Sponsorship Undertaking and Settlement Plan: Groups of Five (IMM 5670)

Type the following for each sponsor:

• family names
• given names
• date of birth
• Unique Client Identifier (UCI), if applicable and if known. This number is found on official documents you get from IRCC, if you have immigrated to Canada. It can be either eight or ten digits (Example: 0000-0000 or 00000-00000). If you do not have or do not know your UCI number, type "N/A"
• relationship to the PA, if applicable. If it is not applicable, type "N/A"
• address
• contact details: home, business or cell phone number and email address

To add a sponsor (group member), select "+" symbol beside "Add Group Member". To remove a sponsor (group member), select the "-" symbol.

All names and personal information must match your travel documents.

• Type all names and biographic information exactly as shown on the PA and family member’s passports or travel documents.
• Also make sure the biographic information matches between the Generic Application Form [IMM 0008] and The Sponsorship Undertaking and Settlement Plan – Group of Five (IMM 5670) forms.
• If there are any discrepancies, the application may be returned.

All persons who do not meet the definition of family member as per IRPR should have their own sponsorship and permanent residence applications.

• If you submit the name of a person in this section that is not a family member as per the regulations, the application may be returned.

Principal applicant

Type the:

• family name
• given name(s)
• gender
• date of birth
• place and country of birth, including the name of the town or city
• marital status
• country of citizenship
• other citizenship, if applicable

Family Members

Before you complete this section, check to see who qualifies as a family member.

If you have more family members to add, follow the instructions below:

• if you check "yes", more fields will appear
  • click the "add additional family member" button to add more family members
  • click the "remove this family member" button to remove a family member
• for each family member, type or select from the drop down menu:
  • family name
  • given names
  • gender
  • date of birth
  • place and country of birth, including the name of the town or city
  • marital status
  • relationship to the PA
  • check the box to if the family member will be accompanying or non-accompanying when the PA travels to Canada
  • citizenship
  • other citizenship, if applicable

• Fill in this section if you want to link multiple sponsorship applications.
  • Applications can be linked if applicants plan to live in one household or as a family unit in Canada. This may include caregivers or de facto dependents (who do not meet the definition of a family member as per IRPR).
  • Efforts will be made to have linked applications processed at the same time.
• Listing applications that do not need to travel together will delay processing of your applications.
  • Only link applications when applicants must all travel together to Canada.
  • The information you fill in must be identical to the biographic information that is on the linked application. If not, ROC-O might not be able to link the applications together.

Type the:

• family name of the other PA
• given names
• date of birth
• application number (G number), if known

Click "add application" to add another linked application. Click "remove application" to remove a linked application.

Settlement Plan

• Be as precise and detailed as possible.
  • Do not leave any questions blank.
  • Not applicable (N/A) is not an acceptable answer to the narrative questions.
  • Note that the officer assessing your application does not know you and cannot make assumptions about the services you will be providing to the refugees.
• Each settlement plan must address the unique needs of the PA and their dependents.
  • Include details of your plan to address the unique needs of the PA and all their dependents whether or not they are accompanying the PA to Canada.
  • Your answers should not be copied from other settlement plans.
• Consider any financial and non-financial obligations already committed for other sponsorships.
  • If you are currently sponsoring other refugees, in a cover letter list these sponsorships.
  • Provide an explanation as to how much money you have contributed for each sponsorship and how you will be able to manage your time to provide settlement support to all the refugees you are sponsoring and the refugees you want to sponsor under this application.
• Include the settlement needs of every refugee applicant named on the Sponsorship Undertaking.
  • The settlement plan must include the needs on every named applicant, even if they will not come to Canada with the PA.
  • If you do not consider non-accompanying family members in your settlement plan and financial assessment, your application may be refused.

Check the box to confirm each settlement need that will be met over the duration of the sponsorship period. Beside each settlement need, write the name of the group member(s) or representative(s) responsible for that task.

If a settlement need is not applicable to the sponsorship, leave the box unchecked and explain in the text box why it is not applicable.

Housing Plans:

• When you check the box to indicate who will be responsible for ensuring housing plans are in place, more fields will appear:

Question 1 – Please explain what housing arrangements will be made for the refugee(s)

Provide details of your planned housing arrangement, including the following:

• type of building (high-rise apartment, townhouse, detached house, shared accommodation, etc.)
• number and type of rooms available to the sponsored refugees (number of bedrooms, bathrooms, types of living areas, basement, kitchen etc.)
• types of furnishing (sofas, number of beds, dining table, etc.)
• if the refugee will be sharing this permanent housing with others, provide:
  • the name of the person hosting the refugees and relationship to the PA (if applicable); and
  • the number of other people living there

If you are arranging temporary housing upon arrival, provide details about the accommodation as listed above and additionally:

• the accommodation arrangement in the temporary housing
• the time frame when you expect to find permanent housing
• details of the permanent housing you expect to arrange

If shelter is being donated in-kind (at no cost), explain if it is being donated by:

• a member of the sponsoring group (and if so, which member(s); or
• a third party that is not a member of the sponsoring group

See options for providing in-kind shelter.

