Medical

[Honeyko]

What will happen if my kids in the Philippines will not undergo medical examinations? They are not accompanying me here in Canada but they need to have their medicals done. My ex-husband doesnt want them to undergo medical.
Thanks.

 

[DaveSav]

Someone else might be able to give you a better answer but I believe that you can get an exclusion if your ex has custody and refuses it and you are able to prove this to the officer. The children would not be able to be sponsored in the future. The 'date' of 2006 in the URL is kind of old though so I'm not certain it hasn't changed.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/op/op02-eng.pdf

Officers should be open to the possibility that a client may not be able to make a family member
available for examination. If an applicant has done everything in their power to have their family
member examined but has failed to do so, and the officer is satisfied that they are aware of the
consequences of this (i.e., no future sponsorship possible), then a refusal of their application for
non-compliance would not be appropriate.
Officers must decide on a case-by-case basis using common sense and good judgment whether
to proceed with an application even if all family members have not been examined. Some
scenarios where this may likely occur include where an ex-spouse refuses to allow a child to be
examined or an overage dependant refuses to be examined. Proceeding in this way should be a
last resort and only after the officer is convinced that the applicant cannot make the family
member available for examination. The applicant themselves cannot choose not to have a family
member examined.

 

[wowsers]

Find out by asking a Filipino lawyer whether it is possible to get a court order in the Phillipines requiring the father to take the children to the examining physician for a medical examination. The medical exam is not a big deal: no invasive procedures for example. I suspect it is possible to get such a order, as it is in my country (UK). If not, you will have done everything possible to get them examined, which should satisfy CIC.

 

[zardoz]

What will happen if my kids in the Philippines will not undergo medical examinations? They are not accompanying me here in Canada but they need to have their medicals done. My ex-husband doesnt want them to undergo medical.
Thanks.

Who has legal custody of the children? Is it sole custody?

 

[Honeyko]

My children was under my parents custody since we ( ex- husband and i) went to work abroad. that was year 2005, but this year 2013 my ex-husbands mother and sister took my kids with my parents with out my permission.

 

[zardoz]

My children was under my parents custody since we ( ex- husband and i) went to work abroad. that was year 2005, but this year 2013 my ex-husbands mother and sister took my kids with my parents with out my permission.

In my humble opinion, you have much bigger issues to resolve than worrying about medical examinations.
How you sort this out will affect the rest of your life, and your children's, not just your application.