Problems RE: non-accompanying dependent child

[Canimagic]

Guys, hi to all!
I try to be prepared for the future problems with med.exams. Help me, please.
I can't find information about where I need to send Statutory declaration. It should be sent to VO(Visa office) on paper or upload to CIC account\GCKey as electronic version?
Sorry for such maybe stupid question.

 

[Xter]

Please I need advise my husband and I just got a letter from Cic to provide medical examination for the daughter he had with his ex common law partner which he lost contact with. He has sent her series of email but no response and her contact number isn't going through at this stage what can we do.

 

[Canimagic]

Please I need advise my husband and I just got a letter from Cic to provide medical examination for the daughter he had with his ex common law partner which he lost contact with. He has sent her series of email but no response and her contact number isn't going through at this stage what can we do.

I have the same situation, my husband's ex-common law don't want to cooperate and she just ignores his letters. But we are still waiting for med.request.

 

[Xter]

I have the same situation, my husband's ex-common law don't want to cooperate and she just ignores his letters. But we are still waiting for med.request.

Do you mean Med request from CIC. Am soo scared I hope this doesn't affect our application.

 

[Renzkie]

Hi! I have the same problem with u guys, question if ever we didn’t provide a medical cert within the grace period they provide what will happen to our application?

 

[Canimagic]

Hi! I have the same problem with u guys, question if ever we didn’t provide a medical cert within the grace period they provide what will happen to our application?

Hi! I think that they will ask again to provide med.exam, but i'm not sure.

 

[Canimagic]

Guys, hi to all!
I try to be prepared for the future problems with med.exams. Help me, please.
I can't find information about where I need to send Statutory declaration. It should be sent to VO(Visa office) on paper or upload to CIC account\GCKey as electronic version?
Sorry for such maybe stupid question.

Any information, please! Who had the same?

 

[Canimagic]

Do you mean Med request from CIC. Am soo scared I hope this doesn't affect our application.

Any news? What you decided to do with this problem?
I think send to CIC the declaration, husband's letters to ex and explanation letter that we couldn't get child to pass med.exam. We have nothing else to add.

 

[jodyj21]

Has anyone had experience with including non-accompanying children in an application where the father (the applicant) is not listed on the Birth Certificate? My husband-to-be was told that he might be the father of a child a few years back, and that he is one of three possible fathers. The mother refuses DNA testing and has not listed a father on the Birth Certificate. My hubby seems to think that the child could be his, as he is starting to see a family resemblance as the child gets older. He can't afford DNA testing, but we are worried that once this woman realizes that she stands to make some money when my husband immigrates and gets a better paying job, she may try to declare him as the father by adding him to the birth certificate (apparently a father can be named on a birth certificate without signing it himself in his country). If this happens while the application is in process, we are worried that it could delay the application process.

I guess my question is - would it be better to declare the child in the application without being on the birth certificate and if DNA testing shows he is not the father, or if another man gets named on the birth certificate while our application is in process, request to have the child removed from the application? Or is it better to not include the child since there is no documentation or proof of parentage at the time of application? It's hard to say that this time whether or not she would consent to the medical evaluation or obtaining a passport for the child anyway, but if we have to add the child later, it might raise some flags with the application.

 

[Jamiefhat07]

Hi guys. I have a question about a I child included in my application for dependent. Your reply would be well appreciated.
I have been given letter of advice to apply.I am having issues with the adoption papers,of the child I included in my profile,according to the laws of my country the adoption process will take nothing less than a year and now I have less than 40 days to submit my application. Since the child’s name is in the profile used for normination,what should my spouse and I do to complete the application for submission and can we proceed without the child?

 

[Hgabriele171822]

Hi to everyone in the forum. I would be extremely grateful if someone here could help me out of a bit of a situation.

I sent in a sponsor and permanent residence application for my wife (I am a Canadian citizen). The application package was returned to me because of a situation that is beyond our control: My wife has a daughter from a previous relationship, who was taken away from her by the child's father. My wife has not had any contact with the girl or the father for over 4 years, so it was not possible for us to get photos of the child or to get the child medically examined, although she does fall under the "dependent child" category according to CIC's definition.

My wife and the child's father split on extremely poor terms, to put it lightly, several years ago, but there was never any official custody battle. At the time, he was working internationally and was moving every 2 years or so due to his job requirements. This leaves us with no way to realistically track down the child or the father, and even if we did, he would certainly refuse to help us in any way.

We included a letter along with the application, outlining these unfortunate circumstances, but this does not seem to have been sufficient. The application was returned saying only:

1. Submit recent photographs for non-accompanying dependent child, <NAME>.
2. Please submit Medical Report Form(s) (IMM1017 - Copy 2) for non-accompanying dependent, <NAME>.

I found this response a little frustrating, because there was no mention of the letter that was included in the application. This leads me to believe that the officer perhaps did not see it among the sea of other papers in the envelope - otherwise he would have at least mentioned that the letter is insufficient, instead of just stating the obvious. Am I correct in this thinking? I called the CIC call centre earlier and inquired about this, but the call centre operator assured me that this was not the case, and that we just needed further proof that we did everything in our power to contact the child's father in order to get the child photographed and medically examined. She failed to provide details on what sort of proof is acceptable.

So I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible that the officer simply didn't see the letter explaining the situation? Could this oversight be the reason for the simple rejection of the application?
2. If we do need to show further proof of attempting to contact the child's father, what type of proof is suitable? A recorded telephone conversation (if we can find his telephone number), an email, a written letter? How could we even go about trying to find a person when we don't even know the country he resides in?

I understand that these are difficult questions, but I am at my wit's end, and cannot really afford to pay a lawyer to handle this at the moment.

I will be deeply grateful for any advice I receive here.

Thanks!

Hi, how was the outcome of your application?

 

[Hgabriele171822]

Hi Matthew, and thanks for your reply.

I understand the reasons why the CIC takes this very seriously, and I agree with them in most cases, although in this case I firmly believe that the father would want the child to live with his parents or sister much sooner than with my wife and I, since history has made us enemies. Of course the CIC has no way of knowing this, and it is not something that can be proven easily.

Please understand that I am not trying to argue against the CIC's principles here, I agree with them, but I do believe that this is an exceptional situation and that those same principles should not apply here. The only question is how to make that evident to the CIC.

So, with a full understanding of the consequences, my wife and I have decided to apply for permanent residence in Canada for her, because the chances of the child ever coming into our care are near impossible. This was not a hasty decision, and we thought about it long and hard. The question that remains is not WHETHER we want to do this or not, but HOW we can do it, given the facts of the situation.



That's exactly what my question was: what is considered acceptable proof of trying to contact him? For example, if I were to find out his telephone number and call him - how do I show proof of that? Or if I find him on Facebook and contact him that way - are print outs of correspondence ok? I would feel silly even asking him for any help, but I will do it if I need to - I just want to know what sort of proof the CIC is looking for, like some solid criteria that separate acceptable proof from unacceptable proof, or at least some concrete examples.

Thanks again for everyone's help. Much appreciated.

Hi,how was the outcome of your application?