Etha11:
Dear All,

I have carefully and religiously followed the thread and must say a lot have been learnt from all your honest contributions.

However, my case is a bit different and will still appreciate your honest advise.

Just got married in Dec 2018 and all docs still have my name as I'm yet to do change of name. Me and hubby intend doing the Canadian PR and about to start the processing. Now, I'm 8weeks pregnant and a lil confused on which to do.

My questions pls:

1. Do I apply for tourist visa and deliver my baby in Canada and continue with the PR process afterwards ( Will my baby's status in anyway improve our chances)?

2. Do we still continue with the PR process and hope we get it before EDD in September? Is there any implication starting application with 2 fam member and increasing after childbirth?

3. Or proceed with the PR application and plan to give birth in USA?

I'm really confused. Please help.
Thank you.

happyme31:



In my opinion, there is no need going to Canada to give birth again since you plan on immigrating via Express Entry because your child will get PR and then eventually get citizenship.
If your concern is for medical care, use a good hospital here in Nigeria.

In all I would save the money if I were in your shoes.
Have your degree (s) evaluated and write IELTS.

jennymee:
I have been a silent reader of this page, applied for US visa but was denied based on the last bill I received after I had my princess in 2015. I reluctantly applied for �� TRV, submitted on the 26th, biometric message received on the 27th , biometrics done on the 29th. Visa approved today, 14th February. I am heading to Edmonton by first week for in March.

jennymee:
I have been a silent reader of this page, applied for US visa but was denied based on the last bill I received after I had my princess in 2015. I reluctantly applied for �� TRV, submitted on the 26th, biometric message received on the 27th , biometrics done on the 29th. Visa approved today, 14th February. I am heading to Edmonton by first week for in March.

jossy404:
Congrats at least we can breath a sigh of relief......did you apply online or it's paper route..?

jennymee:
i did online application. Submitted my Bank of America statement which had about 5k + dollars and about 1.7m naira in my Nairaland account. Hope this helps someone

jayfierce:
Congratulations. Did you declare for birthing?

jennymee:
No I didn't! I didn't want to complicate issues mbok!

justwise:


Actually you are complicating issues for yourself and other Nigerians.

The US birthing route is almost closed because of this type of misrepresentation and very soon Canada will slam the door on Nigerians as well.

We Nigerians are our own worst enemies.

jennymee:


Hellooooo... we all know that Canada is not like the US where you can clearly indicate purpose of travel and because there is actually no place in the application where you indicate birthing as reason for visit. I will eventually declare at POE because pregnancy can not be hidden. I am not complicating issues for anyone! If you are comfortable to indicate purpose of visit as birth, please go ahead other wise follow your heart. More reason I don't like to comment on public forum. Abeg it's a Friday let me enjoy the weekend in peace.

jennymee:


Hellooooo... we all know that Canada is not like the US where you can clearly indicate purpose of travel and because there is actually no place in the application where you indicate birthing as reason for visit. I will eventually declare at POE because pregnancy can not be hidden. I am not complicating issues for anyone! If you are comfortable to indicate purpose of visit as birth, please go ahead other wise follow your heart. More reason I don't like to comment on public
forum. Abeg it's a Friday let me enjoy the weekend in peace.

Hotstepper:
Congratulations!.

Canada has started to stamp 5 days for people who got tourist visa and come to the airport to say vacation and then birth. So i know people who came in for like a week to use the tourist visa then went bk to naija nd will be coming bk in March for birthing

Let us try and not spoil this thing. It is already in the media and i think they r being watchful now. Wishing u a safe trip .

please feel free to share and people will use their own discretion for their own application .


Thank you very much hotstepper for the info. You have been very helpful. I am not due till may and exactly my intention to come in for about 2 weeks so I can get a doctor and the head back in late April.

Thanks once again God bless you more

jennymee:


Hellooooo... we all know that Canada is not like the US where you can clearly indicate purpose of travel and because there is actually no place in the application where you indicate birthing as reason for visit. I will eventually declare at POE because pregnancy can not be hidden. I am not complicating issues for anyone! If you are comfortable to indicate purpose of visit as birth, please go ahead other wise follow your heart. More reason I don't like to comment on public forum. Abeg it's a Friday let me enjoy the weekend in peace.

