Application for Authorization & Statutory Declaration to Unite with Extended Family during COVID-19 (IMM 0006)
Your completed Statutory Declaration as part of your Application to unite with your extended family during COVID-19 (IMM 0006) will need to be commissioned in order to be accepted by the Government of Canada. Dotted Line Notary can help you commission it.
What is it?
COVID-19 has changed everyone's lives around the world. For example, like many jurisdictions around the world, there have been travel restrictions placed on all non-essential discretionary travel to Canada from abroad.
While all Canadians and permanent residents can come home to Canada, there are restrictions on foreign nationals.
This has greatly affected those who are in Canada and who have a loved one who is a foreign national currently outside of Canada. To ease the impact and to reunite family members during COVID-19, the Government of Canada has created an authorization process to unite with family members who are currently outside of Canada and who are not already eligible to enter Canada.
Immediate Family Member
If you would like to unite with your immediate family member (spouse, common-law partner, dependent child, dependent child of a dependent child, parent / step-parent, or guardian or tutor) you do NOT need written authorization but must meet other health and regular visa requirements. Your immedate family member must also be able to show documentary proof of their relationship with you.
Extended Family Member
If you would like to unite with extended family members (exclusive dating relationship, adult child, grandchild, sibling, half- / step-sibling, grandparent, etc.) you must obtain written authorization from the Government of Canada by completing the Application for Authorization and Statutory Declaration for the Purposes of Entry into Canada for Extended Family Members COVID-19 Emergency Orders in Council under the Quarantine Act (IMM 0006). The form can be downloaded here.
The steps to obtain written authorization are as follows:
The family member who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident fills out the application for authorization part of the form.
The family member in Canada sends the filled out form to the family member abroad to sign.
Once the family member who is abroad signs they should send the form back to the family member in Canada.
The family member in Canada then must sign the solemn declaration part of the form before a notary public.
The family member in Canada must then send the completed and signed form to the family member who is abroad.
Once the family member who is abroad has a copy of the completed and signed form it can use it as evidence of your relationship with the family member in Canada and you can request written authorization from the Government of Canada. Find out here how to request written authorization.
Once written authorization is received and travel arrangements to Canada have been made, a copy of the completed form and written authorization should be brought with you to enter into Canada.
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