BTW medicals are only good for a year so don't spend money on that if they are not coming for a couple of years.
Anna - you're right, the OP's post is very hard to understand...I don't know who's who but I think I kinda understand a part of it. I think she's trying to sponsor her husband to Canada and wants to include her husband's daughter and his daughter's baby on the application forms as non-accompanying family members. Crazymoon, maybe we could have made sense of your post much easier if you initially stated that this is your step-daughter and your step-granddaughter you are talking about...:ermm:
In the Immigrant's section of the application form, it states that:
"All your family members, whether accompanying you or not, must be declared on your application and be examined. If family members ar not examined, it is generally not possible to sponsor them at a later date...
In addition, failure to declare family members on your application and have them examined goes against your duty to provide truthful and accurate information, and may cause you to be found inadmissable to Canada."
However, that being said, Crazymoon, you should review your application forms again because in your case, you may not even need to go through all this trouble right now. The application forms you are using to sponsor your husband is 'Family Class: Sponsorship of a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner or dependent children living outside Canada". For dependent children, there are 3 criterias listed in the forms in order to qualify under the 'dependent children' category (see below). Does your husband's daughter fall under any of these to be considered a dependent child?
- is under the age of 22 and does not have a spouse or common-law partner;
- is a full-time student and is substantially dependent on a parent for financial support since before the age of 22, or since becoming a spouse or common-law partner (if this happened before age 22); or
- is financially dependent on a parent since before the age of 22 because of a disability.
If your husband's daughter does qualify as a dependent child, then yes, she needs to be included as a non-accompanying family member, her photos and birth certificate has to be included in the application and she does need to get the medical exam.
If your daughter does not fall under any of these categories, she is not qualified as a dependent child and I don't think she needs to be included in your husband's application. However, you do need to include her in the 'Additional Family Information' form (IMM 5406E) under Section B. As for the the baby, she does not qualify as a dependent child of your husband's since it is not HIS daughter so does not need to be included in his application either. If so, I don't think you need to include birth certificates with the application nor get their medical exams at this point. When you and your husband are ready to sponsor them in the future, you can then submit a new application to sponsor them under a completely new and separate undertaking. To sponsor any other family member other than a spouse, common-law partner, conjugal partner or dependent children, you can use this link:
CIC Canada | Application to Sponsor a Member of the Family Class
In regards to whether or not the baby's father has to be named in the birth certificate, I don't know the answer to that. But like I said, since the baby isn't your husband's daughter, I don't think you need to worry about this right now.
When my husband and I were filling out our application forms, we included his 2 kids as non-accompanying family members. In our case, there was no question whether or not they qualified as dependent children since they are 3 and 5 year olds so it wasn't complicated. I would suggest getting in touch with CIC Canada to get accurate info for your situation - maybe you can save yourself some time and money for the time being and just worry about getting your husband to Canada first.
Best of luck!