Help!!! MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE NOTICE

[abseven]

I am currently in Canada. I applied for PR under EE this month and did the medical exam in a clinic, and then the clinic asked me to take a sputum culture test and the second x-ray after 3 months since they found very small dots on my lung. I did all they asked, and the clinic submitted my result to IRCC, BTW, the sputum test result shows all negative, however, IRCC sent me an email says I need to do medical surveillance. My case status doesn't show medical passed yet, so I wonder how this will affect my application. I will get medical passed after this surveillance or the case will be continued processing, I'll do it once I get PR and after the landing.

Thx heaps

The email looks like this:

Good Day,



The results of your immigration medical examination (IME) indicate that you are required to report to a provincial/territorial public health authority (P/T PHA), as you may have a medical condition considered to be one of public health significance in Canada requiring a medical follow-up referred to as surveillance.



The P/T PHA has the responsibility to conduct a medical follow-up according to established protocols. Therefore, you may receive a letter or a phone call from the P/T PHA regarding next steps to completing medical surveillance. The P/T PHA must inform Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that you have complied with medical surveillance for IRCC to update your file.



Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, response times and the availability of appointments has been affected. This means it may take longer than 3 months for your appointment to be scheduled. If you have not heard anything from the P/T PHA after six months, please email the Public Health Liaison Unit at IRCC.MHBSurveillance-SurveillanceDGMS.IRCC@cic.gc.ca



For IRCC to notify the designated P/T PHA of your medical surveillance requirement, please kindly ensure that you have provided IRCC with your updated Canadian residential address. A copy of your IME will also be sent along with the notification. Please know that without a Canadian residential address, IRCC cannot inform the P/T PHA of your medical surveillance requirement. If you do not know your address upon arrival, or if you relocate to a different province prior to your appointment with public health, please email the Public Health Liaison Unit at IRCC.MHBSurveillance-SurveillanceDGMS.IRCC@cic.gc.ca



As a friendly reminder, failure to comply with all the conditions in this notice may be reportable under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and could have an adverse impact on your current and/or subsequent immigration applications to Canada.





A copy of this correspondence will be included in your file.



We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this important request.



Kind regards,





The Public Health Liaison Unit / Unité de liaison avec la santé publique

Migration Health Branch / Direction générale Migration et Santé

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) / Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada

Hello please check messages! I have an important query, it'll be of great help!

 

[ajaythakur.auric]

Ru asking me?

Hi,

Did you get your visa and medical Surveillance letter on same date . ? or visa first & then letter second . ? i just got this letter , nothing updated on portal as of now and did you get any email for VISA approval or you checked on your portal ?

 

[harryag]

Hi,

May I ask how much time it took for medical surveillance to get cleared once you landed?

I have got the same ask but I am planning to do a soft landing for a month before I wind up home and job back at home.

Is it ok to leave Canada while medical surveillance is on?

Do you get the proper for this? I might also have to do soft landing for 1.5 months. I would like to know the procedure. Thanks.

 

[Maulinptl]

Hello,
I am inland applicant living in canada. I got medical surveillance letter recently before getting pr. I dont know how much time its gonna take to get approval for pr after medical surveillance letter. My medical is also passed. If anybody had similar situation please let me know. How much time its gonna take to get approval for pr?

 

[abseven]

Hello,
I am inland applicant living in canada. I got medical surveillance letter recently before getting pr. I dont know how much time its gonna take to get approval for pr after medical surveillance letter. My medical is also passed. If anybody had similar situation please let me know. How much time its gonna take to get approval for pr?

Hello!! Thank you for posting this, I have a question for you, it will be of great help!!! Please reply brother!

1) When did you take your medical exam? Did you take it before getting ITA or after getting ITA?

2) Did you apply by yourself or an agent? Also, did IRCC reach out to you or your agent? For medical surveillance??? I guess it's better if they reach out to you directly!!

 

[Taran D]

Hello,
I am inland applicant living in canada. I got medical surveillance letter recently before getting pr. I dont know how much time its gonna take to get approval for pr after medical surveillance letter. My medical is also passed. If anybody had similar situation please let me know. How much time its gonna take to get approval for pr?

Did you got the call from provincial doc as yet? If not you have to wait for them ( no need to call as they will tell you to wait for their call). So once you get the call, appointment will be fixed with the provincial doc, you need to attend and do the testa asked again. Once you get the tests results provincial doc will send a report that you complied with them. Hence you will get golden email. The medical will says passed, don't worry about them.

 

[samt1991]

Hi in same situation but in my case medical says passed in GC key portal. Can you explain what happened with your case further.
Thanks

I am currently in Canada. I applied for PR under EE this month and did the medical exam in a clinic, and then the clinic asked me to take a sputum culture test and the second x-ray after 3 months since they found very small dots on my lung. I did all they asked, and the clinic submitted my result to IRCC, BTW, the sputum test result shows all negative, however, IRCC sent me an email says I need to do medical surveillance. My case status doesn't show medical passed yet, so I wonder how this will affect my application. I will get medical passed after this surveillance or the case will be continued processing, I'll do it once I get PR and after the landing.

Thx heaps

The email looks like this:

Good Day,



The results of your immigration medical examination (IME) indicate that you are required to report to a provincial/territorial public health authority (P/T PHA), as you may have a medical condition considered to be one of public health significance in Canada requiring a medical follow-up referred to as surveillance.



