Up-Front Medical before Application (Will it expire before it's approved?)

[DustinBrett]

Hello everyone,

I have read several posts on this forum about this question but I wanted some clarity because my situation may be slightly different. I plan to do the Inland application for my wife when we enter Canada in April 2015 but we are getting the up-front medical exam in February 2015. I am reading that the wait times right now are 17 months for the initial assessment which would mean by the time they look at my medicals it could be September 2016, assuming I apply in April 2015. The medical exam will be 19 months old by this time and I have read on this forum that extensions can be automatically requested for applications as old as 15 months. So what should I do?

It seems impossible to submit an upfront medical with my application and not have it expire before the initial assessment.

 

[wowsers]

If you are applying inland you have a choice: you do not need to undertake an upfront medical. You can if you wish wait until you are requested by CIC to submit to a medical. If however you do it upfront you are worse off than outland applicants because your application is likely to take longer; so, yes, the validity of your upfront medical may expire. The preponderance of opinion on this forum is that if you have a choice of inland or outland, the outland route is preferable. You can apply outland even if you are in Canada.

 

[DustinBrett]

I appreciare the advice about outland/inland but I dont mind waiting 25 months for my wife to get her PR. I am applying inland because I also plan to apply for a OWP for her because we will need her income as well in Vancouver.

I was thinking applying with medical and police report from Chile while in Canada would be a more complete application. Its probably too late now because we have the exam today.

Does anyone think there is a chance of extension and that they wont ask for a second medical? I also plan to get her covered with MSP in BC as soon as we have applied for the PR/OWP and she will be living in Canada, so in a way they will know her history with only a small gap from the time I get the Chilean report to the time she is under the MSP umbrella.