Pregnant Common-Law partner wishing to give birth in Canada

[GoodAfternoon]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for checking out my post. Wondering if anyone has aver had experience of making an application for either permanent residency or TRV for a common law partner who is pregnant.

The specifics of my case are that my partner is 5 weeks pregnant, we have roughly a 5 month window in witch to be able to fly on a plane safely. And that we have already applied more than 6 months ago for a TRV for her witch was denied saying that there was not reasonable evidence to prove she would leave Canada after the visit. And also since she is residing in Morocco and she is native of Senegal that she should make the application from her native country.

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[truesmile]

Welcome to the forum? Have you already submitted application for "PR - Common Law" at this point? If you did, was it 'inland' or 'outland'?

 

[scylla]

Unfortunately I don't see how your partner will be able to give birth in Canada.

Since she has already been refused a TRV once and given her country of origin - I think it's almost guaranteed she would be refused again if she applied now.

She won't be able to complete the PR application process before giving birth for several reasons. First of all, there isn't sufficient time. Secondly, she won't be able to complete the required medical since it includes an x-ray. She can't have the x-ray until after she gives birth since the x-ray could harm your unborn child.

I would recommend that you start the PR application now and complete as much of the medical as you can. When you submit the application you should include a letter informing immigration that your partner is pregnant and can't complete the medical for this reason - but will have the x-ray done right after the baby is born. Again, there's no chance your partner will have PR status before the baby is born - but you can at least kick start the process now so that there's hopefully less waiting later.

 

[GoodAfternoon]

At this point I am contemplating making an PR application on my next visit to Canada (in a few days). Like you are both saying another TRV application would probably not be useful.

I also assume that an x-ray for medical exams can't be done at this juncture, and has to be done by an authorized doctor at the time of the acceptance?

Do representatives specializing in immigration ever have a solution to these kind of situations?

Anyway thanks for your information, and have a great day

 

[scylla]

At this point I am contemplating making an PR application on my next visit to Canada (in a few days). Like you are both saying another TRV application would probably not be useful.

I also assume that an x-ray for medical exams can't be done at this juncture, and has to be done by an authorized doctor at the time of the acceptance?

Do representatives specializing in immigration ever have a solution to these kind of situations?

Anyway thanks for your information, and have a great day

The medical must be done by an authorized doctor. It's up to you if you do the x-ray or not. You can do it. However the majority of doctors strongly advise against it since this could harm your unborn child. Is this really something you want to risk?

 

[truesmile]

Do representatives specializing in immigration ever have a solution to these kind of situations?

No, they just charge you money to tell you the same thing. The applications that they "proof read" (again for a fee), get no more special attention at CIC than anyone else's.

 

[Rob_TO]

The specifics of my case are that my partner is 5 weeks pregnant, we have roughly a 5 month window in witch to be able to fly on a plane safely.

At this point I am contemplating making an PR application on my next visit to Canada (in a few days). Like you are both saying another TRV application would probably not be useful.

I would give up on the idea that your baby could be born in Canada. As others mentioned, you should wait until the baby is born and then submit the application for spouse/partner + 1 dependent child.

If you are starting from scratch, just getting all the police checks and other documentation needed from each country your partner has resided in over the past 10 years, then getting everything translated, usually takes weeks if not months.

Right now stage 1 processing from Mississauga is taking from 1-2 months. Then for stage 2, well if you can apply through Rabat-Morocco 50% of cases are done in max of 6 months. However if you need to apply through Dakar-Senegal 50% of cases take 18 months to complete. Either way there is a practically zero chance you would get COPR within 5 months time from today.

Also even if you did get your partner here with a PR, depending on the province you may need to wait another 3 months for healthcare so it could cost you a small fortune ($5K - $10K) to have your baby delivered here.

 

[GoodAfternoon]

These are all interesting and valid points!

 

[Sweden]

Also - if you're Canadian yourself, the baby will be Canadian most likely ( you can check for your specific situation on CIC website here http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/rules/index.asp ), so when you sponsor your partner you won't need to add the baby - you will need to apply for a proof of citizenship and later on a passport.
If you're a PR of Canada, then your baby won't be Canadian and will need to be sponsored together with the mother. But you can already apply for the PR for the mother, and just mention ( for medicals, but also in general) that your partner is pregnant. Once the baby is born, update your file with the Visa Office - either adding somebody to be sponsored, or adding the information about a new member of family, but already Canadian, depending on the case.
Good luck,
Sweden