FAQs: Forms I-693 and DS-3025

[Melyssa 0]

Here is another link about my situation (regarding our RFE for a medical exam) that is hopefully helpful to others: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112959

[Melyssa 0]

Here is another link about my situation (regarding our RFE for a medical exam) that is hopefully helpful to others: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=112959

If you're not at the AOS stage yet but are still waiting for your visa and researching AOS, when you enter the U.S. with your K visa, make sure you ask for a copy of your medical at the border in case you need it for AOS. Can't guarantee they will give you one but they just might. And it might come in helpful if you do end up getting this RFE. You're not supposed to get an RFE for a medical if your medical is not a year old, but it has been happening a lot, according to the posts on this forum - so it would be good to be prepared!

And to anyone who does get this RFE, I can't guarantee that what we did will work for you, but my recommendations would be:

- Get your congressman involved!!! If at first the person you speak with does not seem to be listening to you, do not give up, insist that you are not supposed to have to do the medical again and read the part in the I-485 instructions that says such (at first mine kept insisting that I had to do it again until I read her that part - she didn't read it all the way through and they put the little blurb that says K visa holders do not have to do the medical again but just have to submit the vaccination report.) Even if it does turn out that they can't do anything (which I think is UNLIKELY) at the very LEAST they will be made aware of the problem, and hopefully it will draw attention to the problem so they will be able to try to fix the seeming increasingly common problem of THEM losing our medical exams instead of just issuing RFE's for us to get new expensive medicals especially when our tests came back clean and them losing the medicals is NOT our fault.

- Contact your Consulate that you had your interview in in your home country, explain the situation, and ask if they can send you a sealed copy of your medical if they have one. They may say they don't have one (as happened with us,) but it doesn't hurt to try and it has worked for someone on this forum.

- Contact the physician who did your medical, explain the situation, and ask if they can send you a sealed copy. Again, they may say they cannot do it (as again, happened with us,) but again, it does not hurt to try.

We did several other things as well. I'm not sure if they actually accepted the copy we sent of the medical that we asked for at the border, or actually looked for the original and found the lost medical - so I'm not saying that just sending a copy of the medical, if you thought to ask for one at the border when you entered with your K visa, is going to necessarily help - because I don't know if it did for us, or if they actually found the copy they were supposed to have. I think our approval was based on a combination of a whole lot of things - being willing to comply/being co-operative (we attached a letter to the RFE in which I stated that we were doing everything we possibly could to track down our medical - including contacting our congressman, contacting the doctor I went to, etc.) AS WELL AS stating that if it was really absolutely necessary and that if what we sent was not good enough, I would do the medical again (and I would have.)

Be honest, polite, forceful (but gentle - you have to find a good balance so they don't think you're just being stupid or rude), PATIENT, and if you are successful, make sure you let your congressman rep know that they helped and thank them!

And if you get this RFE, please feel free to contact me!

You are married now and should not have to worry about silly things like this!!!

Edited February 28, 2008 by Melyssa

[Malla 1]

I just called to Dr office, voicemassage said, its closed for weekend. How long it takes to get vaccination supplement form for whole process? Should i need to send some document from my seld. I aslo called other docors? They said it cost 350$ for it.

[Melyssa 0]

I just called to Dr office, voicemassage said, its closed for weekend. How long it takes to get vaccination supplement form for whole process? Should i need to send some document from my seld. I aslo called other docors? They said it cost 350$ for it.

I don't know - $350 sounds like a LOT and that's a total rip-off if they actually meant just for the supplement. $350 sounds like the cost for an entire medical (and a more expensive doctor at that!) so I'm guessing they misunderstood you and thought you meant the whole medical, which you didn't but that would be a common misunderstanding I'm sure. We didn't have to wait because we just called them and they gave us an appointment, so we showed up and asked for the vaccination to be transcribed. At first the doctor said I needed the I-693 but we said we just needed the supplement so he transcribed it and it took maybe two minutes and then asked for $25.

[Malla 1]

Which doctor did u called? Is this the doctor of Austin did u call? I am also thinking to call the Doctor of Austin?

[Melyssa 0]

Which doctor did u called? Is this the doctor of Austin did u call? I am also thinking to call the Doctor of Austin?

Dr. Frank Brady in New Jersey.

