MEDICAL CLEARANCE

MEDICAL CLEARANCE

Canadian Immigration requires the successful completion of a medical examination. This procedure must be completed in order to ensure:

• Health of Canadians;
• Safety of Canadians; and
• Reduce and prevent excessive demand on Canada's health and social services.

Each applicant as well as each dependent (accompanying or not) is required to pass the medical examination. The standard medical examination consists of the following:

1. Complete medical check-up (all ages)
2. Blood Test (for persons over the age of 15)
3. Chest x-ray and reports (for persons over the age of 11)
4. Urinalysis (for persons over the age of 5)
5. Syphilis serology (for persons over the age of 15)
6. HIV test (for persons over the age of 15)

A child can be requested to undertake all the examinations if there is suggestion of exposure or contact with persons suffering or who have suffered from a contagious medical disease.

Canadian Immigration will advise the applicant the appropriate time to complete your examination, at which time the immigration officer will issue the form titled “Medical Report—Section A - IMM 1017E” for the applicant and each dependent. The remainder of the forms “Medical Report—Sections B - C - D - E IMM 5419E” are not issued to the applicant but are supplied by the Designated Medical Practitioner (DMP).

Medical reports and completed medical examinations must be overseen by one of the DMPs authorized by Canadian Immigration. The DMP will forward the reports directly to the Immigration medical officer for review. These reports are the property of the Canadian Immigration Medical Authorities and cannot be sent to the applicant. The DMP will not indicate the results of the medical; however, the applicant will be informed if a health problem does exist. The officer and not the DMP will make the final determination on medical admissibility. The visa office will inform the applicant, in writing, if there is a problem with the medical reports. The officer can request that the applicant undergo additional exams or provide further medical information before the medical decision can be rendered.

To determine the applicant’s admissibility to Canada, the officer will consider a number of factors, such as the nature and severity of the problem; probability and duration of the illness and/or treatment, the danger of contagion, nature and necessity of use of Canadian health and/or social services, stressed placed onto the health and social serviced and probability of employment and continued productivity.

The medical officer has five criteria to base the assessment of admissibility.

• H - Risk to Public Safety or Public Health
• D - Expected Demand on Health or Social Services
• T - Response to Medical Treatment
• S - Surveillance
• E - Potential Employability or Productivity

Each criterion will have one of seven selection decisions; referred to as a Statement of Medical Status (M) which the immigration officer has concluded accurately reflects the health results of the individual. The classifications for the Statement of Medical Status are as follows.

Ml. No health impairment sufficient to prevent admission

M2. Has a condition for which the degree of risk to public health or safety is not sufficient to exclude admission, but which risk should be considered in relation to other personal and social criteria.

M3. Has a condition for which the potential demand on health or social services is not sufficient to exclude admission, but which risk should be considered in relation to other personal and social criteria.

M4. Has a condition which is likely to endanger public health or safety to such an extent that the applicant is at present inadmissible, but for which the expected response to treatment is such that future admission could be considered.

M5. Has a condition which is likely to cause demand on health or social services to such an extent that the applicant is not at present admissible, but for which the expected response to treatment is such that future admission could be considered.

M6. Has a condition which is a danger to public health or safety and which is not likely to respond to treatment in such a way as to allow admission in the foreseeable future.

M7. Has a condition which could cause excessive demand on health or social services, and which is not likely to respond to treatment.

The Medical assessment is done on a case by case basis, and the final decision is rendered by taking all aspects of an applicant's condition into account.