LONELY CANADIAN

A Canadian citizen or permanent resident who has no relatives who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents and who no relatives can guarantee may choose to sponsor a relative.
Relatives in “no relatives, no relatives that can be guaranteed” refer to spouses, common-law partners, factual partners, sons or daughters, parents, grandparents, siblings, uncles (parents and siblings), and deaf children ( Children of brothers and sisters).
Eligible applicants can sponsor farther relatives (such as cousins) and only require blood or adoption relationships.

The situation where parents are still alive

Most single new immigrants have no relatives in Canada, and other relatives cannot guarantee. The key is whether the parents are “pro-guarantes relatives.”
Guaranteed parents are much more demanding than guaranteed relatives (requires income for the past 3 years and income is 1.3 times that of LICO). As long as the guarantor does not meet the income requirements of the sponsoring parents, the parents are not considered to be “guarantees of relatives”, and the applicant may still guarantee other relatives through the project. This principle was established in the case of Sendwa v. Canada, 2016 FC 216.
However, if the guarantor meets the income requirement only because the parent may not meet the applicant’s conditions (such as physical or other reasons), the applicant is not a “lonely Canadian”. This principle was established in the case of Bousaleh v. Canada, 2018 FCA 143.

Income requirements and guarantee period

To guarantee a relative, the income requirement is to meet the LICO and only look at the current (the past 1 year) income. When counting the number of people, it is necessary to count the number of guarantors and the relatives of the guaranteed relatives.
The guarantee period is 10 years from the date of registration of relatives. In the past 10 years, if you have to guarantee other people (for example, if you have enough income to guarantee your parents), you still need to count the number of relatives.