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How financial benefits affect family sponsorship

If you collect the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), you’re still eligible to sponsor your spouse, parent, grandparent, child or other relative as long as you meet all the requirements to be a sponsor.

CERB isn’t considered social assistance. Collecting CERB won’t make you ineligible to sponsor.

EI and CERB won’t cause you to default

If the person you sponsored collects Employment Insurance (EI) or the CERB during the undertaking period, it will not cause you to default.

However, if the person you sponsored collects social assistance during the undertaking period, you have to repay the amount. If you don’t, you’ll be in default of your undertaking.

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How to link PR application under myCIC?

  1. Make sure your Ecas Status is available before linking to myCIC. ( you cannot link to myCIC if Ecas not available).

  2. After you login to MyCIC, you click on Link App to this Account button.

      • Choose Permanent Residence in category &

      • Family Class (Parents & Grandparents) in sub-category. This will open all the required fields you will need to fill up.

  3. Application Details: use suitable option . if you don't have File# use UCI # and Family name of Principal Applicant OR family name , Given name and DOB option and enter Principal Applicant details.

  4. Application Personal Information: Passport or Place of birth . In the passport section, enter the info as seen in the originally sent passport of PA. you can use passport # and date or place.

  5. Other Application Information: Where does the applicant intend to live in Canada? Match the city and province name you entered in the original application. and PA maritial status.

  6. count # of Family member = [ Sponsor + if Cosigner ] do not count kids + [PA + if Dep]

  7. open Link to see more details.

The system will only link an application if the information you enter matches the application exactly. Make sure you don’t have any extra spaces before or after what you type into each field.

Question : When trying to link my application to my online account, it says there are no matches. What’s going on?


How to link PR card Application under myCIC ( After Landing)

  • Login to your mycic account

  • Go to the page "View application you have submitted” which in your case is approved. Below the section you will find "Add link to the existing application to your account ".

  • Click this and select PR Card.

  • Select UCI & Family name etc. . (Please note write your name, last name birth place as is written in COPR. That is if in COPR it's in capital then it should be written in capital letters.)

  • Follow it as was earlier when you opened your myCIC account.

  • Your PR Card application will be linked to your existing account.

  • Similarly you will have to add Dependent account also to this account.

In this account you will get status of your PR Card status as to when profile updated & when it's Approved and mailed.