Medical upfront or after?

[sreenathvs]

Hai friends,

I am an Indian citizen currently on work permit in Canada. My wife is a canadian and she is sponsoring me (outland application). I have a doubt about the medical examination. I heard that for the outland application we have to do the medical upfront. I called some of the physicians here and they don't have an appointment this month.

So I am wondering can I send in the application without medicals and do the medicals later? I am going to India in september, so if that is possible I can do the medicals in India and can save some bucks also, because I think its expensive doing medicals here in Canada. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ponga]

Outland applicants are strongly advised to include the medical with the application.

Inland applicants can usually provide the medical later, since stage 1 takes so much longer than Outland.


You can have the exam anywhere as long as you use a CIC approved panel physician (list is on their website). Try to find one that uses the eMedical system to transmit the results electronically to CIC.

Good luck!

 

[sreenathvs]

Excellent. Thank you ponga.

I have one more doubt. Do I need to submit my birth certificate along with the application, because I am from a place where there is no birth certificate. We usually use 10th grade certificate for every purpose.

If I have to submit it, is it the original or notarized copy?