Tourst visa from Ukraine to USA -- with regard to vaccines

[DavidandIrina 1]

My Ukrainian fiancee has been trying to get a record of her vaccines and has been unsuccessful. She would like to visit the USA. What vaccines are absolutely necessary? She is 1 month pregnant, so she cant really just take them all. She IS planning to return to Ukraine again because we are working on the Fiancee Visa but have not applied yet. She is still "married" to her cousin, so I think there is a chance it could work out but the only thing is the vaccine requirements.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

My Ukrainian fiancee has been trying to get a record of her vaccines and has been unsuccessful. She would like to visit the USA. What vaccines are absolutely necessary? She is 1 month pregnant, so she cant really just take them all. She IS planning to return to Ukraine again because we are working on the Fiancee Visa but have not applied yet. She is still "married" to her cousin, so I think there is a chance it could work out but the only thing is the vaccine requirements.

Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Polio, Diptheria, Tuberculosis or DPT Chicken pox (Varicella) OR a history of having had chicken pox, tetanus within the last 10 years. The first are usually childhood vaccines, most everyone has at least had chicken pox and a tetanus shot in the last 10 years. We went to the local hospital in Donetsk and got the vaccine history for Alla and the boys. It is actually one of the easier documents we collected.

My Ukrainian fiancee has been trying to get a record of her vaccines and has been unsuccessful. She would like to visit the USA. What vaccines are absolutely necessary? She is 1 month pregnant, so she cant really just take them all. She IS planning to return to Ukraine again because we are working on the Fiancee Visa but have not applied yet. She is still "married" to her cousin, so I think there is a chance it could work out but the only thing is the vaccine requirements.

If she cannot get the records, she can have "titre tests" for the presence of antibodies to show she has had the vaccines.

[payxibka 10,045]

My Ukrainian fiancee has been trying to get a record of her vaccines and has been unsuccessful. She would like to visit the USA. What vaccines are absolutely necessary? She is 1 month pregnant, so she cant really just take them all. She IS planning to return to Ukraine again because we are working on the Fiancee Visa but have not applied yet. She is still "married" to her cousin, so I think there is a chance it could work out but the only thing is the vaccine requirements.

A non-immigrant visa has NO vaccination requirements...

[payxibka 10,045]

Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Polio, Diptheria, Tuberculosis or DPT Chicken pox (Varicella) OR a history of having had chicken pox, tetanus within the last 10 years. The first are usually childhood vaccines, most everyone has at least had chicken pox and a tetanus shot in the last 10 years. We went to the local hospital in Donetsk and got the vaccine history for Alla and the boys. It is actually one of the easier documents we collected.

If she cannot get the records, she can have "titre tests" for the presence of antibodies to show she has had the vaccines.

Gary, are you sure you answered the OP's question accurately?

Edited April 3, 2011 by payxibka

[Neonred 3,551]

No vaccinations required for a tourist visa that I am aware of.

[DavidandIrina 1]

No vaccinations required for a tourist visa that I am aware of.

This government site seems to indicate that someone who hasn't had their vaccines is eligible... Although I could be reading it wrong...

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html

Although this FAQ which I found buried on this site doesn't mention medical at all.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/visitor-visa-guide

Would be cool if it was not required!!

David

[payxibka 10,045]

This government site seems to indicate that someone who hasn't had their vaccines is eligible... Although I could be reading it wrong...

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html

Although this FAQ which I found buried on this site doesn't mention medical at all.

http://www.visajourney.com/content/visitor-visa-guide

Would be cool if it was not required!!

David

as I said before... it is NOT needed...

[ONA 133]

as I said before... it is NOT needed...

Right.

And the best place to look for the stuff actually needed for getting a visa is the embassy website.

General Application Package

B-1/B-2 Visas

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Gary, are you sure you answered the OP's question accurately?

I gave an accurate list of vaccines for the AOS. Tourist visas do not require vaccines, neither do K-1 visas. The OP has been posting all over the site for a list of vaccines. He has it now.

[james&olya 1,121]

A 'record' of vaccines can be had for a price. Not recommending it but that is how things get done there!

[Aaron_and_Lana 0]

She is still "married" to her cousin,

i know its an off-top, but im just curious about these few words,

i probably misunderstood smth

[baron555 934]

My Ukrainian fiancee has been trying to get a record of her vaccines and has been unsuccessful. She would like to visit the USA. What vaccines are absolutely necessary? She is 1 month pregnant, so she cant really just take them all. She IS planning to return to Ukraine again because we are working on the Fiancee Visa but have not applied yet. She is still "married" to her cousin, so I think there is a chance it could work out but the only thing is the vaccine requirements.

Understand that this part may the hardest part to obtain. Is the petitioner going to be with her at the tourist visa interview?

[DavidandIrina 1]

No I was going to go with her to the interview for the tourist visa. I've been there to see her a bunch of times already, but we'd like to have her visit her new home here with me in the USA. I guess we'll do a backup plan of going to Mexico. Guess if she can't be in our home together, then we might as well lay on a beach in the mexican sun ;-)

[DavidandIrina 1]

i know its an off-top, but im just curious about these few words,

i probably misunderstood smth

She is married to her second cousin. There are lots of things that Ukrainian women cannot do as a single women. For example, getting visas to other countries are extremely hard because the foreign country assumes that any single woman is going to try to marry a citizen, or getting a mortgage (often they are required to have a husband, as was her case for her current mortgage). So she asked him to marry her and he said yes, but they haven't seen or really talked in over two years. The marriage even had an expiration date of when she was going to get divorced, and she divorced exactly when she said she would. A marriage of convenience not love.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

She is married to her second cousin. There are lots of things that Ukrainian women cannot do as a single women. For example, getting visas to other countries are extremely hard because the foreign country assumes that any single woman is going to try to marry a citizen, or getting a mortgage (often they are required to have a husband, as was her case for her current mortgage). So she asked him to marry her and he said yes, but they haven't seen or really talked in over two years. The marriage even had an expiration date of when she was going to get divorced, and she divorced exactly when she said she would. A marriage of convenience not love.

Marriages such as this are fairly common though her reasons are a bit unusual. Most often t is to gain residence in some desireable city that limits population. Moscow and St Petersburg for example. Many times people from less well off former republics will marry someone from Moscow, Kiev or St Petersburg to get out of Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, etc. Kind of an immigration fraud in itself.