Akorkor:
Please which one is better way to say. Tourism and medical or ordinary tourism. I am actually going going for childbirth. Please advise @omobendel,hotstepper

justwise:


Of course visa application forms has a space to indicate purpose of traveling either tourist, business or medical and a blank space for additional information.

You chooses not to indicate it because you don't want to.

Akorkor:
Please which one is better way to say. Tourism and medical or ordinary tourism. I am actually going going for childbirth. Please advise @omobendel,hotstepper

justwise:


Childbirth/medical and that is the truth.

Please lets try and clean our image as Nigerians as the rest of the world are sick and tired of our abuse of any constituted authority

jennymee:
i did online application. Submitted my Bank of America statement which had about 5k + dollars and about 1.7m naira in my Nairaland account. Hope this helps someone

jennymee:
I have been a silent reader of this page, applied for US visa but was denied based on the last bill I received after I had my princess in 2015. I reluctantly applied for �� TRV, submitted on the 26th, biometric message received on the 27th , biometrics done on the 29th. Visa approved today, 14th February. I am heading to Edmonton by first week for in March.

GlitzG:
Hi everyone,
Obviously I have a lot of questions and from reading so many posts here, am really scared. I just bumped into this thread few hours ago and I feel I have made a mistake already.

Candybright:
go ahead, get married and proceed with your application. 21days is not that long, that's about one month.

placebo:
Apologies for the long post. I have been following this thread for a while and I would like to share my visa story. As soon as I got pregnant Q3, 2018, I decided to give Canada a try as my USA visa was going to expire at the end of the year and I also travel a lot for work so I couldn’t afford to drop my passport for an extended period of time.

I submitted my online application on the 9th of November in the country where I work (mainly because they have a processing period of 16 days). These are the supporting documents that I recall submitting;
Marriage certificate
Change of name
Employment letter
Work ID card
Letter of introduction from my office
3 months payslips
Statement of account (about $20k at the time)
Shares statement(about $11k although value has dropped now)
International insurance letter of introduction
Letter of invitation from my friend
Letter of explanation
Past medical reports from nigeria

I chose ‘Others’ and stated medical tourism in my online application. In my letter of explanation, I also stated that the sole purpose of visit was childbirth. I however found out after submission that there was no biometric center in that country so I had to wait till I returned to Nigeria in December where I eventually did my biometrics on the 10th of December, 2018.

On the 21st of December, I received a letter from the Embassy stating that I will need to replace my letter of invitation with one from a doctor or hospital stating availability and cost. I believe I sort help from here but didn’t get much feedback. After trying for days to get a letter of invitation, I decided to just write another letter of explanation stating my appointment details and cost. I also got my insurance to send a guarantee of payment to my hospital of choice. ( I attached this document to my LOE)

On the 24th of January 2019, My visa application was approved and I was asked to submit my passport.

placebo:
Apologies for the long post. I have been following this thread for a while and I would like to share my visa story. As soon as I got pregnant Q3, 2018, I decided to give Canada a try as my USA visa was going to expire at the end of the year and I also travel a lot for work so I couldn’t afford to drop my passport for an extended period of time.

I submitted my online application on the 9th of November in the country where I work (mainly because they have a processing period of 16 days). These are the supporting documents that I recall submitting;
Marriage certificate
Change of name
Employment letter
Work ID card
Letter of introduction from my office
3 months payslips
Statement of account (about $20k at the time)
Shares statement(about $11k although value has dropped now)
International insurance letter of introduction
Letter of invitation from my friend
Letter of explanation
Past medical reports from nigeria

I chose ‘Others’ and stated medical tourism in my online application. In my letter of explanation, I also stated that the sole purpose of visit was childbirth. I however found out after submission that there was no biometric center in that country so I had to wait till I returned to Nigeria in December where I eventually did my biometrics on the 10th of December, 2018.

On the 21st of December, I received a letter from the Embassy stating that I will need to replace my letter of invitation with one from a doctor or hospital stating availability and cost. I believe I sort help from here but didn’t get much feedback. After trying for days to get a letter of invitation, I decided to just write another letter of explanation stating my appointment details and cost. I also got my insurance to send a guarantee of payment to my hospital of choice. ( I attached this document to my LOE)

On the 24th of January 2019, My visa application was approved and I was asked to submit my passport.