Re: pregnant while landing in canada

[BARA]

HI

MY WIFE WILL COME WITH WORK PERMIT with me TO Lethbridge in Alberta IN 15-9 AND SHE IS pregnant and she will give birth in the mid of December, Is she eligible for AB health card? and if she eligible what about the costs?
and if anyone have the case before could tell me?

 

[Leon]

If your wife is coming to AB on a work permit, she will be covered by AB health from the first day. You would have to apply for health cards at a registry office. You would need to show your passports, work permits and some mail showing an AB address. Could be a bank statement, utility bill etc. Some people have, in order to get a piece of paper with an AB address on it, just asked a bank as soon as they had opened a bank account to print out a statement for them right away and such letters have been accepted.

There will be no cost to you unless you use an ambulance to get her to the hospital. For that, you would have to pay. Last I heard, it was around $100.