Pregnant, Ready for Passport email received, want to delay until after birth

[nei43]

Hi everyone,

Hoping you can shed some light on our situation please!

My wife (principal applicant) and I (husband) have received the "Ready for Passport" email (i.e. after that we should receive our COPR). This expires in 1 week and our medical certs are valid until March.

My wife is pregnant with a due date of April 2020. IRCC have already been informed of the pregnancy (we were originally considering landing then giving birth in Canada).

We are now considering having the baby in our current country and then landing in Canada.

What are our options to allow this? Would they place our file on hold, allow us to have the baby, add the baby to our application, THEN provide our passports and issue COPR including the baby?

If they won't extend/put the file on hold and we have to "reapply", to what point do we go back? ITA? Re-submit all our paperwork (confirmation of employment, criminal certs etc.), or do they just accept an application form to add the baby, whilst retaining/accepting the paperwork already submitted?

Thank you in advance for your help!!

 

[zardoz]

Hi everyone,

Hoping you can shed some light on our situation please!

My wife (principal applicant) and I (husband) have received the "Ready for Passport" email (i.e. after that we should receive our COPR). This expires in 1 week and our medical certs are valid until March.

My wife is pregnant with a due date of April 2020. IRCC have already been informed of the pregnancy (we were originally considering landing then giving birth in Canada).

We are now considering having the baby in our current country and then landing in Canada.

What are our options to allow this? Would they place our file on hold, allow us to have the baby, add the baby to our application, THEN provide our passports and issue COPR including the baby?

If they won't extend/put the file on hold and we have to "reapply", to what point do we go back? ITA? Re-submit all our paperwork (confirmation of employment, criminal certs etc.), or do they just accept an application form to add the baby, whilst retaining/accepting the paperwork already submitted?

Thank you in advance for your help!!

If you are issued a COPR, you will need to land before this date. Extension of the COPR is normally only possible if IRCC have made an error.
If you let it lapse without landing, you start all over again from the very beginning. Nothing from your existing application will be reused to shorten the process.

 

[nei43]

Hi,

We haven't been issued COPR yet - we've only received the "Ready for Passport" email, which is prior to that.

Thanks,

Neil

 

[hamgha]

Hi,

We haven't been issued COPR yet - we've only received the "Ready for Passport" email, which is prior to that.

Thanks,

Neil

it doesn't take long for that. can't you go for a week and return? if she's due in april, then barely in second trimester. i wouldn't waste the opportunity

 

[nei43]

Sorry I think you're misunderstanding our question

We're trying to understand the viability of delaying/extending our COPR until after the baby is born, then moving to Canada with PR.

Thanks again.

 

[zardoz]

Sorry I think you're misunderstanding our question

We're trying to understand the viability of delaying/extending our COPR until after the baby is born, then moving to Canada with PR.

Thanks again.

Assume that it's not viable. Base your actions on that.

 

[scylla]

Sorry I think you're misunderstanding our question

We're trying to understand the viability of delaying/extending our COPR until after the baby is born, then moving to Canada with PR.

Thanks again.

The COPR validity will be determined by when you completed the medical. IRCC will not delay/extend the COPR. You'll need to land before the expiry date of the COPR or re-start the process from scratch.

 

[Moruf]

Is there any reason why you dont want to give birth in beloved Canada?

 

[nei43]

You'll need to land before the expiry date of the COPR or re-start the process from scratch.

Thanks for the reply.

How far back is "from scratch"? We'd need to re-enter the pool and get enough points from a fresh draw, or would we retain our ITA and we'd need to re-submit all paperwork from scratch, or....?

 

[Bs65]

Think it means start with a brand new application with all the associated challenges and wait time.

Many people would take the opportunity of getting a COPR almost like a once in a lifetime opportunity and take it up as soon as they practically can even if a soft landing given never know when/if program rules may change.

In your scenario they might do a soft landing whilst they can and sort out the PR implications of the pregnancy/birth if in home country later on. .After all once landed and returned to home country you have near 3 years before you need to be back in Canada versus the alternative of a brand new application.

Seems you have a big decision to make basically on how much you want to immigrate and when

 

[scylla]

Thanks for the reply.

How far back is "from scratch"? We'd need to re-enter the pool and get enough points from a fresh draw, or would we retain our ITA and we'd need to re-submit all paperwork from scratch, or....?

Literally from scratch. Yes - re-enter the pool, fresh draw, new ITA, resubmit application. No - you would not retain ITA.