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    Health insurance for the first 3 months

    Check the OHIP eligibility site. Waiting time may actually for less time. In the eligibility section, there is very contradicting info. IE, myst be physically present in Ontario for 153 days immediately after establishing residency in Ontario but literally right after that, it says, there is no...
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    Seeking Advice: Intended Occupations for PGP 2024 Application

    I just put my parents as retired as they are no longer of working age and I sponsored them with no intention of making them work.
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    social assistance

    What about old age security? My dad is eligible for this as there was a treaty between Canada and our home country and he would qualify. I'm just concerned tif this meets the criteria of social services
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    There was one specific post from the 2019 PGP (around October - November 2022) where the parents' flight was one day before medical expiry. Upon checking in immigration from their home country, one of the spouse's visa was marked invalid and they were not allowed to board. I believe the person...
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    I may be wrong here but as far as I know, their landing has to be before the medicals expire. I remember seeing a post a few months ago where immigration even called the sponsor to determine if the applicants can land before medical date cause the finalization vs medical expiry was only within a...
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    Authorization to return to Canada.

    Failed refugee almost always requires an ARC because the countdown starts from when the original status expires (i.e., tourist visa expiry)
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    Authorization to return to Canada.

    No photos. Its a one page document that includes the date, location where it was issued, the applicant's name. This is followed by 2 statements: one would be ARC is granted for a PR and the other is granted to return to Canada from time to time. For my parents, the first statement had a check...
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    Authorization to return to Canada.

    Ours was different. We were June 2019 applicants for PGP. Medicals and security was requested and submitted March 2021 then on June 2021, they requested for ARC. We submitted the requirements and payments within that month and no movement on file until September 2022 where ARC was approved. The...
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    Authorization to return to Canada.

    They got it emailed to them first then came second request for medicals then PPR
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    Authorization to return to Canada.

    My parents had the Arc emailed to them but whrb they got to pearson airport and was trying to show in at immigration... they didn't really look at it. Guess they have a record of it in their comp somewhere.
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2023

    It won't. They would need to buy health insurance
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    Medical Surveillance but no letter received yet

    Hi everyone, my mother has landed on Nov 25 and has a medical surveillance that needs to be done within 30 days of landing. We were told that a letter will be forwarded to us regarding further instruction however, we have not received anything yet by mail and we are nearing the 30 day mark. Does...
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Hey! they already landed last Nov 26 :)
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2019

    Hi Everyone, just wanted to update that my parents have now landed in Canada after almost 4 years since expressing interest for PGP.
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Not sure what you mean by date mentioned in COPR for Arrival. Only thing i see is its issue date is 11/15/22 and valid to 10/12/23. We received it along the passport with visa
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    Forgot to mention previous visa refusal :( Please help

    Yeah! I have been checking obsessively. But if it remains as approved and visa in the counterfoil remains "Your document is valid" then should be good to still fly out right?
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Thank you! The additional documents we provided was through webform and additional disclosure we make (not requested). Timeline: June 2019 submitted application January 2020 - biometrics February 2020 - PCC January 2021 - Medicals request April 2021 - passed medicals June 2021 - additional...
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Oh gosh! Will they revoke the visa or re-open application then. I wonder if they even saw when they did the final approval
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Their Medicals was done first week of October 2022 and was passed on October 18, 2022 PPR was Nov 10 We sent passports to VFS on Nov 14 and received it with visa on Nov 16 November 17 - we received an acknowledgement receipt letter for the additional disclosures we passed back in Oct 4 My...
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    Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021

    Thank you, Im worried cause our additional disclosure is for a US visa refusal 20+ years ago but what timing. 1.5 months for an acknowledgement email. I really hope we don't get penalized cause they didnt get to our disclosure on a timely manner. Our family should be happy and excited about our...