Upfront medical exam appointment and declining ITA dilemma

[vismay101]

Hello friends,

I got my ITA (for CEC) on February 24th, 2016. My appointment for medical exam is on March 23. Since I got married I have to decline my ITA as I would now have to include my wife's name. So even if I decline ITA, can I still do my upfront medical exam?
I will be reapplying in April and I am hopeful that I will get ITA by end of April. I called CEC they said that whether you do your medical exam with or without ITA is upto me, it should be valid for 1 year and atleast 6 months when your application gets accepted. Even the doctor with whom I have an appointment told me that she just sends all information through eMedical to Health Department, she has no idea regarding this. I have been looking on the internet but could not find anything concrete.

If anyone has an idea about this please reply.

Thank you

 

[ajanarth]

Your medical tests are valid 6 months to a year, just make sure you get the upfront medical report which has your photo and a UMI # on it.

 

[vismay101]

Thanks ajanarth, but the medical report is directly sent to Immigration Dept through eMedical. So you mean that the medical form which I am supposed to get to upload it along with my other documents in express entry should have my photo and UMI number?