Hi,
I married a Canadian citizen 3 months ago and it turns out I'm expecting, due April. I'm on a visitors visa here and have yet to send in an application for a PR which has been delayed because of police certificates of the various countries I've lived in having a process time of up to 3 months.
The plan initially was that I'd apply for a work permit once the PR application was accepted. However, given the time frame I don't believe I would be able to receive OHIP in time for birth. My husband works on contractual basis and thus has no company provided health insurance that he could add me onto.
He doesn't want me to return to my home country (Sweden) to have the baby as he would not be able to be with me, and I would be alone since I have no family left there. I managed to obtain an appointment with the community care midwives centre but from reading various threads in this forum on delivery costs for visitors, I'm worried. What would the fee be per visit roughly and how much would it cost now, to have a baby without OHIP. The midwives centre said the visits,scans and tests would be free but upon reflection I feel this is too good to be true, perhaps they misunderstood my residency status? I'd appreciate any advice you may have for me that would be helpful in this situation.
I married a Canadian citizen 3 months ago and it turns out I'm expecting, due April. I'm on a visitors visa here and have yet to send in an application for a PR which has been delayed because of police certificates of the various countries I've lived in having a process time of up to 3 months.
The plan initially was that I'd apply for a work permit once the PR application was accepted. However, given the time frame I don't believe I would be able to receive OHIP in time for birth. My husband works on contractual basis and thus has no company provided health insurance that he could add me onto.
He doesn't want me to return to my home country (Sweden) to have the baby as he would not be able to be with me, and I would be alone since I have no family left there. I managed to obtain an appointment with the community care midwives centre but from reading various threads in this forum on delivery costs for visitors, I'm worried. What would the fee be per visit roughly and how much would it cost now, to have a baby without OHIP. The midwives centre said the visits,scans and tests would be free but upon reflection I feel this is too good to be true, perhaps they misunderstood my residency status? I'd appreciate any advice you may have for me that would be helpful in this situation.