Thanks for your reply - But im just curious why do they need medicals for a child who is not accompanied and in future when we sponsor the child again we may have to do Medicals again! little strange.... any insights why?
It is a bit odd. The background is that Canada will deny PR to applicants whose dependents
will be denied - because medical issues are a valid reason to deny a PR application. (Eg if your spouse is inadmissible/barred, you'll be denied too).
This makes sense for economic applicants (non-family sponsorship), where "cost of care" (or burden on healthcare system or whatever the official term is) is a valid reason to deny an app. Therefore it's logical to apply it to non-accompanying spouses and dependents - otherwise it would be easy to game the system by putting anyone with health issues as non-accompanying.
It doesn't make as much sense for family sponsorship - where there are no 'economic' health criteria, just public health risks. Since nowadays those public health risks are mostly considered treatable/manageable (eg tuberculosis), I'd argue it doesn't make sense. (
Arguably there are potentially some health issues - violent psychoses? I don't know - that would be untreatable and require this. But I don't know what they are)
[I don't know for certain but possible the medical examination of all PR applicants, accompanying or not, is mandated by law (for the historical reasons referred to ) - and if so, government will not spend the time to change it unless it's a problem for government]
Anyway, we can write and argue about it, but it's a long-standing requirement, and for your purposes - you need to get it done. If it still reqlly bugs you, write your MP.
