new born Baby's PR

[uccemebug]

As a PR, you can not sponsor when you yourself are living outside Canada. This is a headache for all PR's from visa exempt countries that have babies outside Canada. You can not sponsor from outside so you want to take the baby with you to Canada and sponsor from inside. Then you apply for a TRV for the baby, may be denied because your intention is for the baby to live in Canada, not stay temporarily. Maybe you can get a TRP for the baby, a special permit for people who are generally inadmissible for a TRV but have good reason to be in Canada anyway. If you can't get that either, your only choice is to leave the family behind and go to Canada to sponsor by yourself. If you and your family are tight on the residency requirements, that could mean that your wife and other child will have lost their PR by the time you are ready to go back. That is why it is a headache. I do not know what your council is planning to do. There is no way for a PR to sponsor the baby while not living in Canada. Your council can try to fake the paperwork but when immigration finds out you are not in Canada, they will deny.

If you want to finish a work contract where you are, you could send your wife to Canada earlier with the older child and you keep the baby with you. Your wife could sponsor the baby and hopefully you would have it through before you want to go yourself. You can also ask the embassy where you are if it is possible to get a TRV or TRP for the baby.

What a mess! And all the while, in Canada, no health insurance?

 

[Leon]

If you manage to get the TRV or TRP for the baby and bring it with you to Canada, it depends on the province. I am pretty sure that Alberta Health would cover a baby that is being sponsored for PR. Also pretty sure that Ontario would not.

 

[uccemebug]

If you manage to get the TRV or TRP for the baby and bring it with you to Canada, it depends on the province. I am pretty sure that Alberta Health would cover a baby that is being sponsored for PR. Also pretty sure that Ontario would not.

Given that the only sort of private health insurance in Ontario seems to be strictly for emergency use (e.g. blue cross), and that those private systems are invariably claim-based, I'd be hesitant about bringing an infant to Ontario without health coverage (personal opinion). Here is the list of who's eligible in Ontario.

http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/pub/ohip/eligibility.html

The children of PR's are not eligible through their parent's standing. It seems that my son was eligible because of his citizenship and official residency in Ontario.

 

[rjessome]

I too along with my wife and son landed in toronto, canada on 25 september 2008, soon after a month I left canada and went back to the origin where i came from as i had a permanent job and then in September 2009, i got my new baby (second child) and i applied for his PR in september 2010, since then I have no information from immigration. my case is handled by a counsel in canada and he says that by the time (sep 2011) when i will return back to canada, before that i will get my new baby PR. is it true. I am paying the counsel 500 dollars for his job. pls advise.

You get what you pay for! Sorry but I don't know any licensed immigration consultant or lawyer who would do a PR application for $500! You are living OUTSIDE of Canada as a PR. As Leon said, you CAN'T sponsor your child as a PR unless you are living in Canada. Did your "counsel" tell you that? Sounds to me like you paid someone to get a refusal, if he has done anything at all (other than take your money).