Canada extends clinical examination exemption for some immigrants

Immigration candidates in Canada may additionally no longer want to do an extra clinical examination to follow for everlasting residency.

Canada’s immigration branch is renewing a transient clinical examination exemption on some overseas nationals who are making use of for immigration.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is extending the already-existing clinical examination exemption on immigration candidates making use of from interior Canada till March 31, 2022. Originally, the public coverage got here into impact in June and used to be set to expire on December 28.

When overseas nationals observe for everlasting residence, they need to supply an immigration scientific examination or a special clinical identifier range from their preceding exam. This exemption approves them to now not have to do an extra clinical exam, if they have already performed one and they meet the following criteria:

• they have utilized for everlasting residency and have no longer achieved a new immigration clinical exam;

• the have finished a scientific examination inside the remaining 5 years and had been determined to pose no danger to public fitness or safety, or complied with a requirement to file to fitness authorities for monitoring; and

• they have no longer left Canada for greater than six months in the ultimate 12 months to stay in a united states of America that is on the federal government’s listing of international locations requiring an immigration clinical exam.

Family individuals of candidates can also be eligible underneath this coverage if they are additionally in Canada and meet the above criteria.

IRCC will contact men and women who are no longer eligible for the public coverage to talk about the subsequent steps, the immigration branch says in a media release.

IRCC additionally writes that this policy helps streamline utility processing for low-risk, in-Canada applicants, whilst at the equal time managing public fitness risks.

The coverage is additionally supposed to assist quicker immigration utility processing. Although IRCC reached its aim of admitting 401,000 new immigrants this year, the branch is presently dealing with a considerable backlog. The most current figures say that almost 1.8 million immigration candidates are in the queue to get everlasting residency status.