You have to be prepared to be potentially separated from your wife and child for 5-11 months because one parent must be in Canada to sponsor the child. It is really a personal preference.
Wife pregnant after COPR and PPR
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Yes that’s not a problem. You just need to make sure to land before the baby is born or list the child as non-accompanying if you are landing after the child is born.
If you have the baby before landing, you will need to add him/her to your app. You will have to return the COPRs/visas, as they will no longer be valid. The child will be added and you will all get PR together.
@mapledream19, @maheshmit, @rohitcem I am in a similar situation. have you guys got any solution for this?
@mapledream19 have you landed yet?
@mapledream19 have you landed yet?
Guys I am in the same positions. My CoPR expires in Aug and Can not travel now due to Covid. Indian govt banned international flights till July end and my wife will be 3 months pregnant after July.
If I inform IRCC and they ask me to reopen the application, does that mean my application will be assessed from the starting..IELTS etc or just that the baby will be added to application ??
I am fine with long waiting as long as i dont need to get into the pool again waiting for the CRS draw score to reach mine.
If I inform IRCC and they ask me to reopen the application, does that mean my application will be assessed from the starting..IELTS etc or just that the baby will be added to application ??
I am fine with long waiting as long as i dont need to get into the pool again waiting for the CRS draw score to reach mine.
Any updates? Im in similar situation, wife pregnant after Copr and delivery just a week after copr expiry.
We are in the same situation, expecting in December. COPR expiry in December, medicals too. Due to covid we decided not to travel. This is my plan
Once the baby is delivered, I am going to write to CIC using the webform stating the circumstances covid + childbirth and I guess they will reopen the case revoke COPR and request to provide details of the child after birth and re-issuance the COPR along with the child. This could take 6 months or so but its worth the wait than taking any sort of risk rushing to Canada now as anyways we were thinking of only soft landing and not migrating. Currently we are in the US
Hey, I am in a similar situation. Could you tell whether there is an option of reopening the application with the child added, without going through the pool, CRS draw and IELTS again?
You have had sinice December 2019 to land and you’re in the US. You can easily land. People have been able to land at a land border and turn around right away or others have landed by air, quarantined for 14 days and returned home. Not sure how you can justify that you have been unable to land.
You both have had COPR for a long time. It sounds like you had COPR since Jan or Feb 2020 and you live in the US. Plenty of people landing at the land border while being able to reenter the US right away or fly in, quarantine for 14 days and return to the US. Many in your situation have been landing or doing soft landings.
It's a personal choice, do I want to risk an unborn just for a PR ? NO for me. Secondly, the IRCC website clearly states "first time landing for PR and NOT planning to settle is not essential and do no do it"? So people still doing it is their choice and since Canadian immigration officers are friendly it does not mean you can exploit it. I see this has been a general problem with people thinking only about themself and then if the government changes policy tomorrow they complain. Same thing with US H1B visa abuse, fraud etc..
The driving to the border is not for everyone, not for people who stay away from the borders, again its random luck that they will let you turn around
So to cut it short yes there is a lot of ways to justify "Why we could not travel"!
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