Question 2 – If known, please provide the address of the planned housing

Provide the address of temporary and/or permanent housing if known.

Question 3 – Do you have a back-up plan if your initial housing plan does not work?

Please explain your contingency plan if your planned housing arrangement does not work.

This cost estimate will be used by IRCC to assess your financial capacity as part of your sponsorship application. This is an estimate only, and is based on the sponsorship cost table, which is an average of all the provincial/territorial social assistance rates in Canada.  Depending on where you live, this estimate may be higher or lower than the actual amount of money needed for the sponsorship. The actual amount that you will need to provide to the refugee(s) after their arrival in Canada is based on the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) rates and policy in the community where the refugee(s) will live. Refer to the Post-arrival Support Requirements for Private Sponsorships  page for additional details on financial requirements for sponsorships.

i. Minimum Financial Requirement

The family size and minimum financial requirement will be automatically calculated based on the information you enter in section B. The minimum expected amount of money to sponsor is indicated in the Sponsorship Cost Table (Appendix A).

ii. Estimated living costs in the expected community of settlement

In this section you will create a budget based on annual estimated settlement costs for the refugees. The budget includes:

• start-up costs (items purchased once to help the refugees become established)
• on-going monthly costs (including rent, food, phone and internet, pocket money and allowances and transportation costs)

For one-time start-up costs, enter the estimated amount for each item.

For ongoing monthly costs, enter the estimated monthly cost. The annual cost column and total annual living costs fields will be automatically calculated.

The total annual living costs you budget for must be greater than or equal to the minimum financial requirement in section E (i).

iii. Donations

In this section, you can deduct costs for items you are donating.

• Use the In-kind Deduction Table in Appendix A.
• Enter the in-kind deduction amount for each donated item.
• Pay attention to the maximum allowable deductions for each item.
• If the amount you enter is more than the maximum allowable deduction for the family size, you will get an error message and that amount will be deleted.
• Enter shelter donations amount, only if donor is party to the sponsorship undertaking

Options for providing in-kind shelter:

Shelter may be donated fully in-kind as long as it is safe, secure and suitable for the size of the family unit, and provided to the refugee(s) without cost.

In-kind shelter can be provided by anyone other than a refugee that is within their sponsorship period.

Sponsors have the following options for demonstrating in-kind shelter:

• If housing is being donated by a member of the sponsorship group included as a signatory to the sponsorship undertaking:
  • The sponsoring group does not need to demonstrate that funds are in place to provide housing and may enter the full in-kind shelter amount in this section of the form.
• If housing is being donated by someone that isn’t a member of the sponsoring group, chose one of the following options:
  • Add the donor as a party to the sponsorship; or
  • Demonstrate in the proof of funds that 100% of the minimum required shelter amount per Sponsorship Cost tables (see Appendix A) is in place to provide housing in case the third party support becomes unavailable. While shelter may still be provided fully in-kind post-arrival, the sponsor must demonstrate that funds are available at the application-stage as a contingency measure.

iv. Financial Requirement

• This section will automatically calculate your total financial requirement for sponsorship by subtracting the in-kind deductions from the estimated annual living costs.
• If your estimated annual living costs are less than the minimum financial requirement in section E (i), the minimum financial requirement will be used for the calculation instead.

v. Total Committed Funds

In this section, your group must enter the amount of money each group member is committing and/or the funds held in trust your group is providing towards the sponsorship. If you are contributing personal income, enter the amount.

vi. Assessment of Financial Capacity

This section will indicate if your group has enough funds to sponsor. The form will automatically subtract the Financial Requirement in section E (iv) from the Committed Funds in section E (v).

• If your group has committed enough funds:
  • the balance will be positive and a checkmark will appear
• If your group has not committed enough funds:
  • the balance will be negative and an X will appear

The sponsorship application will be refused if the group has not committed sufficient funds.

This section must be read carefully and understood by all parties to the sponsorship.

Each sponsor must sign and date the application.

• By signing here, each member of the sponsoring group declares that they understand and commit to upholding the terms outlined on the Sponsorship Undertaking and Settlement Plan, in accordance with the Post-arrival Support Requirements for Private Sponsorships.
• If a signature is missing or if it is dated more than 90 days prior to the date of submission at ROC-O, the application may be returned.

As the sponsors, you must ensure that all the information contained in the application is accurate at the time of submission at ROC-O.

If there are changes to your sponsoring group’s composition or changes to the PA’s family composition at any stage in processing, a new Sponsorship Undertaking must be submitted.

See options for signing the sponsorship forms.

• Form was not submitted.
• Invalid version of form was submitted.
• Form was handwritten.
• Incomplete contact information.
• One or more email addresses are missing or the email provided is invalid or not the sponsor’s own personal email address.
• PA and family member information does not match the Generic Application Form [IMM 0008] (PDF, 0.64 MB).
• Family member does not meet the definition of a family member as per IRPR.
• Form was not signed and/or is dated more than 90 days from the date of the application’s submission to ROC-O.