Family and dependants

Your family directory at Profile → Family is one list of people reused across cases, not a per-application form. Each person is added once and edited in place.

The form has five sections — Person, Status, Contact, Background, Sponsorship — and which of them apply depends on the relationship you pick and on whether that person is Canadian. Sections that do not apply stay visible in the navigation and show a one-line explanation instead of fields.

The family directory listing a spouse and two children, with relationship chips and accompanying tags.

Relationships you can add

Value	Group
Spouse	Partner
Common-Law Partner	Partner
Son	Children
Daughter	Children
Mother	Parents
Father	Parents
Brother	Siblings
Sister	Siblings
Aunt	Extended Family
Uncle	Extended Family
Other	—

Spouse, Common-Law Partner, Mother, and Father are unique — you can hold one of each at a time. Choosing a relationship that implies a sex or a marital status fills those fields in for you: Son, Brother, Father, and Uncle set Sex to Male; Daughter, Sister, Mother, and Aunt set it to Female; Spouse sets Marital Status to Married and Common-Law Partner sets it to Common-Law.

Section 1 — Person

Field	What it means	Required
Relationship to You	Which of the values above describes this person.	Yes
First Name	Given name. English letters, spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens only.	Yes
Last Name	Family name. Same character restriction.	Yes
Date of Birth	Must be in the past and imply an age of 120 or under. For a spouse or partner it must imply an age of at least 18.	Yes
Sex	Male, Female, or Other. Pre-filled from the relationship where the relationship implies it.	No

Section 2 — Status

Field	What it means	Required
Citizenship Country	The country this person holds citizenship in.	Yes
Country of Residence	Where they live now.	Yes
City in Canada	Searchable list of Canadian locations. Appears only when Country of Residence is Canada. Province fills in from the city.	Yes when they live in Canada
Status in Country of Residence	Citizen, Permanent resident, Visitor, Worker, Student, Protected Person, Refugee Claimant, Foreign National, or Other.	Yes when citizenship and residence countries differ
Marital Status	Single, Married, Common-Law, Divorced, Separated, or Widowed. Asked here for everyone who is not your spouse or partner.	Yes for non-partners

Lexpoint treats the person as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident when their citizenship country is Canada, or when they live in Canada with the status Permanent resident. That single derivation decides whether the Background section or the Sponsorship section applies.

Section 3 — Contact

Applies to a spouse or common-law partner only. For every other relationship the section reads Contact details apply to spouses and partners.

Field	What it means	Required
Email	Their email address.	Yes for a spouse or partner
Phone	Their phone number, with country code.	No
Marital Status	Pre-filled from the relationship (Married or Common-Law).	No
Accompanying to Canada	Toggle — will this person travel with you to Canada. On by default.	No

The Accompanying / Not accompanying tag on each card in the directory comes from this toggle.

Section 4 — Background

Applies to a spouse or partner who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. Otherwise the section reads Not needed — this partner is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Field	What it means	Required
Highest education	None / Less than secondary, Secondary (high school), One-year post-secondary, Two-year post-secondary, Bachelor’s degree (3+ years), Two or more post-secondary, Master’s degree, or Doctoral (PhD).	No
Canadian post-secondary credential	Toggle — a diploma, degree, or certificate from a Canadian school.	No
Language test	IELTS (General Training), CELPIP (General), PTE Core, TEF Canada, or TCF Canada. Leave empty for none taken.	No
TEF exam period	New (after Dec 2023) or Old (Oct 2019 – Dec 2023). Appears only when the test is TEF.	No
Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking	Raw band scores, in the scale of the test you selected. Appear once a test type is chosen.	No
Canadian work experience	Toggle — skilled work while living in Canada.	No
Years of Canadian work	Number of years. Appears only when the toggle above is on, and clears when you switch it off.	No

Each score shows the CLB it converts to underneath it, and an Overall CLB panel appears below the four. The conversion is the same one used for your own tests — see Language tests.

Section 5 — Sponsorship history

Applies to a spouse or partner who is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. Otherwise the section reads Not needed — this partner is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

Field	What it means	Required
Was previously sponsored	Toggle.	No
Approximate sponsorship date	Appears when the toggle above is on. Must be in the past.	No
Has sponsored others	Toggle.	No
Approximate date	Appears when the toggle above is on. Must be in the past.	No
Currently on social assistance	Toggle.	No

Adding, editing, and archiving

1. Open Profile → Family.
2. Select Add Family Member.
3. Work through the sections. Next moves you forward; the last section’s button saves.
4. Back on the list, the pencil icon reopens a person for editing.

To remove someone, use the bin icon on their card. Lexpoint asks Archive [name]? They can still be found in existing cases. Archiving hides the person from the directory without deleting the record.

A spouse or partner cannot be archived here

The archive button is disabled for a spouse or common-law partner. To remove one, go to Personal information and change your marital status. Lexpoint then asks when the change took effect and archives the spouse record with that date.

The reverse is also enforced: setting your marital status to Married or Common-Law when no spouse record exists sends you here first, and your marital status updates once the spouse is added.

Household invites

A spouse or partner card carries an extra chip — Invite, Invited, Connected, Resend, or Re-invite — reflecting whether that person has their own connected Lexpoint account. Selecting it opens the household area of your account settings, where invites are sent and managed. Adding someone to your family directory does not by itself give them an account or any access to yours.

Related

• Personal information — your marital status drives the spouse record
• Language tests — the same CLB conversion used in the Background section
• How your profile is used — what recalculates when you edit family