Hi Physician,YTNZ said:I can see that you can't tell the immigration office that the child is adopted because it's your wife's natural son, and he was registered by your names immediately after birth, so his birth cetificate indicates you as his biological father, correct? so I understand that from the legal side this child is your own child unless you legally denied him. So in my opinion you can't present this child to the immigration officer as an adopted child.
Another issue that you can't tell them that you didn't know about your own child for more than three or four months. To solve this issue you have to take the risk by either to explain everything to the immigration officer like what you did with us, or you can make any other excuse for not including the child at the time of the application, e.g. you wife feared to tell you about him, or his official documents were not ready at the time of the application.
In my opinion both options are risky, so take the shortest way and be honest with the immigration officer. In the end they can ban you forever from entering Canada for misrepresentation but they won't for telling the truth.
I agree with YTNZ (+1 for you) and I was thinking along the same lines as YTNZ (the part in red ).
If you want the child to accompany you then you will have to do the following:
1. Inform VO that his papers were not ready to be submitted....and you are in middle of preparing them.
2. Have you initiated paperwork for his Passport? If not, do that ASAP.
3. have you applied for a Birth certificate for him with your and your wife's name as parents? If not, do that.
4. Complete the paperwork of filing Immigration forms and arrange for funds for Processing fees (Cad $150)
5. You will now have to show funds for a family of 4.
6. Have you submitted your marriage certificate? (Just wanted to confirm....if you have then ignore my question).
Honestly, I feel terrible for advising you not to tell the VO about what happened (as it is complicated, confusing and difficult to be convincing)....JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILD.....
@ loggan:
I totally agree with your sentiments.....loggan said:people dont throw stones at Physician Ye. His wife carried pregnancy for a family and couldnt gv baby there. Why? Legally and or morally that family needs there baby. if they dont want him ,only then shud Physician and Ye discuss on how to take hm up. Forum members by u supporting the baby to be taken away from his genetic parents doesnt help him. These people were probably desperate to hv a child and they deserve to get hm back. Then Physician can continue his life with his biological family.
We dont have the full picture here. I am not sure how the baby was conceived....through artificial means or through surrogacy and what were the Hospital's/Doctor's involvement? This is something that the family has to decide.
But for sure, I would hate to see the innocent baby suffer.
Physician still has the option of returning the baby to his wife's sister but I am getting a feeling that it might not be a possibility.
Physician, if you are worried that VO might find out about this during checks...then dont worry, as your VO does not have any paperwork from you regarding the inclusion of the baby on his records.
Physician.....take it easy.... TRY to keep your calm and make informed decision ......if you want more inputs....do Let us know. I can understand your situation...I know you are stressed and worried.....praying for you and your family.
Mitali