PROCESS IF YOU HAVE A CHILD

[JJREBEIRO]

CAN ANYONE HELP ME ? MY HUSBAND AND I ARE HAVING A BABY. THE BABY IS DUE IN AUGUST 2011.
WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR LANDING AND WE ACTUALLY SCHEDULED OURSELVES TO LEAVE FOR CANADA IN JANUARY 2012. HOWEVER WITH THE BABY COMING I DONT KNOW WHAT THE PROCEDURES AND WHOM TO CONTACT.
PLEASE CAN ANYONE ASSIST. THANK YOU.

 

[mamoo]

BEING A PR HOLDER AND LIVING OUTSIDE CANADA DURING THE TIME YOUR CHILD BORN IN THAT CASE YOU HAVE TO SPONSOR YOUR CHILD TO TAKE THEM WITH YOU IN CANADA. IT IS ADVISABLE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR CHILD TO BE BORN IN CANADA SO HE/SHE BECOME BORN CITIZEN.

 

[Leon]

Since you have already landed, you are already PR and so you will need to sponsor the baby for PR. As a PR yourself, you must be in Canada to sponsor. If the baby will be visa exempt to go to Canada, depends on your nationality, you can go in Jan. 2012 as planned and sponsor the baby after you have arrived. If the baby is not visa exempt, you will need to apply for a TRV for the baby. If the TRV is not approved (based on the baby not staying in Canada temporarily), you can try for TRP. If the TRP is not approved either, one of you must go to Canada and apply to sponsor the baby while the other waits with the baby in your homeland.

 

[RobsLuv]

Hold on a second - if the child is born outside of Canada to permanent residents, the child will need to be sponsored for permanent residence in order to come to Canada. If the PRs come to Canada before the child is born, and the baby is born in Canada, it will be a Canadian citizen and, therefore, will not need to be sponsored.

So, you have the choice to come back to Canada prior to the birth so the child will be born a Canadian citizen - or you can choose to have the child born in your country and then you will have to sponsor him/her for permanent status. Permanent residents are required to be living and working in Canada in order to be eligible to sponsor other family members, including dependent children. That means that if the parents don't move to Canada before the child is born, one of them will have to come to Canada afterwards, and settle here in order to sponsor the child. Whether or not the child is admitted to Canada as a temporary resident before being granted permanent status is not guaranteed, regardless of whether the child is visa-exempt to Canada or not. The family could be separated for the duration of the PR application for the child. If the intention is for the family to settle in Canada, then you should make that move before the child is born. If there is no intention to settle in Canada, then what's the point of having permanent status in Canada in the first place?

 

[Ario]

Returning to Canada to give birth to the baby will be the most convenient way if you don't want to be bothered with sponsorship procedures. Most companies give maternity leave ,that would be the right time to travel to Canada to have the baby