Hello

[Emmabel]

Why did cic cancel unfront medical exams for family class?

 

[profiler]

Because the processing times were so long that many of them we're expiring before cases could be evaluated.

 

[danawhitaker]

Because the processing times were so long that many of them we're expiring before cases could be evaluated.

But they're often asking for the medical exams almost immediately after AOR anyway, so that excuse seems to be pretty weak at this point.

 

[profiler]

But they're often asking for the medical exams almost immediately after AOR anyway, so that excuse seems to be pretty weak at this point.

Considering my wife is one of those who had to redo for being 3 months out of validity, I can tell you that at least for now it's a good policy to make sure they're not.slipping out of validity while the applicant is waiting...unless they're made of money or have a medical examiner next door...then sure just let them expire!

 

[danawhitaker]

Considering my wife is one of those who had to redo for being 3 months out of validity, I can tell you that at least for now it's a good policy to make sure they're not.slipping out of validity while the applicant is waiting...unless they're made of money or have a medical examiner next door...then sure just let them expire!

If someone wants to wait, that should be their choice too. I can understand it for certain visa offices, or people who were applying inland under the older system. But I think it would be better to give people the choice. Those of us who applied to visa offices that traditionally have faster processing times could make that decision for ourselves. The cost of trying to do it in the U.S. vs Canada for me would have ended up being about three times the cost just for the exam itself, ignoring the fact that the distance to the nearest one (which was still within IRCC's acceptable distance range, or very close to it) would have likely required also paying for hotel and other travel expenses. Panel physician access in Ontario, where I am (and where you are, from other posts I've seen) is great. Panel physician access in the U.S. isn't great if you live outside very major cities. I came from a city about the size of London (Ontario), and didn't have one that I considered to be a reasonable distance to travel to. There were none within my state at all.

Many Outland visa offices were already under the 12 month processing time before the new system went into effect. As an Inland applicant, your wife at least had the advantage of being close to quite a few reasonably-priced panel physicians. It feels like the new system is very much skewed in favor of applicants who are already residing in or "visiting" Canada the entire time their application is processing. If I could have just gone to any doctor in my city, it wouldn't have been as much of a consideration.

All they've done with these changes is introduce delay and frustration into the process for many applicants. I'm glad I applied when I did, as I was able to just do everything upfront, send everything in, and not worry about mandatory back and forth communication with IRCC that may or may not get properly sent that could actually affect the processing of my application if I didn't respond to it.