Help needed for Generic Application Form for family sponsor (IMM 0008)

[kalisana]

Hi all,
I am being sponsored by my PR husband. Now I have lived apart from my country of Nationality, in one of the European countries as a student for more than 5 years. Currently I am in Canada for six months and we are applying under inland application. Now on the above form I need to choose an Immigration Office requested for the processing of my application (once the first stage is approved by CPC vegreville) and we do not want to choose our country of nationality because of the long processing time. My question therefore is that:

1) Can I choose a VISA OFFICE within Canada since I am applying inland or should I go for the VO in the EU country I lived in. I would want to say that I am on visitor visa and just for single entry so if I chose a country outside Canada would this put me on any risk of leaving Canada at one point?

Secondly, we have just learnt that I am expecting our first child and I am 8 weeks pregnant. For this reason, our doctor said I cannot do any chest X-ray for the risk of my health and my baby's. He therefore wrote a letter on this and signed it stating that at my condition we are not able to provide medicals until after delivery.

question
2) Will this delay our application if we submit all the applications with a missing medical test?
3) Do I need to undertake all the rest of the test and submit and do the X-RAY later or is it wise for me to just wait for the full test once I deliver?

Any advise will be highly appreciated as we are so worried now and unfortunately my visa will be expiring in the next 3 weeks so I need to submit this ASAP.
Thank you

 

[Sweden]

If you are applying Inland, your application will stay in Canada - that's the whole point of applying Inland.
So if you apply inland, your application goes to Vegreville, and then might be transferred to a local CIC office. But it won't be transferred to an office outside of Canada - that's for outland only.

So choose Vegreville as office processing your application, and that's it.

Medicals : yes, it will delay your file because you are not able to do the X-ray until you give birth. You can choose to do part of the medicals, + add the certificate from your doctor, and wait for CIC to ask for the second part of the medicals - chances are that by then you will have given birth. Or you could just sent the letter and explain why you are not doing the medicals, and state that you will do them once you have had your baby. Eitherway, they won't finalise your application until you have the medicals completed.

Congrats on the pregnancy!
Sweden

 

[kalisana]

Thank you so much Sweden for this reply. It actually encourages to hear another opinion. One more question please, on the generic form it is recommended for us to fill the immigration office apart from Vegreville. I am currently living in Calgary and I came across this page for VO in Calgary. Do you think I should just include it?

Harry Hays Building
220 4th Avenue, SE, Room 210
Calgary, AB
T2G 4X3
Thank you once more

 

[Sweden]

I'm not sure because I did the outland process so I'm less familiar. From what I understand for Inland is that all applications go to vegreville first for stage 1. Once that's done ( more or less 6 months), then Vegreville sends it to a local office, based on the applicant's residence. So most likely they will know that yours should go to Calgary.

Also - just to make sure - did you include an Open work permit application? You need to include that in order to have implied status. Plus - it will give you the possibility to work once stage 1 is done ( but if you're pregnant, it might not be something you want right away, but it will be practical to have it anyway, so I would recommend to include it.)

Good luck,
Sweden

 

[Sweden]

here is the inland thread for 2012, so you will find people that have done the process and now waiting to hear back from CIC, so if you need more precise answers ( on some forms etc), you could ask there http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/inland-applications-2012-t90875.3225.html

Most people are doing the outland process, so it's the vast majority, but Inland has also a nice "support group"!
Sweden

 

[kalisana]

Thank you again.
Yes we will include the OWP as well I believe it will be useful for me to work even on a part time basis later on. We have also applied to extend my visitor visa so that we can get health cover until the approval of sponsorship.

Its quite stressfull but hope we will be done with it soon.

thanks for the help

 

[Sweden]

you seem to have everything under control - and with inland, the rejection rate is pretty low. With a baby on the way, you have an even stronger application, so no need to worry! once it's sent, it's mostly about waiting it out!
Just to confirm: once you have sent your application in, you are not supposed to leave Canada for any reason, as it might cancel your application. (just adding that because you mentioned something about EU visa office, and maybe going there).
Sweden