Hello everyone,
I have a question about my application to sponsor my sister in the Family Class: Other relatives. The application is going well, I have added the timeline below.
Zimbabwe, where my sister is, currently has a passport crisis - no paper, ink and machinery to print passports. The government hasn't issued passports in a few months. My sister has a passport but her two dependent children who are accompanying her do not have passports. They have applied for her children's passports but we do not know when they will get them. CIC Pretoria reached out and requested for medicals in May and we asked for an extension of time to wait for passports but up to now there is no word on passports. You cannot get your medicals done without a picture ID and for the kids who are 3 and 2 years old that means they need their passports. We received another email this week asking for the medicals within 60 days, CIC says if they don't receive this information within the 60 days, our application will be refused.
I have checked to see if we can send a webform to list the children as non-accompanying dependents but even in that case, non-accompanying dependents have to have their medicals done in order for the applicant to be issued with PR.
My question is: Can our PR application be refused based on a circumstance that is beyond our control? What can we do in this case?
The passport crisis in Zimbabwe is something that we do not have control over. It has been covered by press and in international media outlets. I dowloaded these news sources and sent them to CIC Pretoria in our initial request for extension to get medicals email.
Let me know if there is a forum that I can post this question if I am in the wrong place. I just thought to post here since our application was received in March 2019.
App received: 1 March 2019 | AOR1: 3 April 2019 | ECAs: 3 Apr 2019| SA: 14 April 2019 | BM Request: 20 April 2019 | Med Request and additional info: 28 May 2019 | Med Request (2) and additional info: 6 August 2019
