sending updated documents without request

[basketballfan]

I was thinking that my husband should redo his medicals and his police clearances. This September his medical will be expired by 2 years and the police clearances will be approaching 2 years. Our cases notes made mention of the upcoming expiry. Will they reject the documents ?

 

[jamsham12]

There is no reason to redo the medical without a request CIC often extends the medicals so the best thing to do is waiting until you get confirmation from CIC to redo the medicals. With the police clearance if you have an updated copy of the clearance, I would send it to the VO as soon as possible as that would delay the processing of your application if you wait to get the request from the VO.

 

[basketballfan]

Ok, will definitely update the police clearances. Thought the VO could only extend the medical a year beyond its expiry? In my case notes it says, 'meds expire Sep 2014 no new one requested' . So Sep 2015 would be beyond 1 year?

 

[Ponga]

CIC has changed the rules for PCC letters. They are now valid for more than 3 months. In your husband's case, his PCC letter must be issued after he was last in that country, but it does not expire in 3 months.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/intro.asp

For the country you currently live in, the police certificate must be issued no more than six months before you apply.

For countries where you have lived for six months or more, the police certificate must be issued after the last time you lived in that country.

Now...the $64k question is, whether or not CIC will apply this, retroactively, to those that have previously submitted a PCC. They should, but...that probably doesn't mean much with CIC. It might be worth a call, citing this recent change.

Good luck!