BC heath care if I applied for common law - PR ?

[Ema2000]

BC heath care if I applied for common law - PR ?

Can I get health care if I send my application for common law sponsorship to CIC? or after I get PR?

Or does everybody have a travel health insurance from there home country?

I am right now have a travel insurance but I thought I would get insurance in BC Canada???

Anybody has experience with this where to go where to ask what internet page can I use?

thank you
have a wonderful day!
Emma

 

[Ponga]

The sad truth is that dealing with BC MSP is about as painful as it gets.

The rules state that you are eligible to apply as soon as CIC has received your sponsorship application. You would then need to wait the balance of that month, plus two additional months, before your coverage would begin. The problem, is that they `think' you need to have AIP (Approval in Principle), which for an Inland applicant takes ~ 17 months to get, before you are eligible. This is wrong!


Outland applicants are probably eligible after they have SA (sponsor approval), which is usually only a few months after CIC receives the application.

 

[Ema2000]

what do I have to fill out or do I have to call BC health care? or write email?

what are the steps?

thanks ponga!

and would I have to pay for it?

 

[Ponga]

http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/health-drug-coverage/msp/bc-residents

You have to mail an enrollment application to their office in Victoria.

You (or your spouse, or his/her employer) will need to pay the monthly premium.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

Outland applicants are probably eligible after they have SA (sponsor approval), which is usually only a few months after CIC receives the application.

SA counts for nothing. Despite what the MSP website says, all they want to see is that the applicant side of the app is in process.

OP, there is not much chance you will get MSP anytime soon, so make sure you have some other form of emergency coverage.

 

[Ponga]

SA counts for nothing. Despite what the MSP website says, all they want to see is that the applicant side of the app is in process.

OP, there is not much chance you will get MSP anytime soon, so make sure you have some other form of emergency coverage.

It does for an Outland applicant, living in BC, because it means that the PA is now `in-process'.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

It does for an Outland applicant, living in BC, because it means that the PA is now `in-process'.

No, it doesn't mean that. I sent my SA email and ECAS screen showing that the app had been forwarded to London for applicant processing and MSP didn't care. They wanted specifically to see the applicant's ECAS stating "In Process".

 

[CDNPR2014]

It does for an Outland applicant, living in BC, because it means that the PA is now `in-process'.

this is not true. an outland SA doesn't mean the PA's application is now in process. it means the sponsor's app has been processed, approved and the PA application has ONLY been SENT to the visa office. The PA's application doesn't start processing right away. it can take weeks, months or even years for processing to start - depending on the visa office.

As Canuck said, pretty much the only ways to confirm the Outland PA's application is processing is to look for the "in process" line on ECAS or have a letter from CIC stating the fact it has started processing which is usually accompanied by a request for additional documents, passport request and/or RPRF.

 

[Ponga]

It's so f'n ridiculous how broken their system really is.

Many Inland applicants received letters from CIC (in early 2014) when the Vegreville office was, in essence, shut down for Inland processing and all applications were transferred to Mississauga. Those in BC that received the letter from CIC, indicating that their applications had been `transferred' to CPC-M "for processing" were suddenly able to get MSP coverage, because MSP thought that this meant something was happening. All it meant, was that the application was sent to CPC-M, to sit in a pile their for months on end.

 

[canuck_in_uk]

It's so f'n ridiculous how broken their system really is.

Agreed.