Seniors Advice Please

[Reserve]

We are PR of Canada. We landed there in March this year and strayed there for one month. Currently my wife is pregnant (advanced stage; third trimester) and we would like to move soon permanently in Canada. Reaching there we need to apply for OHIP Card immediately. During OHIP application if I hide the information that we were out of Canada for few months, then what will happen? Can they find out that we are hiding the information? Any experience about that? If they find out later on, then does this cause any effect on your immigration status? I am sorry for asking such like question and this is because of my wife's critical health situation. She need to be paid attention by few specialist (Gynecologist, Endocrinologist & Internal Medicine Specialist) there immediately. To be honest, may be I am not going to do this but thinking about the cost of private consultation with the specialist, it comes in my mind. Any positive advices or alternative suggestions? ....Please help.

 

[steaky]

Ontario OHIP need 3 months waiting period. Perhaps you can go to other provinces (such as Manitoba, SK and Alberta) which don't have waiting periods.

 

[toby]

Is having the baby where you are now not a good idea?

Doing so would avoid the risk of misleading OHIP (they might take punitive action if they ever found out). Doing so would also avoid the moral indelicacy of settling temporarily in a province simply to have the baby free (i.e. those taxpayers pay for it), and then go back to Ontario -- thus not paying any compensating taxes to the province that paid your medical expenses.

Your choice, of course.