Birth tourism

[virgilia.s]

Dear members,

I am currently pregnant (13weeks) and residing in Dubai. I plan to visit Calgary, Alberta and deliver the child there. Please provide me your inputs on the same. Is any members who have done this for their child kindly let me of the process and also the legality of the same.

TIA,

Br,
Virgilia

 

[scylla]

Dear members,

I am currently pregnant (13weeks) and residing in Dubai. I plan to visit Calgary, Alberta and deliver the child there. Please provide me your inputs on the same. Is any members who have done this for their child kindly let me of the process and also the legality of the same.

TIA,

Br,
Virgilia

You need an approved TRV to visit Canada.

You have to be prepared to pay for all costs of the birth out of pocket. This can run anywhere from around $7K to over a million dollars if there are complications. You will not be covered by Canada's health care system.

If CBSA officials suspect your reasons for visiting Canada are birth tourism, they may refuse you entry to Canada and send you on the first flight back home.

 

[scylla]

Just to add - you should be aware that having a baby in Canada will give your baby Canadian citizenship. However there will be no benefits for you. You will be required to leave Canada at the end of your allowed stay as a tourist.

 

[virgilia.s]

Just to add - you should be aware that having a baby in Canada will give your baby Canadian citizenship. However there will be no benefits for you. You will be required to leave Canada at the end of your allowed stay as a tourist.

Hello,

Thank you so much for your input. We plan to apply for a PR soon, but since that will take time I thought of delivering the child there first. I happened to come across a write-up wherein it said that birth tourism is allowed,

https://www.infoplacecanada.ca/single-post/2017/07/30/Having-a-Baby-in-Canada-as-a-Visitor

Please let me know of your inputs and knowledge on the same. Appreciate all your help on this matter.

Br,
Virgilia

 

[Bs65]

Plus see this news article how costs can escalate if any problems

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/unit...dian-hospital-sues-mother-million-dollar-baby

Here is the official policy

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...ishing-enter-canada-purpose-giving-birth.html

 

[scylla]

Hello,

Thank you so much for your input. We plan to apply for a PR soon, but since that will take time I thought of delivering the child there first. I happened to come across a write-up wherein it said that birth tourism is allowed,

https://www.infoplacecanada.ca/single-post/2017/07/30/Having-a-Baby-in-Canada-as-a-Visitor

Please let me know of your inputs and knowledge on the same. Appreciate all your help on this matter.

Br,
Virgilia

You can certainly have a child in Canada if you manage to enter Canada as a visitor.

If you apply for a TRV stating your purpose is birth tourism - expect refusal. And as explained before, the CBSA officer can refuse you entry and send you home when you arrive if they suspect your reasons for visiting are birth tourism. This can and does happen.

So effectively nothing is guaranteed until you've successfully entered Canada. And once you enter Canada, you must have the funds to pay for all care you receive.

 

[Rob_TO]

Hello,

Thank you so much for your input. We plan to apply for a PR soon, but since that will take time I thought of delivering the child there first. I happened to come across a write-up wherein it said that birth tourism is allowed,

https://www.infoplacecanada.ca/single-post/2017/07/30/Having-a-Baby-in-Canada-as-a-Visitor

Please let me know of your inputs and knowledge on the same. Appreciate all your help on this matter.

Br,
Virgilia

Sure it's allowed (as long as you don't openly advertise that is your sole purpose to visit Canada), as long as you have the money to pay for everything. Also the baby (even though Canadian) will not be covered by healthcare since parents are not covered, meaning you also must pay for all post-natal care of the baby.

Also having a Canadian baby will do nothing to help you immigrate to Canada. If you are planning to apply for PR later anyways, it's really not worth the minimum $10,000 to possibly many hundred thousands of dollars going through this process uninsured may cost you. Just add the baby to your later PR app, and they can eventually get citizenship later anyways.

 

[zardoz]

Note the last paragraph of https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...ishing-enter-canada-purpose-giving-birth.html

This is very important as inadmissibility would kill any chance of a PR application.

However, pregnancy or the intent to give birth in Canada may be material facts in the assessment of the application which, if we are not advised of the pregnancy, may go unexamined; such facts may be material to the assessment of arrangements for treatment, of the financial ability to cover the costs of treatment, or of the intent to depart from Canada, for example. Therefore, in some cases the intentional concealment of intent to give birth in Canada may lead to an examination of admissibility under A40.

 

[foodie69]

Expensive!!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canad...r-for-more-than-300k-in-unpaid-fees-1.3973661

 

[zardoz]

Expensive!!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canad...r-for-more-than-300k-in-unpaid-fees-1.3973661

I bet that they never see a cent of the outstanding amount.

 

[foodie69]

Yep..

 

[carolbb23]

What is with birth tourism especially for countries like Canada and USA. Australia and other countries are quite strict about babies who are born who do not have a parent whose a citizen or pr I wish Canada and USA have same policy as Australia,Japan and other counteries

 

[carolbb23]

Expensive!!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canad...r-for-more-than-300k-in-unpaid-fees-1.3973661

I read the story and you know what good luck because be tough to drag them from China to Canada to pay up basically the frigging woman got free health care