Information for determine your eligibility. Also find information on what can make you inadmissible for our program sponsorship.
“Family-linked” is the term we use for any refugee sponsored at the request of someone here in Manitoba, Canada, who will agree to support them for the one-year requirement after they arrive here as our guarantor (the “family-link guarantor”).
A $100 processing fee will be charged to the family-link guarantor for each IMM0008 form submitted. The Anglican Diocese of Rupert’s Land and the Roman Catholic Archiepiscopal Corporation of Winnipeg through whom Hospitality House sponsors, are permitted to levy this charge by the Government of Canada.
Preferably in Winnipeg, and intend to stay. We insist on this because this is the only way we can follow up on the case satisfactorily, both during the waiting period for them to arrive, and during the one year of our responsibility after arrival. This is also the expectation of those Manitobans who give financial support for our refugee sponsoring program (including the City of Winnipeg under whose Assurance Agreement all family-linked Winnipeg sponsorships will be registered); this is now also a requirement of the Canada Immigration office in Winnipeg.
Verified by a letter from the employer where requested, the means to be able to support the arriving refugee(s) and in the usual case, have been in Canada for at least two years. The family-link guarantor must sign an agreement with us agreeing to provide all necessary financial support.
That of a friend will do if you don't have one yourself. The family-link guarantor must advise us of any change in his or her address, phone number or email address; if we lose contact we may have to cancel the sponsorship.
The family-link guarantor must agree that if he or she moves out of Manitoba, we have the right, at our option, to cancel the sponsorship.
(Form IMM0008) under the Option 3 process, working with the sponsored refugee overseas to provide us with fully completed and signed forms (with photos - see separate instructions for photos) that we can then file with Immigration Canada in Winnipeg.
and must provide us with any changes in their circumstances so that we can inform Immigration Canada. If contact is lost, then the sponsorship will be cancelled.
Such a record is a bar to any future sponsoring partnership. Conversely, those with a good track record from past sponsorships will be preferred.
Family-link guarantors are not permitted to charge the refugees they sponsor for having sponsored them.
That of a friend will do, to facilitate keeping in touch with the family-link guarantor and with Hospitality House.
at which he or she can be contacted. (The Ethiopian Orthodox church in Nairobi is not an acceptable address to Canada's High Commission in Nairobi because of past problems with that address).
Change of address, phone number, email address, or change of family configuration / size (that is, getting married, divorced, having a baby etc.).
The sponsored refugee must work with his or her family-link guarantor to complete the IMM0008 form and its appendices.
Where possible be in compliance with the refugee requirements of the country of asylum.
Like Ukraine for example, because that could result in Canada rejecting the sponsorship.
Like Liberia for example. A record of too many rejections destroys the credibility of both the sponsoring organization and the entire Private Sponsorship of Refugees program of the Government of Canada.
The sponsorship is to live in Manitoba and not in another province of Canada.
The work of Hospitality House can only continue if it has the necessary financial support to do so. It now has a number of donors that provide its modest budget, but operating costs continue to be a challenge, and also those costs that arise from the "full sponsorship" cases that Hospitality House takes on. Family-link guarantors are encouraged to become Friends of Hospitality House and provide it with regular financial support. We are a registered charity and can issue receipts for income tax purposes.
When Hospitality House holds a fundraising event, the support of family-link guarantors will be much appreciated.
Hospitality House charges a modest annual maintenance fee to cover the management costs of a file.
