC call centre. It was a while ago so my memory could be inaccurate.
Condition #2:
I am pretty sure about this one. Before approving my sponsorship, a CIC agent called me specifically to verify if my parents were still in Canada. I explained that they were in China at the time, but when they left they had lived in Canada for much longer than 1 year (also met condition #1). Unforturnately, she made it clear that in this situation, my parents had to apply through Beijing according to CIC policy.
Please also note that if your parents once leave Canada and come back later, they would lose whatever time they accumulated during the first period (confirmed by an agent at CIC call centre).
As I said, it is just my 2 cents. The best place to ask is CIC, and even so, their policies sometimes are not cast in stone; very often people got contradictary information from different resources. So my advice is take it easy and let it be. As long as they keep on processing the cases and don't stall the process again, things will be fine.
Good luck!更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net