We just got our medical requests! :)
 

Hi all - am very pleased to announce that we got our medical requests today!
In addition for medicals for both of us they are asking for:
- Updated Schedule 1 forms for both of us
- Updated police certificates for both of us

Regarding the PCCs, I assume since ours run out on 17th July 2011 they feel it's cutting it a bit close to the wire, hence why they want fresh ones.

Really puzzled as to why they are asking for new Schedule 1s. The only change is that my company has been taken over and has a new name, but my job and duties haven't changed and we informed them of it.

On the correspondence they sent they gave no indication why they wanted new forms.

Ah well, no biggy :) Just very glad to get the medical requests! We're booked in for 1.30pm next Tuesday for medicals.


Wayne + Susan :)

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I'm fairly certain at some point we were asked for updated schedule 1s.
Probably routine if the form is more than a certain age.

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That is great news - could you just let me know two things (I am working on a new theory here):

1. Did you apply under FSW1; and
2. What NOC did you apply under?

Ta !

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Hi - FSW1, NOC 3131. My wife is the principal applicant (industrial pharmacist).

We got our PER on 15th December 2010. We have not had any 2nd AOR or any other communcation, so these medicals are the first communication from CIC since received our PER from CIO in December.

And I love new theories, so do tell? :)

Wayne.

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Congratulations on your med requests coming through.
it would appear that your NOC is very desirable in Ca right now and you are being fast tracked ?!
I am of course green with envy! but still wish you a speedy process nonetheless ;)

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Congratulations to you both...how exciting. :thumbup:

Can I ask; was it via email or post?

We are in Canada at the moment and were wondering if something might be sitting on the doormat on our return...

Nearly there now...Best of Luck to you.

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Not sure about fast-tracked per say. The post-June-26 process is by design faster than it's pre-June-26 counterpart because you send all your documents up front. So the 2 months that pre-June-26 applicants spend gathering documents during the 120 day phase, the post-June-26 applicants have to do before they even apply.

However this pay big dividends at the visa office since they have far less work to do prior to issuing medical requests.

We also have a "fairly" simple case - PA+spouse only, 76 points, 8.5 IELTS etc. There are still a couple of October 2010 applicants got medical requests ahead of us, yet plenty of people who applied before us who have heard nothing yet - so I imagine it depends on a great deal of factors!

Wayne.

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Hi - it was by normal mail. We never received a 2nd AOR or anything, so this is the first we've officialy heard since receiving our 1st AOR/PER from CIO in December 2010.

They sent 2 medical forms with our photographs on, a sheet with medical instructions, and then a covering checklist where they ask for the medicals, and also for the new Schedule 1's, RPRF and fresh PCCs.

Wayne.

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Congratulations! That must be a weight off :thumbup:

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congratulations! I'm envious of how quick you can book a medical... I have to wait 3 weeks here in Glasgow!

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Aye! Although we're going to have to wait a week or two for fresh PCCs, so we can't get CHC everything they need for several weeks anyway.

I think it all works on brought forward dates so as long as they get everything before the next brought forward date (guessing that will be approximately 60 days if that's what they have given us) I don't think it'll effect when we'll get PPR.

Wayne.

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By PCC's do you mean police certs? I thought they were good for a year once CIC have received them provided they get them within 3 months of them being issued? :huh: I'm sure I read that somewhere on here.

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Yes they are "good" for a year. However, your case has to be finalised (i.e. visa in passport) before the 1 year is up.

Ours expire on 17th July therefore I reckon CIC are not completely confident they will have our visas in the passport by then, therefore they are asking for fresh ones to prevent possible delays in a few months time?

A bit nervous about the medicals - got my friend's stag do this weekend and he's brewed 80 pints of home brew, and since I am the best man I can't wimp out on the beer too much! Got Sunday + Monday to recover and the medicals are on Tuesday though so hoping all will be good.

Wayne.

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Congrats on medical requests.

We also got a request for updated sched 1, new police check and RPRF at the time of our medical requests. Amazingley there were a few things to update on ours!

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We were asked to use their label when mailing the stuff back to them, and they haven't included a label!! I am guessing it is just the label with barcode + file number that they stamped on all the docs they sent us (and helpfully didn't include for us to stick on the return docs!).

Ah well, guess we'll have to just write our file number and a covering letter with all our info!

Wayne.

