yes they can do both bio and medical here in Canada. it will be great to be able to be with your parents through the process. good luck!ok Thank youthat is a relief...my mom has done biometrics before but not my dad. so they would need medical for both and biometrics for dad. Also, they are coming to Canada next week. Hopefully , that would help with any movement in my application once i send the change in contact info.
Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship 2021
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Hellook Thank you
Do you remember if your mom needed to fill out any form before her biometrics appointment?
Like a consent form?
Thank you
depends on the VAC. Call your local VAC before you go.
Generally passports and BIL from CIC are required.
some VACs are by appointments only so you need to bring your appointment confirmation.
some require consent form to collect your biometrics and there might be covid protocols in place.
I think it was only the biometrics instruction letter and passport only. She went back in 2020 and no appointments were needed at that time. I believe it depends on different visa offices
@kafepoche Yes it will be a lot easier to go through the process together.. Thank you
Good Luck to you as well Hi,@kafepoche Yes it will be a lot easier to go through the process together.. Thank you
my parents are also already here and can they do the medical here? Should I inform the CIC about their new mailing address?
thanks.
Thank you, so will contact them via webform? Do they still need to go back to home country or can they just wait here until they received the results of pr?
They can do medicals in Canada but it will be more expensive. Due to Covid there may be extra delays. Some testing may not be possible for visitors because of huge backlogs for people with provincial health cards.ok Thank you
Really depends on how long processing takes. There are no guarantees of approval or how long processing will take so until people land as PRs they remain visitors and aren’t guaranteed extensions.
Processing for most in Latin and South America goes through Mexico,
They can be in Canada or home country as long as IRCC has their current mailing address. My parents are planning to stay here for a year or so. Hoping to get the process finalized by then.
Ideally if visa is not a problem, yes they can stay and do a virtual landing.
https://secure.cic.gc.ca/pp-md/pp-list.aspx
you can call the panel physician you plan to visit, in canada or in home country, to get an idea of the possible wait times, fees, procedures and documents you need to provide. Then you can make an informed decision.
Travelling is difficult for seniors, especially now, so better plan ahead.
So in my own case, I submitted on Oct 17, 2021. On Dec 13, 2021 I got a notification to log on to online account and saw that the IMM5406 was flagged incomplete, I went through the details and resubmitted Dec 14. So today, I asked the sponsor (Hubby) to check if he got any correspondence and he searched by IRCC since people were getting updates in this forum. Alas! they sent an email same Dec 13, asking for signed copy of IMM5406 and gave 30 days timeline which has since lapsedHi everyone,
I submitted my application on Nov 3rd, 2021
Yesterday got my first email, with a letter saying that my PA had a lot of missing information, which was submitted.
20 minutes later I got another email with another letter just requesting just the IMM5406 (Additional Family Information) because it was not submitted in the original application, which we submitted, I double-checked, so I guess it was a glitch in the system and they can't see it, I don't know.
Today I sent the email with the form they requested (one day later).
Does anyone know how long they are taking to answer for the next stage, after requesting information of this kind?
Also, they gave me an application number starting with XF#########, but I still can't link it to my GCKey account, is it too early?
Thanks in advance for the feedback you guys can give me
. You can imagine my shock cos we had resubmitted the same form through the online portal and had no idea they needed a copy signed by hand.We just sent the signed document to the email address indicated and hope that it is favourably considered. It is really funny how they send emails to different addresses regarding the same issue
.Fingers crossed, I am praying that they attend to it and give us the AOR.The XF no is not the application number, its just a code for incomplete ones I guess and we cant link successfully until AOR. Please keep us posted when you get a feedback from them.
Please I would suggest that anyone in this process, ask every applicant named and sponsor to keep checking their emails cos you cant tell who the email would be directed to.