tarik34 said:
Non accompanying dependents still need to complete a medical. This shouldn't have been a surprised to youYou will have to send a letter to CIC explaining that
the father refuses to allow the child to do the medical.
You should provide a letter or email from the father where
he states that he will not take the child for the medical.
If the father has sole custody of the child, you should provide the court documents that prove this. When you write to CIC, you should also say that you understand that by failing to do this medical, you understand that the child will no longer
be classified as a member of your family and can never be sponsored by you in the future.
Hello Mumay Fort,
Don't worry about any of this. There are plenty of people both on this thread and countrywide who have been through this. I have two dependents in the same situation. I conferred with two local immigration attorneys here in BC who advised that you will need to submit a notarized letter as described above, declaring your understanding that you cannot sponsor them in the future.
The claim that you can never in the future sponsor your children while a little dramatic, at present is true. However, if you examine anything about Canadian immigration law is that is in constant evolution. Old streams are discontinued and new streams become available on an almost annual basis. You never know what the future holds and you may have the opportunity to sponsor an adult child in the future. Unfortunately, it is not presently possible.
The submitted notarized letter will eventually waive the need for a Medical Exam, Police Certificate and application fee.
In our circumstance, I had drafted the letter and notarized it in order to waive requirements of my two non-accompanying dependents. Soon after, they actually came to Canada for a visit so I arranged for the Police Certificates and Medical Exams while they were visiting.
After we completed and submitted these requirements for them, we received a letter from CIC about a month before the final approval of our PR application advising us that we did not need to submit a Medical or Police Certificate for non-accompanying dependents. They noted we had submitted these for them but had ticked "non-accompanying" on their part of our application. They asked would we please clarify this contradiction.
I should also note that at the time of final approval, both of my dependents were in the 18-21 year old category as "adult dependents" (which you probably know that the age cap has been now lowered from <22 to <19 years of age).
In our case, since the CIC went to the trouble to put our application on hold to confirm their non-accompanying status, I went ahead and modified their application as "accompanying" and they were issued the COPR (Confirmation of Permanent Residency) letters with my wife and I about a month later. One dependent decided to use it and land and the other did not. In the end, it was their choice.
I hope this helps.
