Hi,
We came to NB in May from the US and applied for Medicare immediately. We being my citizen husband, myself (at the time a visitor now a PR), and our one year old born in the US. Our daughter is a presumptive citizen though her citizenship certificate is still pending (and apparently citizenship certificates are low priority so very backed up), and CBSA let her in as a citizen so she has no stamp in her US passport, nor any sort of visa/visitor record etc since CBSA considers her a citizen. The problem is that NB medicare now wants us to provide proof from IRCC that she's a PR or TR or visitor, which of course isn't feasible since she's neither and not eligible for any of those statuses as a (presumptive) citizen...
We've contacted IRCC and CBSA and they both say there's nothing they can give us to show she's here as a citizen, so we're stumped. Anyone encountered anything similar in NB or elsewhere and found a solution? We've written them a letter explaining but have little hope of them accepting it so trying to plan ahead. (These are after all the folks who tried to tell my husband he couldn't get medicare because he didn't have a valid working permit or PR status so there was no proof of his lawful status in Canada while looking at his Canadian passport.)
We came to NB in May from the US and applied for Medicare immediately. We being my citizen husband, myself (at the time a visitor now a PR), and our one year old born in the US. Our daughter is a presumptive citizen though her citizenship certificate is still pending (and apparently citizenship certificates are low priority so very backed up), and CBSA let her in as a citizen so she has no stamp in her US passport, nor any sort of visa/visitor record etc since CBSA considers her a citizen. The problem is that NB medicare now wants us to provide proof from IRCC that she's a PR or TR or visitor, which of course isn't feasible since she's neither and not eligible for any of those statuses as a (presumptive) citizen...
We've contacted IRCC and CBSA and they both say there's nothing they can give us to show she's here as a citizen, so we're stumped. Anyone encountered anything similar in NB or elsewhere and found a solution? We've written them a letter explaining but have little hope of them accepting it so trying to plan ahead. (These are after all the folks who tried to tell my husband he couldn't get medicare because he didn't have a valid working permit or PR status so there was no proof of his lawful status in Canada while looking at his Canadian passport.)