Need clarification my son with blood cancer he is 2 years
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Others can comment but unfortunately suspect with blood cancer/leukemia you would need all treatment to have finished followed by a period of full remission otherwise the potential burden on Canadian healthcare would probably rule against your application.
As said others can comment as well as that is just my opinion and of course there are many variations of blood cancer some more complex than others to reach a full remission but then again I am not a medical professional .
Wishing you all the best for your son achieving that remission.
As said others can comment as well as that is just my opinion and of course there are many variations of blood cancer some more complex than others to reach a full remission but then again I am not a medical professional .
Wishing you all the best for your son achieving that remission.
You are posting in the Family Class section, are you being sponsored by your spouse who is already a Canadian citizen or PR? If this is the case your son's medical condition would not be an issue.
However it sounds like you are all applying together under an economic immigration stream, If this is the case, his medical condition is very expensive to treat/maintain/continually test so a very high chance the entire app would be denied due to excessive demand test. If your son is deemed inadmissible due to a medical issue, that means nobody would be able to immigrate.
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By any chance did you get your application evaluated?we are in the similar situation and would like to know what happened?
If the child is being sponsored through the family class, then it will have no impact on the application as medical conditions can't be grounds for refusal. If you're immigrating through any other stream, such as the different economic ones, then medical conditions can be disqualifying, and ones like cancer do present a significant impact on the Canadian healthcare system so it's unlikely that you'd be approved.
Unfortunately most cancer treatment will easily surpass the around 19K healthcare cost limit.
But what if she is in remission and maintenance.if treatment costs less than 20 k per year
IRCC may still refuse the application if they feel there's a chance the cancer may reoccur. Having said that, you can certainly try.
For economic migration, medical inadmissibility is a valid reason for rejection of applications. This, as has been stated by the other posters, could be due to excessive demand on the healthcare system. Or it could be on the grounds of communicable diseases that poses a risk to others in Canada.
IRCC clearly states in their guides that the doctors who perform the medicals do not make admissibility decisions. They check the health of the applicants and report their findings. If I was you, I’d proceed and have the medicals done. Let the doctor report on your family’s health and let IRCC make a decision from there. You may surprised by how lienent they could be. They may refer you for further specialized medicals, and make a decision after those.
You don’t have much to lose here, but potentially a lot to gain. Good luck.
Agree with 1887CAN in that we can all speculate here on what may or not be the outcome of any application given blood cancer/ luekemia can longer term be unpredictable and in some instances be susceptible even to secondary cancer. Then if someone goes down the stem cell transplant route costs easily escalate.
Go with the medical which will be a point in time and let IRCC make the decision based on the information in front of them. If you do not at least follow through you will always wonder what might have been. Good luck
Go with the medical which will be a point in time and let IRCC make the decision based on the information in front of them. If you do not at least follow through you will always wonder what might have been. Good luck
I think people also get caught up in assuming that a lot of immigration departments for various countries are heartless and unsympathetic to everything. I don’t think this is the case here at all.
I think IRCC would only deny an application on medical grounds if there was a clear threat to the health of others in Canada, or a very excessive demand. All of the guidlines IRCC operate by are exactly that, guidelines. There’s still a lot of discretion and autonomy available for each IRCC officer to use. This is probably why there’s so many appeals of IRCC decisions, and why a lot of decisions get overturned. A judge interprets the laws and rules differently sometimes. There’s obviously a lot appeals that get rejected too, as you can’t stop someone launching a frivolous appeal of a correct IRCC decision.
There was a case in Ontario recently of a university professor who was here on a temporary work visa with his wife and son. The university wanted to keep him permanently so they sponsored him. When he was here as a temporary worker, he had to provide his own health insurance, which he did. Obviously, when someone becomes PR in Ontario they’re entitled to OHIP. The professor declared his son had down syndrome and was instructed to have the medicals completed. Once done, IRCC declined the application under the excessive demand rule, due to the care his son would require.
The decision was appealed and was upheld, meaning that a judge decided that the IRCC decision was overzealous and in this case an exception could be made. I think this happens a lot more than we think. We only hear when this cases make the news.
I think you’re right though, if they decide not to at least have the medicals done and proceed with the application, they may regret it for years.