After completing your Immigration Medical Exam (IME) and receiving certain medical results you may be asking, “Can I choose not to send my medical results to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)?” However, the answer is no. Once you undergo your medical exam at a Panel Physician clinic and sign the required Client Declaration Form, your results must be submitted to IRCC, whether or not you later change your mind. 

What is the Client Declaration Form And Why Does it Matter? 

Before beginning your medical exam, you must sign a mandatory form called the Client Declaration and Notice with Respect to the Immigration Medical Examination. This form authorizes the clinic to collect your personal and medical information, conduct a health assessment according to IRCC’s standards, and submit your medical data to IRCC. By signing this document, you are giving consent for the panel clinic to share your results with IRCC, even the findings that might affect your immigration process. Once this declaration is signed, the panel clinic is obligated to send your data to IRCC. 

What If I Don’t Sign the Declaration? 

If you do not sign the Client Declaration Form, your medical exam will not be performed and the clinic will not be permitted to proceed with any part of the medical exam. Without a signed declaration form, the entire process stops. This ensures both ethical and legal compliance to medical examinations on the part of the Panel Physicians and their clinic. 

Can I Retract My Consent After the Exam? 

Some clients, after discovering they have a medical condition (i.e. tuberculosis, HIV, etc.), ask the clinic to hold or cancel their report. However, it is important to understand that Panel Physicians are legally obligated to submit the results. Once the declaration is signed, IRCC becomes the rightful data recipient of your medical exam results. Clinics cannot and will not be able to withhold or delete reports at the client’s request. 

As a designated panel physician clinic, our duty is not to make decisions about your admissibility to Canada. That decision is made by IRCC. Our role is simply to conduct a standardized medical exam and submit all findings to IRCC accurately and securely. We cannot delay, alter, or withhold this process even if it is at your request. 

We understand that discovering a medical issue can be overwhelming. However, transparency is a key part of the immigration medical process, and once you have consented to proceed, your results must be shared with IRCC with no exceptions. If you are concerned about how a specific condition might impact your immigration application, you are always welcome to ask our team for general guidance. But rest assured, IRCC is the only authority that determines admissibility, not the clinics. 

At Immigration Medical Centre in Oakville, our kind, caring and experienced Panel Physicians and medical practitioners are happy to support you throughout the entire Immigration Medical Exam process. For clients’ convenience, we provide all tests including blood test and X-ray in the same building. To book your Immigration Medical Exam, please either call us at 416-822-3326 or book it online on our website.   

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