Hi everyone,
My wife’s spouse application is currently progress. She has done parts of her medicals, just the X-ray exam is left to be done due to her pregnancy.
She has giving birth now. What do I need to do to include our baby to her application?
For me I am a Canadian citizen through naturalization
thanks
You do not really need to 'include' the baby to the application, since the child is a Canadian citizen (by descent from you). However there are some things you should do, the most important of which - time-wise- is to get the x-ray and hence medicals completed.
Other bits - that will take a bit of time because of docs needed:
-in due course you should add the child to your spouse's additional family information form;
-recommend a short letter of explanation that the child is a Canadian citizen since birth and you will or have applied for citizenship proof and a Canadian passport for the child.
Note, technically these two steps do not
require - formally - that you show documents of the child but if you provide them without the child's docs, you can expect you'll get asked for them before too long. (Personally I'd go ahead and provide once you have birth certificate of the child).
-birth certificate showing the parent is a Canadian citizen (translated etc if necessary).
-copy of the application for proof of Canadian citizenship.
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probably some local ID or foreign passport of the child. (May be needed for citizenship / Cdn passport app)
-Canadian passport (probably temporary) for the child. (I doubt IRCC would require at this point but will be needed anyway for travel)
For the last: contact the embassy/Cdn consular section where spouse resides or the global affairs consular hotline. Basically you will apply for a temporary passport for the child on basis that the child is presumed to be a citizen by parentage ('descent'), which you demonstrate by the other docs and the app for proof of Canadian citizenship.
While it can seem like all these steps take some time, they probably are manageable within the time period that spouse would need to get PR approved anyway and/or child ready to travel. In some countries there may be additional or bad delays in getting local ID / docs for the child.
Don't forget - in some countries permission to travel may be needed if the child will travel with just one parent.
[Side note: some of this documentation requirement is so that IRCC knows the child is a citizen ... because a child who is not a citizen and not declared can never be sponsored in future. So keep in mind they're just trying to make sure the child is properly accounted for.]