Does anyone know where interviews and medicals are usually held in Ontario?
I live in northern Ontario.

Also, how much notice do you usually get for having to go to your appointments?

Thanks for any input....

K1/K3/CR1 Interviws for people living in Ontario are done at the Montreal Consulate. You cannot do the interview in Ontario unfortunately.

For medicals, they can be done in Toronto, and you can schedule it when it suits you - I believe one office in Toronto does them in the early morning a couple days a week (Dr. Seiden) and the other office does them in the afternoon (Medsys).

Dr. Seiden in on Front St. in Toronto.

We made our appointment on the 28th of April, and had it a week later. You can also get them done in Ottawa, I believe, if that's closer. Seiden's office take people in the morning, Medisys is in the afternoon. We had ours at Medisys since we drove from Sudbury. We got there at 12:30 for a 1:30 appointment and got out of there at 5:00pm. I just posted our experience here...

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...p;#entry1819754

As a previous poster said, if you're anything but DCF, you'll be going thru Montreal.

Usually you have 6-8 weeks notice but some people have had 12 weeks and the odd person has been notified either a few days before the interview or even after, but I wouldn't worry. Both places are about the same in terms of quality. People have had good and bad experiences at both. I took my parents to Medisys. The doctor was OK but my brother, who went to the same medical school, was with my parents and we had their list of medications printed out. Medisys has no x-ray facility in the building so they send you to another building that is a few minutes away. Dr. Seiden only does mornings and is on Front Street which is murder when it comes to parking. These are money-making operations and they try to get as many people through the door as possible. Our family doctor has many patients who went to Dr. Seiden and their reactions to the process were not enthusiastic but what choice do you have? Get all your shots done ahead of time (if needed) and it might be a good idea to get your family doctor to do the tests since OHIP will cover most everything but when you get to Medisys or Dr. Seiden they will charge for vaccinations. The panel physician will do the tests again (USCIS regulations). If you need treatment for anything (highly unlikely but you never know) OHIP will cover it if your family doctor does it. Since the medical is sealed you might want to know if you have anything before you go to MTL or the panel physician so you can get treatment if need be. I heard Ottawa was expensive but I have no idea what it's like. The list of what you need is at the CDC website since they set the USCIS requirements. Go to the section on vaccines. Dr. Seiden has a webpage that has taken the information that he received from the USCIS (who got it from the CDC). I took the schedule from the CDC website (there's a interactive quiz that will give you a printout to take to the doctor) and went to our family physician. OHIP covered the shots and the tests. The better prepared you are before you go for the medical, the easier (and cheaper) it will be. Hope this helps.

What he said and, here is the link to Dr Seiden's website:

http://panelphysicians.com/

and the CDC quiz IR5 mentioned:

Adolescent and Adult Vaccine Quiz

There are Dr.'s is London, Ottawa, Windsor AND Toronto.

Depending on how far north you are, there are 2 Dr's in Winnipeg also.

I received my interview notice the end of November for an early February date.

For my medical, I called and got an appointment one week later. They seem to have a very open schedule (or at least the place I called did).

In relation to this statement "it might be a good idea to get your family doctor to do the tests since OHIP will cover most everything but when you get to Medisys or Dr. Seiden they will charge. The panel physician will do the tests again (USCIS regulations). If you need treatment for anything (highly unlikely but you never know) OHIP will cover it if your family doctor does it. Since the medical is sealed you might want to know if you have anything before you go to MTL or the panel physician so you can get treatment if need be."- there are two things to correct in this statement

1. a doctor is required by law (or at leasts by their ethical code) to tell you if any of your tests don't come back as healthy. They cannot send your medical off to Montreal without making you aware if something is wrong. Do not fear that your medical could have gone wrong if you hear nothing. Just keep in mind that this physical should NOT replace your annual physical with your family dr.

2. If something is wrong on your medical, even though you had the testing done through an immigration dr. and had to pay, you can still have your treatment done through OHIP. There is no such thing are private health care in Ontario.

Hope that helps, best of luck!

~Ashley

I'm in total agreement with getting regular check-ups but then again I'm a hypochondriac. As for your criticisms I think you meant to say clarify not correct , just to add to the issues that you were concerned about.

1. My family doctor tells me and I have every reason to believe that unless the patient is in imminent danger or will be a danger to the general public the panel physician is not likely to say anything to the patieint. Many of his patients have had conditions that were not noted by the panel physicians but were caught by the family doctor. Did the panel physician miss it or is there some other explanation, I can't say. One poster on the boards was told that she had a shadow on her lungs x-ray and was informed by the panel physician. This was after the report went to MTL, so there you are.

2. Panel physicians by and large do not take new patients on. Their practices are not the same as other physicians and will generally not take on any or otherwise treat patients who have health issues. They will send you to your family physician. Any treatment, if done during the medical, will be charged to you. Realistically you would go to your family doctor and he or she would bill OHIP. There is no private health care in Ontario but there are "service fees" and the like. No private healthcare just service fees, lots and lots of service fees.

Ashley, I hope that clears up any misconstruances my posting might have given rise to, thanks for bringing them to my attention.

Here is a list of doctors. The website says it is from October of 2007.

http://www.amcits.com/usa_immigration_medical_canada.pdf

HI CORINNA

THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION.


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