Visually Impaired Kid

[Khalid.Ahmed.Saeed]

Would you please help me to know if my Visually Impaired Kids will cause our immigration to Canada to be rejected?
I have 2 kids, a 6-year old boy and a 2-year old girl. They are Visually Impaired kids. They can see and help themselves. The boy can get a cornea transplant 5 years ago and this helps him to see better. I heard that if their medical case will cost a lot they will be rejected. But I don't know how to know if it will cost much or not. For the moment their case are stable and only some follow up and use some drops. Nothing big.

 

[mgnlky]

I can't see this being an issue as many people immigrate to Canada who have less than perfect vision. I would suggest doing research to see how much the eyedrops or any medications would cost. (I can't see it being expensive enough to raise a red flag to CIC.)

 

[canuck78]

Hard to tell by your posting if it will be an issue or not. Do your children require specialized equipment to see? Special schooling or a teacher's aide? Will they require more surgery? It is not only purely medical costs that count it is the cost for specialized schooling/accomodations and other services.

 

[Khalid.Ahmed.Saeed]

Their eye drops are not expensive.
They don't use any equipment to see. Don't know if my son will need any for study or he will use Braille. In my country I couldn't send him to school because there is no good school for visually impaired. even blind or normal school. The normal school refused to accept him and this is the reason of immigration. He is more than 6 years old without school. But we help him at home and he have learnt some letters and numbers and colors and make some mazes with putting his eye so near to his paper and his doctor told it is good and not harmful. As been told by his doctor he may be better in future if he would have get another cornea when he is older. But no confirmation if he will do it or not as it depends on his case then.
His sister is OK without any glasses or surgeries.
For the moment only periodic follow up (3 times per year) and continuous one eye drop for both ( about one per month each)

 

[canuck78]

Their eye drops are not expensive.
They don't use any equipment to see. Don't know if my son will need any for study or he will use Braille. In my country I couldn't send him to school because there is no good school for visually impaired. even blind or normal school. The normal school refused to accept him and this is the reason of immigration. He is more than 6 years old without school. But we help him at home and he have learnt some letters and numbers and colors and make some mazes with putting his eye so near to his paper and his doctor told it is good and not harmful. As been told by his doctor he may be better in future if he would have get another cornea when he is older. But no confirmation if he will do it or not as it depends on his case then.
His sister is OK without any glasses or surgeries.
For the moment only periodic follow up (3 times per year) and continuous one eye drop for both ( about one per month each)

Unfortunately I see being in a specialized school for the visually impaired being the issue. There also is the equipment that like special readers, braille writers?, etc Not sure what is available and what may be funded. Seems like both your children may have a similar disease so she may also need specialized schooling in the future. Also potential of a cornea transplant but not sure how expensive that is. You will have to see what happens.