sb414 said:
The medical in Santo Domingo is $200 usd. You don't need to make an appointment, you just go and it's first come first serve. I believe they stop taking people around 11, so go early like 7am
My wife did two sets of medicals.. once at the time we filed the application and the next because we were over 12 months when CIC finally requested the medicals. Hopefully CIC will be faster now... but I would get your application in asap and don't delay to get the medicals... you have to decide if you want to wait a bit.. perhaps don't get medical until they acknowledge receipt of the Application (that took a month in my case) ....or may be after they approve you as sponsor ( that took another month)..or after they advise the file has gone to the embassy in Mexico where this gets reviewed even though it is DR ( which took another month) ... the next time I heard in respect of the application review was in the 14th month after I sent in the application, which was over 12 months after I was approved as sponsor.. then because we were outside the 12 month, CIC required another medical etc... apparently time-line for processing is speeding up, so maybe no longer a concern, but had I known (had I been on this site earlier) I would have waited at least until after they advised that the file had been sent to the Canadian Embassy in Mexico, which took 3 months month to receive after I submitted it.
I had mistakenly thought getting the medical done right away would be efficient... became problematic because my wife became pregnant in the 10th month after we submitted, and notwithstanding ZIKA Virus concerns, nothing I could do could speed it up. Then when they finally got to the file, we were over 12 months and CIC wanted another medical with X-rays.. and CIC then said we could wait ( which would delay the file until next year), for Xrays because of medical concern on x rays and prenatal baby... just saying. Had i waited the 3 months and got the medicals done , we would have been in the 12 month range... just saying... but i hear CIC is speeding up, so maybe it is not a problem now... still I doubt it will take less than 6 months so.... decide.
