PR possible refusal after medical exam (heart disease)

[lifeinmtl]

Hi,

My family and I have applied for PR (not under family sponsorship) and we have completed the medical exam in March 2016. The problem is, my father has a heart disease (Ebstein's anomaly) and we are concerned if this could result a refusal for PR since it can fall under the category: immigrants with excessive demands.

My father, aged 52, was born with this heart disease and he is asymptomatic at this point. We sent additional medical documents of his heart condition including a letter from a doctor (not a cic doctor or panel physician) saying that he is asymptomatic and does not require any surgeries at this moment but a surgery could be necessary in the future. Although he does not show any fatal symptoms, the doctors at a local hospital have said that my father is simply "very lucky" that he is alive and not deadly sick. On his cardiology report, it is written that the right atrium of his heart is significantly large due to the disease and SaO2 is 80% which is way lower than the normal range.

When we mentioned his heart disease to the cic panel physician, the doctor said no matter which type of heart disease that a person has, almost every person with a heart disease gets refused for PR and that even getting a temporary visa (such as a work permit) would be impossible.

But would you consider what the panel physician has said is reliable? On one hand i think we shouldn't be too worried about what the panel physician said because it is eventually the cic doctor who will make the decision, not the panel physician. However on the other hand, i think he could be right because since he is a panel physician for immigration, he has seen many different cases for medical inadmissibility.

I have following questions:
1.Has anyone here had heart issues and applied for immigration, or know anything about medical inadmissibility due to heart diseases?
2. Would you say it really is possible that my father gets refused?
3. Are there any comments/advices on our situation?
4. If refused, around how long after the medical exam will we be notified?

Thank you for reading this. Our family feels very desperate about our situation and we don't have anywhere else to ask for advice.

 

[scylla]

Based on the information you have provided, I think it's certainly possible your father may be found medically inadmissible (if your father is refused, the entire application will be refused). If CIC determines that your father's health care condition has a good chance of costing the Canadian health care system more than $6,500 a year in any of the next 5-10 years, you should be expecting problems with the application. If your father requires surgery in the next 5-10 years, this will certainly exceed the $6,500 maximum. You should be concerned by what the panel physician has said. While they do not make the decisions, they are familiar with the process and understand what kind of cases typically case refusals.

If CIC plans to refuse your father, he will receive a letter from CIC where they will explain they plan to refuse him due to his medical condition and will give him a very limited amount of time to respond and prove why he will not be a medical burden to Canada. Based on the information you have provided, I think there's a very high chance you will receive this letter. You should start preparing the answer and evidence now. You will need to make a case (e.g. through doctor's notes, assessments of the cost of care in Canada, etc.) that the care your father will require in Canada won't exceed the maximum.

Rather than waiting for others to respond to this thread, you need to search this forum for terms like "fairness letter" and "medical inadmissibility" to see how others in the past have responded to CIC's letter. Good luck.

 

[gooDevil]

Hi,

My family and I have applied for PR (not under family sponsorship) and we have completed the medical exam in March 2016. The problem is, my father has a heart disease (Ebstein's anomaly) and we are concerned if this could result a refusal for PR since it can fall under the category: immigrants with excessive demands.

My father, aged 52, was born with this heart disease and he is asymptomatic at this point. We sent additional medical documents of his heart condition including a letter from a doctor (not a cic doctor or panel physician) saying that he is asymptomatic and does not require any surgeries at this moment but a surgery could be necessary in the future. Although he does not show any fatal symptoms, the doctors at a local hospital have said that my father is simply "very lucky" that he is alive and not deadly sick. On his cardiology report, it is written that the right atrium of his heart is significantly large due to the disease and SaO2 is 80% which is way lower than the normal range.

When we mentioned his heart disease to the cic panel physician, the doctor said no matter which type of heart disease that a person has, almost every person with a heart disease gets refused for PR and that even getting a temporary visa (such as a work permit) would be impossible.

But would you consider what the panel physician has said is reliable? On one hand i think we shouldn't be too worried about what the panel physician said because it is eventually the cic doctor who will make the decision, not the panel physician. However on the other hand, i think he could be right because since he is a panel physician for immigration, he has seen many different cases for medical inadmissibility.

I have following questions:
1.Has anyone here had heart issues and applied for immigration, or know anything about medical inadmissibility due to heart diseases?
2. Would you say it really is possible that my father gets refused?
3. Are there any comments/advices on our situation?
4. If refused, around how long after the medical exam will we be notified?

Thank you for reading this. Our family feels very desperate about our situation and we don't have anywhere else to ask for advice.

Hi Lifeinmtl,

Did you make any progress on the case?

Thanks.

 

[kbalakri958]

Hi Lifeinmtl, curious to know if your dad got the PR in the end? (hope he did!)

 

[Nayyarsah]

Hi Lifeinmtl i have same problem for my mom i applied in PGP 2020,was your case approved after??

 

[armoured]

Hi Lifeinmtl i have same problem for my mom i applied in PGP 2020,was your case approved after??

Asking users who have posted here only once and more than five years ago, is absolutely the worst way to get information here.