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Community Sponsorship
Community Sponsorship is a way for local communities, civil society organizations, faith groups, and businesses, to be directly involved in helping refugees settle in the Canada. Community sponsors provide emotional and practical support to empower resettled families to rebuild their lives and to become self-sufficient members of their new community. Being a sponsor can benefit the local community, through enabling the generosity of local people and creating new bonds within the community. The steps involved in this program enables community groups to take the lead role in resettling refugee families. It explains the process, the criteria prospective sponsors must meet, and how to apply.
private sponsorship
What is private sponsorship of refugees? This is a resettlement of a refugee or refugee family to Canada where the financial cost and the settlement support are provided by private groups or organizations for a period of 12 months. This (12 months) is the amount of time that CIC will want to see that your group is capable of financially supporting and providing all of those settlement support. Orientation to a new community, setting up schools for the children if it’s a refugee family medical healthcare since the refugees when they do arrive in can they will be permanent residents and so that comes with all their responsibilities as well as rights as being a permanent resident in Canada.
Group of Five
A Group of Five (G5) is five or more Canadian citizens or permanent residents who have arranged to sponsor a refugee living abroad to come to Canada.
G5s may only sponsor applicants who are recognized as refugees by either the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) or a foreign state. The principal applicant MUST already have refugee status. Having refugee status means that an authorized body has found that an individual meets its refugee definition. This authorized body can either be the UNHCR or the government of the country (i.e., foreign state) where the refugee is now living.
You must include the document proving recognized refugee status with the refugee sponsorship application you submit.
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