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1. I would like to confirm that if I need to apply PR card, as I read from other posts that the PR application would be done as a part of immigration process and I will automatically receive your new card by mail once my address in Canada is provided.

All newly arriving immigrants will receive the PR Card as part of the immigration process.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) will mail your PR Card to you, after the information and photograph on your Confirmation of Permanent Residence document is confirmed by a CIC official when you arrive in Canada.

2. The OHIP card can be applied once I landed in Toronto, any minimum stay before application is required? 3. Regarding SIN, can I also apply after landing?

4. My wife is pregnant right now but we intend to give birth in home country, however, do I need to report pregnancy during landing entry to Canada?

b) If you move to Ontario from another province or territory where you had provincial/territorial health insurance coverage:

If you move to Ontario directly from another province and apply for coverage, your OHIP coverage will begin on the first day of the third month after establishing residence in Ontario, provided you were insured in your previous province or territory.

Your valid health card from your former province will continue to provide you with health insurance coverage in accordance with that province/territory's plan during the waiting period.

Who is eligible to be sponsored?

You can sponsor relatives or family members under this class if they are:

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• Your brother or sister, nephew or niece, grandson or granddaughter, if they are an orphan, under 18 years of age and they do not have a spouse, common-law partner, or conjugal partner.
• Any other person with whom you have a family relationship if you do not have a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner, son, daughter, mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, niece or nephew who is a Canadian citizen, a registered Indian, a permanent resident or whom you may sponsor
• Your parents or grandparents

You cannot get Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) coverage right away. You have to wait for 3 months after you arrive in Ontario.

You can apply for OHIP as soon as you have the documents you need. But you will not get a Health Card and your coverage will not start until you become eligible (after 3 months).

According to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, when you apply, staff will look at your documents to figure out when the 3-month waiting period starts.You must also be physically present in Ontario for 153 days of the first 183 days after the day you apply for OHIP.

When I travel outside of Canada, will OHIP pay the same medical expenses that are covered in Ontario?

No. If you are a resident of Ontario and you are insured under OHIP, you are entitled to very limited funding for a certain range of medical services when you are travelling outside of Canada. For this reason, you are strongly advised to purchase additional health insurance every time you leave Canada and ensure that the supplementary insurance you have purchased provides adequate coverage.

What does OHIP cover while I'm out of the country?

OHIP will pay very limited amounts for physician services and hospital/health facility services, and only if certain conditions are satisfied (refer to section below "What is not covered by OHIP?"). Under Ontario's Health Insurance Act and regulations, physician services are subject to different conditions than hospital services.

OHIP will pay only for insured, emergency out-of-country health services that are rendered to an insured person. To qualify as an 'emergency' there are a number of criteria that must be satisfied. These criteria are set by regulation and include the conditions listed below that must be met :

• the treatment must be medically necessary, and
• the treatment must be performed at a licensed hospital or licensed health facility, and
  
  
• the treatment must be rendered in relation to an illness, disease, condition or injury that :
• is acute and unexpected, and
• arose outside of Canada, and
• requires immediate treatment.

These provisions are intended and designed to provide a very limited amount of funding for the medical treatment of insured residents of Ontario if they incur an unexpected illness, disease, condition or injury while they are outside of Canada. If the illness, disease, condition or injury arises before you leave Canada, or if it is not acute or unexpected, no payment can be made.


What is not covered by OHIP?

OHIP does not cover:

• treatment that is medically unnecessary
• health services that are rendered at a facility that is not a licensed hospital or licensed health facility
• treatment that is generally accepted by the medical profession in Ontario, as being experimental, or for research or for part of a study
• treatment rendered for an illness, disease condition or injury that arose inside Canada
• ambulance services or transportation costs
• other services specifically set out in the regulations as uninsured or otherwise not listed as insured.

You can sponsor one relative of any age or relationship, but only if you do not have one of these living relatives who could be sponsored as a member of the family class:

• spouse or common-law partner,
• conjugal partner,-son or daughter,

you do not have any relative who is a:
-Canadian citizen,
-permanent resident

Family members who were not declared and examined are excluded from the family class and may not be sponsored at a later date as per R117(9)(d) unless R117(10) applies.