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Congrats Wayne... I'm not green with envy at all. Honest!;) :)

Our PCC's (Portugal) run out (one year old) end of this month, so yesterday we popped up to Lisbon and obtained two more. Takes two hours to drive there and 10 minutes to get them, 7 Euros for two. They'll go off to CIC end of this month to hopefully pre-empt any requests for more at a later stage. Of course how long that later stage may be is anyone's guess :huh:

All the best
James Mc

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Hi Wayne,

Congratulations on reaching the next stage - don't forget to update your spreadsheets!! ;)

our 'label' just looked like a white piece of paper with an address on paper-clipped to one of the letters. On closer inspection it turned out to have a peel off back!

I was also asked for a number of replacement documents - can't remember the names but were main application, background stuff and additional family information. I emailed them to ask why they needed new ones and they said it was standard procedure if some time had passed since they were completed.

Good luck!

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Congratulations Waggle and Mrs Waggle! Hope it all goes smoothly from here on in! :thumbup:

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have checked checked and checked again no label.

do you think that we will need contact London for one or can we just write on the envelope?

hope more people hear soon

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Great news Waggles (Mr & Mrs!), we had our meds done yesterday, we received our request recorded delivery, we too had to get updated police certs, they have gone off, another £70!! The stickers, ours are just the address with the reference which is on medical request, I would just write it on the envelope. We got two in ours, perhaps we got yours???? DDefinitelythink things are moving, although, when we had our meds done, the Dr did mention that he had had some very angry people who had to do re meds as they had been done over a year ago, so another £200+ per person! You just wouldn't be happy would you? Hope you all get good news soon.

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Snap - we got our medical requests on Monday and there was no reply label (no matter how many times I checked!). And no instructions for the medical either so I hope we did it right. I just went ahead and booked it anyway and got it out of the way on Tuesday, didn't want to waste any more time waiting for a reply from CIC. Out of interest what should have been on the instructions?

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Ours just showed what the medical would cover, to take medicines with you if you take any and glasses if you were them. Also to take the photos & passports.

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That's good, I didn't go too far wrong then. It is always a bit worrying when you don't know what you are missing!

Congratulations by the way for getting to the next stage, I've been following everyone's stories and it is nice to finally see some activity. So frustrating for everyone still waiting though...hopefully the wait won't be too much longer.

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:thumbsup: Congratulations, I have been waiting with anticipation to see when the medical requests for post June apps to come in. Fingers crossed ours arrive next month, our application arrived 1/10/10.

I have inserted signature but for some reason its not working :confused: Being 5 months preganant now i wonder how the medicals will proceed for us?

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oh it is working :o

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We didn't get asked for anything extra with our medical requests... our police certificates must expire in August as that's when we submitted... OK now I'm hopeful that means the process will not take too long once meds are submitted!

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Well if yours expire in August and don't require fresh ones, and ours expire in July and do - this means they must expect to finalise our applications (which arrived very similar times at CIO) by late July? Would that be reasonable to assume? :)

I think in our case since they knew it would be "tight" (our PCCs expire mid July) they were playing it safe. We're hoping for PPR by July so we can have the visa before we fly to Canada in late August.

Wayne.

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Yeah it's a bit weird. The DMP at Nottingham told us to take 2 passport photos, but the paperwork from CIC says 3. Although the original photo we sent with our application probably counts as one - but we're taking 3 anyway to be on the safe side.

The timing is a bit annoying since I had a heavy drinking weekend last weekend, my friend's stag do this weekend (for which I am the best man) and then medicals on Tuesday! Hoping Sunday + Monday will be long enough to get most of the alcohol out of my system though ;p

Wayne.

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Hi Waggles wife,

I don't think you really need to contact - all it has on is the canadian embassy address in london, but it also had 3 initials and I took this to be the initials of the visa officer dealing with my case, as these matched email signatures I had received, so if you see three initials anywhere else on your paperwork just pop that above your address when you send your new docs in.

I suppose if you wanted to you could send an email, now you are being processed you will probably get a response within a few days.

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I just got mine today too, and guess what - no label! I have also been asked to send a new Additional Family Information Form. But wow, what a relief! :D

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Hi m8 - congrats. What are your timelines?

Weird, we have not been asked for new Additional Family Information but have been asked for updated Schedule 1s.

It all seems a bit random! :)

Wayne.

