My dependent child I have from a woman that I was never married to - I declared her as a non-accompanying dependent child. She did upfront medical examination earlier in 2020 and passed but throughout the validity of the medical, processing of my application was not completed. IRCC then sent me a medical request three months to the expiry of the upfront medical and the mother of this same dependent child showed up with hell. She completely refused and unwilling to release the child to under medical examination and remained deliberately incommunicado.
I booked and paid for the child medical with IOM Lagos, reached out to my child’s grandmother, Uncle and other relatives and no body seemed to know her whereabouts. I sent to her email detailed explanation stating that all was for the benefit of the child future and explained the possibility of her being sponsored by her child later but got no response. I sent the same detailed explanation to her via WhatsApp and SMS, but all was to no avail. I further travelled from Lagos to Abuja went to Gwarimpa and (Kubwa – outskate of FCT) Nigeria her last known addresses and was told she had since parked out of those neighborhoods. While in Abuja I went to worship at House on the Rock Church on a Sunday – where the elder sister of my child’s mother attends church just to see if I could be lucky to meet her sister to enable me to locate my child’s mother. I was told that she has not been seen in church for a while. I gave the two numbers of my child’s mother to a pastor to help me reach out to my daughter’s mother – the pastor tried several calls with no response, two weeks later I called the pastor to confirm if he got through to her, but he informed me that he had no response.
I returned to Lagos called and gave detailed update of my sincere effort to her uncle who attested to being a witness to how far I have tried.
I wrote to IRCC a letter of explanation and supported with an affidavit as to why I have not been able to present the child for medicals due to circumstances beyond my control. I requested that my non accompanying dependent child be excluded from my application on humanitarian and companionate grounds for the sake of my four younger children and my legally married wife whose future might be in jeopardy. I further deposed that I understood the implication of excluding the child from my application and consented to that I was losing my right to sponsor her now and, in the future, and that by that exclusion she is ineligible to be sponsored under my family class.
After several reminder webforms and emails to IRCC, my profile changed from “Your action is required” of me back to “submitted” with an update under medical review “We have not received the required medical results, kindly check details in your messages below” This to me means either the VO has not seen all my webforms and attachments or he/she is yet to consider my request. I sent another webform hoping things change for better. Please can someone help me, what next should i do?
