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 list

The directory lists partners first, then children, then everyone else. When people from at least two groups are on file, filters appear: All, plus Partner, Children, Parents, Siblings, or Extended for each group you have.

The family directory listing a spouse and two children, with relationship chips, the Accompanying tag, and the Invite chip on the spouse card.

Each card shows the person’s name, relationship, age, citizenship, and residence. It can also carry:

Mark	Means
CA	The person is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.
Accompanying / Not accompanying	Spouse or partner only — from the Accompanying to Canada toggle.
Under 18	A Canadian citizen or permanent resident younger than 18.
Invite, Invited, Connected, Resend, Re-invite	Spouse or partner only — see Household invites.

Export downloads the directory as Excel (.xlsx), JSON (Human-readable), or JSON (Machine).

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. It is also the address an invite goes to.	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 travel with you to Canada. On by default.	No

Whether your partner accompanies you stays yours to set, whether or not you are connected.

Section 4 — Background

Applies to a spouse or partner who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident. For a Canadian or permanent-resident partner it reads Not needed — this partner is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident.

The family form does not collect a partner’s education, language results, or Canadian work. Your partner’s own Lexpoint account is the only source for those, once the two of you are connected. What the section shows depends on whether anything was entered here before the form was locked:

On file	What you see
Nothing	A panel headed Background comes from {name}‘s own Lexpoint account, with the next step for your household state.
Facts entered earlier	Those facts — education, Canadian credential, test and scores, Canadian work — read-only, with a note for your household state. Saving the record leaves them untouched.

The note follows your household state:

Household state	The section says
Not invited	Invite {name} from Settings → Family, using the email in Contact. Facts on file stay in use until {name} connects.
Invite sent	Invite sent to {name} — waiting for them to accept.
Invite expired	Your invite to {name} expired. Resend it from Settings → Family.
Disconnected	You and {name} are no longer connected. Re-invite them from Settings → Family.
Connected	Education, language, and Canadian work come from {name}‘s account. Facts entered earlier are shown but no longer used.

Until you connect, the panel with nothing on file also states Until then, your report treats you as accompanied by a spouse with no spouse facts on file, so no spouse points are awarded.

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

When you are connected and your partner has answered Sponsor eligibility on their own Personal information, their answers are used instead of this section.

Adding, editing, and archiving

1. Open Profile → Family.
2. Select Add Family Member.
3. Work through the sections with Continue. Save on the last section adds the person.
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 one chip — Invite, Invited, Connected, Resend, or Re-invite — for whether that person has connected their own Lexpoint account with yours. Selecting it opens Settings → Family, 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.

Connecting, what each of you shares, and disconnecting are covered in Link with your partner.

Related

• Link with your partner — invite, connect, and disconnect
• Personal information — your marital status drives the spouse record
• How your profile is used — what a connected partner’s report reads