[Malla 1]

I just called Dr Arnold. The lady wanted me to send copy of documents. On form DS 3025, i only have 2 vaccination MMR and TD. and Varicell was dont by after gettign visa as per doctor suggestion. So i have 3 vaccination record( MMR, TD and Varicell) on vaccination card? So can i send copy of the vaccination card which have all 3 vaccinations?

And on the supp. form i should include my name as in card or should i inlude married name?

I also have Hepatits B, vaccination documents which i have done beofre my K1, the doctors said it is not necessay at time of K1, so i didnt submit by that time. Should i send to Dr Arnold now??

[Melyssa 0]

I just called Dr Arnold. The lady wanted me to send copy of documents. On form DS 3025, i only have 2 vaccination MMR and TD. and Varicell was dont by after gettign visa as per doctor suggestion. So i have 3 vaccination record( MMR, TD and Varicell) on vaccination card? So can i send copy of the vaccination card which have all 3 vaccinations?

And on the supp. form i should include my name as in card or should i inlude married name?

I also have Hepatits B, vaccination documents which i have done beofre my K1, the doctors said it is not necessay at time of K1, so i didnt submit by that time. Should i send to Dr Arnold now??

I'm not sure about the answers to this, maybe you should post in the main AOS forum so more people will check it...

[Lili 3]

I just called Dr Arnold. The lady wanted me to send copy of documents. On form DS 3025, i only have 2 vaccination MMR and TD. and Varicell was dont by after gettign visa as per doctor suggestion. So i have 3 vaccination record( MMR, TD and Varicell) on vaccination card? So can i send copy of the vaccination card which have all 3 vaccinations?

And on the supp. form i should include my name as in card or should i inlude married name?

I also have Hepatits B, vaccination documents which i have done beofre my K1, the doctors said it is not necessay at time of K1, so i didnt submit by that time. Should i send to Dr Arnold now??

You should send copy of the vaccination card.

On the supplement form, you should put the exact same name that you will use on all your paperwork. As your married name is different than the name on your vaccination card, a copy of your marriage certificate should be sent along.

You should submit everything you have, vaccination wise. Then they will do the necessary.

My advice is based on my own experience, so i may be wrong. Call them and ask.

[mconfes 0]

My wife had her full medical (I693a) done on 10.2.07. We filed for AOS on 2.20.08. Is it possible that her medical will expire before our case is approved? Is it possible that she'll have to take another medical?

[Krikit 1,164]

My wife had her full medical (I693a) done on 10.2.07. We filed for AOS on 2.20.08. Is it possible that her medical will expire before our case is approved? Is it possible that she'll have to take another medical?

The medical just needs to be current at time of filing. Mine was 7 months out of date at approval and I didn't require another. I think, though, that it may be different if the approval takes years. Perhaps someone with that experience will chime in.

[mconfes 0]

I hoping that's the case. Thanks for the input.

[fedekat 0]

Another reason for a medical RFE.... you are required to have a TB skin test, not just the X-RAY test done in other countries. We got an RFE because of this, so make sure to send the results of a skin TB test if you have not done so already.

[Ali e Jeff 0]

Please, I am with some doubts about the vaccination

I come with my Vaccination Documentation Worksheet (DS-3025) incomplete, as I still need some shots according with the vaccination schedule.

I arrive here in december 25, get marry last march,20.

We want to file for AOS as soon as possible.

So I am aware that I need to go to a civil surgeon to get this form I-693a with all shots that are in my DS-3025 plus the ones that I take after the medical (in Brasil and here)...my problem is that I still have more shots

this month for Td (last shot) and

for may, the last Hepatite B shot is schedule for may,7h.

So, can I file for AOS like everybody or I will need to wait?

What I can do? I think that other people have this issue too...

Please some advice

Thanks in advance

Ali

[Ali e Jeff 0]

Please, I am with some doubts about the vaccination

I come with my Vaccination Documentation Worksheet (DS-3025) incomplete, as I still need some shots according with the vaccination schedule.

I arrive here in december 25, get marry last march,20.

We want to file for AOS as soon as possible.

So I am aware that I need to go to a civil surgeon to get this form I-693a with all shots that are in my DS-3025 plus the ones that I take after the medical (in Brasil and here)...my problem is that I still have more shots

this month for Td (last shot) and

for may, the last Hepatite B shot is schedule for may,7h.

So, can I file for AOS like everybody or I will need to wait?

What I can do? I think that other people have this issue too...

Please some advice

Nobody?

Thanks in advance

Ali