Both of you are in Canada right? So this medical surveillance is likely due to your husband being in Canada already and having inactive TB diagnosed after an IME. Inactive TB is a public health concern. Typically, medical surveillance is started upon landing/coming to the country, but in this case, both of you are in Canada and this surveillance has been deemed necessary while you are residing here and waiting for the results of the PR application..Drv said:Hi pat. He did all sputum n culture in february and after that our status updated with "medical received " on may. Than in july we got surveillance letter. We visited public health today and they said that he has to pass through sputum test and skin test again. So i have question that cic will wait for the report of surveillance or they will continue their process. I got confused . I cant getting process steps.
Before coming to Canada, did both of you have a medical exam before and this was not diagnosed or the sputum test and other procedures were not done? See here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/medical/medexams-temp.asp
Although Inactive TB is a public health concern, diagnosis does not immediately lead into outright refusal on medical grounds. The application will continue to be processed, and your medical assessment has likely been done. More here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/medic/surveillance/surveillance.asp
The requirement of Public Health authority for these procedures are part of medical surveillance, but are not additional requirements under medical checks for your application. The surveillance is a result of the completion of the medical checks/IME of your application.
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