A member submitted an upfront medical exam when filing their profile (following older document-checklist wording that listed it as mandatory), even though current IRCC guidance says medicals are only needed once requested. After submission, they only received a request for biometrics and wondered if that meant their upfront medical had been accepted.
What the thread confirmed:- Yes — an upfront medical, once submitted, is typically accepted without IRCC sending a separate medical request. A member who did the same thing had their file show the medical as "completed" without ever getting an explicit request for it, alongside a normal biometrics request.
- This confirms upfront medicals are still an option even though they're not required under the newer guidance — submitting one voluntarily doesn't cause problems, it just gets processed and marked complete.
The practical takeaway: if you submitted an upfront medical and later only see a biometrics request (no separate medical request), that's expected — check your application status to confirm the medical shows as completed rather than assuming something was missed.