The P/T PHA has the responsibility to conduct a medical follow-up according to established protocols. Therefore, you may receive a letter or a phone call from the P/T PHA regarding next steps to completing medical surveillance. The P/T PHA must inform Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) that you have complied with medical surveillance for IRCC to update your file.



Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, response times and the availability of appointments has been affected. This means it may take longer than 3 months for your appointment to be scheduled. If you have not heard anything from the P/T PHA after six months, please email the Public Health Liaison Unit at IRCC.MHBSurveillance-SurveillanceDGMS.IRCC@cic.gc.ca



For IRCC to notify the designated P/T PHA of your medical surveillance requirement, please kindly ensure that you have provided IRCC with your updated Canadian residential address. A copy of your IME will also be sent along with the notification. Please know that without a Canadian residential address, IRCC cannot inform the P/T PHA of your medical surveillance requirement. If you do not know your address upon arrival, or if you relocate to a different province prior to your appointment with public health, please email the Public Health Liaison Unit at IRCC.MHBSurveillance-SurveillanceDGMS.IRCC@cic.gc.ca



As a friendly reminder, failure to comply with all the conditions in this notice may be reportable under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and could have an adverse impact on your current and/or subsequent immigration applications to Canada.





A copy of this correspondence will be included in your file.



We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this important request.



Kind regards,





The Public Health Liaison Unit / Unité de liaison avec la santé publique

Migration Health Branch / Direction générale Migration et Santé

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) / Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada

 

[samt1991]

Yes I am in same situation can you tell me if it got resolved for you ?

Hello,
I am inland applicant living in canada. I got medical surveillance letter recently before getting pr. I dont know how much time its gonna take to get approval for pr after medical surveillance letter. My medical is also passed. If anybody had similar situation please let me know. How much time its gonna take to get approval for pr?

 

[shooter117]

Hi in same situation but in my case medical says passed in GC key portal. Can you explain what happened with your case further.
Thanks

Additional chest x-ray and blood test also collected my sputum samples after 3 months of the notice. Then everything passed and copr. My Local health department contacted me once after I did extra exam and said my medical exam is within one year, so no action need.

 

[samt1991]

Okay so you did sputum for IRCC and then again for public health ? Getting confused because you are saying since your medical exam was within one year. Which medical exam you are referring to ? In my case I have done one IME in January then received request for further medical and did that in April which was sputum and x ray. And medical passed . Now after all this got surveillance email.
So now will I be doing again all this for public health with another doctor?

Additional chest x-ray and blood test also collected my sputum samples after 3 months of the notice. Then everything passed and copr. My Local health department contacted me once after I did extra exam and said my medical exam is within one year, so no action need.

 

[shooter117]

Okay so you did sputum for IRCC and then again for public health ? Getting confused because you are saying since your medical exam was within one year. Which medical exam you are referring to ? In my case I have done one IME in January then received request for further medical and did that in April which was sputum and x ray. And medical passed . Now after all this got surveillance email.
So now will I be doing again all this for public health with another doctor?

“Additional chest x-ray and blood test also collected my sputum samples ” all done in the same clinic as my initial IME. I assume you will receive a letter from local PHA and you can call them for the next step if they don't call you. You may want to call your initial IME clinic as well, they may give your more info regarding the
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE NOTICE

.

 

[samt1991]

After my initial medical I received further medical request for sputum and X-ray. We did the sputum and X-ray that whole process took 3 months.Now medical is passed after this process according to IRCC. After it said passed I received the surveillance notice.I called local PHA but they have no information regarding my file.

“Additional chest x-ray and blood test also collected my sputum samples ” all done in the same clinic as my initial IME. I assume you will receive a letter from local PHA and you can call them for the next step if they don't call you. You may want to call your initial IME clinic as well, they may give your more info regarding the
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE NOTICE

.

 

[Senthilvelak]

After my initial medical I received further medical request for sputum and X-ray. We did the sputum and X-ray that whole process took 3 months.Now medical is passed after this process according to IRCC. After it said passed I received the surveillance notice.I called local PHA but they have no information regarding my file.

Hello, I spouse case in same stage. Did you got your PR. Did that medical surveillance delays the PR processing?

 

[samt1991]

Hello, I spouse case in same stage. Did you got your PR. Did that medical surveillance delays the PR processing?

We got surveillance cleared after sending in all the reports we did as a furtherance request to our first medical. Keep on calling your local PHU unit. It will take them 2 weeks to open the file and can close it the same day but will take one month to get all clear email from IRCC after PHU closes the file . We don't know if the sponsorship file got the update. As per gcms notes they had put surveillance code so my guess is it should go away now. I am waiting for notes after surveillance was cleared.

 

[Senthilvelak]

We got surveillance cleared after sending in all the reports we did as a furtherance request to our first medical. Keep on calling your local PHU unit. It will take them 2 weeks to open the file and can close it the same day but will take one month to get all clear email from IRCC after PHU closes the file . We don't know if the sponsorship file got the update. As per gcms notes they had put surveillance code so my guess is it should go away now. I am waiting for notes after surveillance was cleared.

Great. Thanks for the response. Does the Eligibility check and other processing resumes only after PHU closes the file and update ircc?