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Big congratulations to the Waggles:thumbup:
great to see some movement, maybe now will start to see benefits of new CIC system with timelines speeding up for everyone :eek:

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Thanks folks :) There does seem to have been a flurry of activity recently! I sent my docs to London in December (my timeline should appear below now) - I'm going through the Quebec Skilled Worker route.

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Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Waggle, happy days!!:)

Although I'm sure you've made alot of us quite jealous and especially bewildered as to how they at the CIC have processed your case so fast. You applied after June 26th and you're at medicals, that's incredible! but I guess someone deserves to get their visa's, all the best guy's....

Bal:D

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Hi.

Yesterday (Tuesday 19th April) we just got back from our medical exams and wanted to share our experience. We took our medical exams at Tudor House Medical Practice in Nottingham, UK.

We got there about 15 mins early. When we got to the desk the lady took our Section A forms and our passports for verification and handed us urine bottle for samples and also a medical history questionnaire to fill out. It was pretty straightforward (have you ever had any hospital treatment/operations, any history of heart disease – about 15 questions in all). It had 3 pages. The back page is the consent form for allowing them to take a blood sample, and the middle page is all the stuff the doctor fills in during the medical examination.

Anyway, we had a further 40 minute wait since the doctor wasn’t there and had been called on an emergency because of a mad person! Wink The lady handed us back our passports fairly quickly, I can confirm we did not need to bring photocopies of the bio page with us.

Anyway when the doctor got back it was pretty quick. He agreed to do me first since we said I hate needles so the first thing he did was took my blood sample. Then my blood pressure, which he commented was excellent (130/80 not bad for a 38 year old! Wink) Then he examined inside my mouth and throat, inside my ears, and did an eye test without my glasses (no idea why they asked to bring my glasses to the exam because he never asked to see them or to do an eye test with them on).

Then I was asked to lay on the couch whilst he took a little hammer to test my reflexes on a few of my joints, and felt my stomach and some of my joints and then asked me to take some deep breaths whilst he listened to my breathing.

And then that was it! I’d ticked the “A” box which is no serious problems.

Same for my wife (although she was a bit mad that despite being nearly 10 years younger than me her blood pressure was slightly worse than mine! Her eye sight is better than mine though).

Then it was off to the local hospital for the X-rays. We were waiting about 15 mins, then they asked my wife to get changed into a gown, and she had her X-ray. I was in there all of 2 mins, the X-ray is standing up so it’s very quick. They confirmed that the image had taken ok and then we left.

The hospital said they’d send the X-rays to the doctors today, and the doctors said that all the results should be sent to CHC by Tuesday next week (would be a bit earlier but we have Friday and Monday as public holidays). So CHC should have everything by the end of next week.

We just need to give them a call for piece of mind around next Wednesday time to check there were no problems with the chest X-rays or blood tests.

Wayne.

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Thanks :) There seems little rhyme or reason to the order CHC London seem to be processing cases. One user from canadavisa.com is a London applicant whose application was received at the end of November 2010 received medical requests last weekend. Yet some other post-June-26 applicants who applied in July and August 2010 have still not even gone "In Process" yet!

Whereas we're obviously delighted we have had medicals, we do feel sorry for those that applied before us who have yet to hear - and I hope things speed up for them soon.

Wayne.

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I know what you mean Wayne, I have been shocked to see some of the timelines here - the CSQ route has worked out well for me so far.

Thanks for sharing your experiences! I have a question about the medicals... what are the passport photos for? I have been told to bring x3 to the medical and x1 to the x-Ray (booked for 4th May).

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We brought 3, but only needed 2. One is for the DMP to attach to their medical findings, and the other is for the X-ray paperwork at the hospital.

We took a block of 4 photos and used 1 each for our updated police certificates, but took 3 just in case (since the CIC letters says take 3, even though the DMP only asks for 2).

It may vary from DMP to DMP though, so I would take the highest number of photos out of the CIC letter and the DMP instructions and play it safe! :)

Wayne.

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Seems like the "new system" will be as chaotic as the old & older systems. :huh:

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I see your passports took about 5 weeks to come back from posting them to having them back with visa in?

We're trying to decide whether to post ours once we get PPR, or take 2 trips down to London to drop off and collect again. I understand it can usually be done in 2 weeks if you do that?

The reason I ask is we already have a 2 week holiday to Canada booked at the end of August and would dearly like to validate our visa by then, but also we can't risk sending the passports off and if there is a delay having no passports with which to travel to Canada for our holiday! ;)

Any advice would be appreciated.

Wayne.