Hi Thanks for your clarifications,amikety said:Yes, if you land without declaring the new baby, you can never sponsor the baby later. These are CIC's rules. Failing to declare a dependant makes them ineligible for Family Class.
Now, you can spend big money on a lawyer and appeal the case. You will most likely win as babies cannot survive without their parents.... but you have to spend the money! And waste years of your time. Save yourself thousands of dollars and time of appeals and declare the child before landing. It will save you a huge headache too.
If you need to add a baby to your PR application, you need birth certificate, medicals, and the fees for the baby. It takes about 2-3 extra months to process in some cases - but other cases no extra time. (It depends how close you are to getting your visa.) So even if it takes 3 extra months, that's better spending money on a lawyer and waiting for appeals.
I would like to give more clarity on my my question.
If baby is born in CANADA (I am currently residing in CANADA on work permit and my wife is pregnant now and also we did our medicals on Jan 4th 2013, [by then we don't know that she is pregnant]) before passport is stamped and landed, even then need to inform the VO?
for your information - we do have our medicare card from QUEBEC / insurance aswell from my company.
As the baby is born in CANADA, I am assuming baby will become CANADIAN CITIZEN and now the question is why do we need to inform CIO about the new born baby?
Hope my question is clear now.
regards,
...lucky royal.