@canuck_in_uk hello ,please please i need your advice, our AOR is may 2017 ,we cannot provide the medical of a dependant cause her mother has sole custody so we hire a lawyer and contact the mother and she wrote an affidavit of her refusal and we sent the court document,a letter of explanation asking to exclude the child form the application and that we are aware that we will not be able to sponser her in the future and we get notarized it ,to be noted that the elligibility is passed and background check is cleared , but our medical are expired so cic request the medical for me and my husband and also the child (from another mother ) ,so we havent the medical for me and my husband and we sent gain all the explanations that we cannot get the medical for the child. i just checked the status of my application ,and in the medicla section they wrote that they didnt receive the medicla exam !! how come that ,we sent the LOE explainig why we couldnt afford the medical exam for the child ...kindly advise