PR holder delivering baby in US

[Nataliia]

Hi All,

Myself and my wife are both permanent residents of Canada since 2014. I was relocated to US in April 2016 because of intracompany transfer. My wife is still staying in Canada being pregnant. Because I don’t want to miss the birth of the baby, we consider delivering baby in US, but we can’t figure out what visa requirement for a baby would be once my wife wants to get back to Canada. She might need to go there soon after baby born. Will the US birth certificate be enough? Do we need to apply for visa? As far as I understood we are not eligible to sponsor any family member until we have PR for at least five years.

Please advise

 

[Rob_TO]

Hi All,

Myself and my wife are both permanent residents of Canada since 2014. I was relocated to US in April 2016 because of intracompany transfer. My wife is still staying in Canada being pregnant. Because I don’t want to miss the birth of the baby, we consider delivering baby in US, but we can’t figure out what visa requirement for a baby would be once my wife wants to get back to Canada. She might need to go there soon after baby born. Will the US birth certificate be enough? Do we need to apply for visa? As far as I understood we are not eligible to sponsor any family member until we have PR for at least five years.

Please advise

There is no such thing as a 5 year rule in your case, you could sponsor the baby immediately. Only requirement is one of you needs to be physically residing in Canada during the process.

Baby can enter Canada as a visitor (no visa is needed as US citizens are visa-exempt) until PR app is approved. Depending on province, baby may not have any healthcare until 3 months AFTER becoming a PR which may be a 1 year process or so, so better get travel medical insurance until then.

Package for baby's PR app is here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/fc.asp

 

[ButterflyChemist]

Hi All,

Myself and my wife are both permanent residents of Canada since 2014. I was relocated to US in April 2016 because of intracompany transfer. My wife is still staying in Canada being pregnant. Because I don’t want to miss the birth of the baby, we consider delivering baby in US, but we can’t figure out what visa requirement for a baby would be once my wife wants to get back to Canada. She might need to go there soon after baby born. Will the US birth certificate be enough? Do we need to apply for visa? As far as I understood we are not eligible to sponsor any family member until we have PR for at least five years.

Please advise

Is it impossible for you to get time off and travel to canada for the birth instead of having your pregnant wife travel? You say she'd have to return to canada soon after the birth and that seems like she will be going through quite a bit just before and after birth. Is her travelling your only option?

 

[Nataliia]

That was our Plan A, but unfortunately paternity leave in US is only couple of weeks. On the other side she will be able to stay with me in US for 3-4 months.

 

[Leon]

As others have said, your wife can bring the baby back to Canada on an American passport. She can ask for a visitor record for the baby as she enters as with that, they can allow the baby to stay longer while she sponsors. She will have to sponsor the baby for PR. Depending on your province, the baby may or may not have health care. You need to get emergency insurance for the baby in that case.

Have you looked into the cost of delivery in the US or do you have insurance that covers it?

One advantage of doing this is that the baby will have US citizenship and if your wife eventually applies for Canadian citizenship, she can apply for the baby too and it will be a dual citizen.

 

[Nataliia]

As others have said, your wife can bring the baby back to Canada on an American passport. She can ask for a visitor record for the baby as she enters as with that, they can allow the baby to stay longer while she sponsors. She will have to sponsor the baby for PR. Depending on your province, the baby may or may not have health care. You need to get emergency insurance for the baby in that case.

Have you looked into the cost of delivery in the US or do you have insurance that covers it?

One advantage of doing this is that the baby will have US citizenship and if your wife eventually applies for Canadian citizenship, she can apply for the baby too and it will be a dual citizen.

I appreciate you answers!
We have good health insurance in US. I don't consider US citizenship as advantage, because Canada is our one and only love, but circumstances make us deliver baby in US. Thanks for the tips on health insurance in Canada. I hope to get some info from Alberta HC.

 

[Leon]

I appreciate you answers!
We have good health insurance in US. I don't consider US citizenship as advantage, because Canada is our one and only love, but circumstances make us deliver baby in US. Thanks for the tips on health insurance in Canada. I hope to get some info from Alberta HC.

Alberta is one of the most forgiving health cares in Canada so it is well possible that they will cover the baby based on the baby being her dependent and based on her sponsoring the baby for PR. Getting a visitor record for one year when she enters could be helpful here as I recall a case of a spouse who was covered under AB health stating that as a reason. AB health apparently told her that as she had been allowed to enter Canada with a one year visa, she satisfied the requirement of making her home in AB more than 6 months per year. Good luck to you. As a precaution, she should get short term emergency insurance for the baby until she knows about coverage just in case something happens before she gets that cleared up.