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First, you are not the “sponsor”. Hospitality House is the sponsor through the Anglican Diocese of Rupert’s Land. You are the “guarantor” of our sponsorship of the people you are proposing, responsible for supporting and settling them upon arrival. Second, while we like to be fair and take no more than five cases proposed by anyone (so that others may also propose refugees for our sponsorship), we recognize the composition of families overseas and the ages of their members may mean it will take more than five sponsorships to include all the family – and we don’t want to break up families that are refugees together. And third, “how many” is best answered by you. How many can you afford to support at the same time? What if they all arrive on the same plane? You have contracted with us to provide all necessary support. Their expenses are your responsibility. We will hold you to this obligation. this obligation.

Whether you are phoning from Edmonton, or Ottawa, or Calgary, or anywhere else outside of Manitoba, we cannot sponsor for you. We can only sponsor for “family-links” who live in Manitoba, and preferably in Winnipeg. First, this is an expectation of Canada Immigration. Second, it is a requirement of the Winnipeg Private Refugee Sponsorship Assurance Program under which all our family-linked cases are registered. Third, it is the only way we can practically follow up on the success of resettlement once the refugee arrives. If you live outside Manitoba you must look for a sponsoring answer in your area. cum accusamus ullam voluptatibus commodi numquam, error, est. Ea, consequatur.

We don’t know. Once we file an application with Canada Immigration, it enters their system. We have no “window” on a file’s progress. Files destined for the Canadian office in Nairobi will not likely have anything happen to them for three or four years, other than an acknowledgement that they are there. Other embassies have shorter wait times, but all are burdened with challenging case loads. No one tells us what’s happening, and our questions are not encouraged because answering them takes time away from the critical work of processing applications – and slows down the whole process. Please reserve your questions for critical matters.

Please understand that we are dealing with hundreds of files and thousands of names. Many are similar. We get hundreds of phone calls and emails every week. It is very difficult to remember any particular name or file without looking it up. To do that it is most helpful if you have the file number that has been assigned by Canada Immigration to the case, once it is registered by them; we supply all guarantors/ family links with this number when we know it. Sometimes we are asked to look up a file based upon the “B” number assigned by the Canadian office overseas, and sometimes we can do this. But please remember that no one automatically gives us the overseas file number, and we are dependent upon accidental communications from abroad or the family-link here for knowledge of this useful number.