A member who submitted a study permit application from Singapore wanted to proactively submit an upfront medical exam and police clearance certificate, but found no upload option in the IRCC portal since neither had been formally requested yet.
What the thread clarified:- The IRCC portal doesn't provide a general document-upload option after your visa application is submitted — uploads only become available once IRCC specifically requests a document. This is a portal limitation, not something you're doing wrong.
- The way around this is to submit the documents via webform instead, which is the standard channel for pushing documents to your file proactively, ahead of a formal request.
- You can still book your medical exam and apply for your police clearance certificate on your own timeline without waiting for IRCC's formal request — the member in this thread booked their medical at a specific panel physician location and had already applied for their PCC in parallel, planning to submit both once ready.
The practical takeaway: if you want to get ahead of your medical exam and police certificate before IRCC formally asks for them, book and apply for both on your own initiative, then submit them proactively through a webform rather than waiting for an upload option that won't appear until requested.