Medical and Packet 4 type stuff

[yabasta 0]

I should get packet 4 any day now so i am not going to go for a medical until i get that i guess. I only just found out you can arrange it beforehand. I just wondered what shots i need and if i can get anything ready. i need to ask my GP what shots i have got i guess.

Does anybody know what happens if my birth certificate is not "long". It is the original but not "long".

Also i am looking fo r alist of required shots and any idea if i would have to pay a gp?

Any advice is much needed as i am no good at official stuff.

[gym 0]

I know that you need to have the long version of your birth certificate....if you log on to the us embassy in london it will give you a list of vaccinations that you need...i personally would get them done by your GP before you go for the medical as they as quite expensive at the Knightsbridge doctors. The GPs in the UK do not charge for any vaccinations. I would definately get your medical appointment as soon as you can because they then need to send the results to the embassy, and i`m guessing that you do not want to be held up because of that. Good luck.

[yabasta 0]

thanks but do you know what happens if my original birth certificate is not long?

[gym 0]

Yes i only had my short version, but you do have to have your long version, all you do is apply for it at the registrars where you were born, it cost me 7 pounds and i received it back within 3 days, it is a certified copy which is sufficient, i checked that with the embassy, you just need to let them know your full name place and date of birth and your parents names

[yabasta 0]

Thanks you saved me at least one worry once i find out where i need to go to get that.

[godsavethequeen 0]

Hi,

Get onto your medical records quick with your GP. I'm trapped in a pre computerised system at my G.P. they are trying to locate my hand written records, through 12,000 files!!! So frustrating getting through the doctors receptionist....

this is from some visa site for immigration to US:-

What are the vaccination requirements?

You should have vaccinations for:

· Mumps

· Measles

· Rubella

· Polio

· Tetanus

· Diphtheria toxoids

· Pertussis

· Influenza type B

· Hepatitis B

If you are unable to submit all your vaccination records at the time of the exam, or if you have never had certain vaccines, the Civil Surgeon or Panel Physician can administer them to you.

Important: Do not try to fulfill your vaccination requirements before you meet with the Panel Physician or Civil Surgeon, in case it is not medically appropriate for you to have one or more of the required vaccines

[TracyTN 237]

Great list, godsavethequeen!!

I remember reading somewhere that the flu shot was only required if you are 60 years old or over. So that last sentence about not fulfilling the requirements before meeting with a civil surgeon refers to things like that, I believe.

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

Hepatitis B if under the age of 19

Influenza if over the age of 50

[govols 0]

Hepatitis B if under the age of 19

Influenza if over the age of 50

That's correct Bethanie.

I remember Tony had to get the long version of his birth certificate also.

karen

[yabasta 0]

I called my doctor today and it would seem they have only got records for polio and tetanus but both of those have expired. Should i have my medical and then get shots that they say i need? Or do i need to get a record of not having any shots? Is there any point in saying i have nothing? Seems odd that they are saying that. I thought vaccines lasted forever(at least some).

[Jo1973 0]

I got my shots done after the medical, went to GP's and got polio/tetanus and MMR, also asked them if they could write a letter confirming that I had had the shots etc, luckily it didn't cost a thing.

Make sure you keep the letter so that you can send a copy of it with your AOS application, this will save getting an RFE etc.

Good luck at the medical.

Edited June 15, 2006 by Jo1973

[Jaylen Brit 0]

godsavethequeen - I was in the exact same boat with MY GP medical records - it took almost 3 weeks, and they had to send away for the info to the people doing the records transfer to computer, to get what turned out to be photocopies of my med records showing the shots; which I transferred to a seperate sheet, listing all with dates, and took THAT with me to the medical - I also took the photocopies in case they wanted to check I hadn't made any up, lol.

They looked at my sheet (I've had over 25 shots in my life, including typhoid which raised an eyebrow at Kensington,lol, due to a lot of world travel) but still only entered the ones on the Embassy list - annoying as Ive had most if not ALL of the shots I'd need for AOS as well and I wanted that recorded. Still, I have the original copies frm my records and I'm dragging those to the US with me and hopefully the panel physician for AOS will accept them.

[Tim and Bethanie 1]

Poor Tim is going to his GP today to get the TD & MMR. Not sure about the chicken pox (varicella), no record of him having had them and I read somewhere the UK doesn't even give this vaccine. The rest I believe are not age appropriate. Yabasta you will probably find the same you will not even need the majority of these.

Any of you just tell the panel physician that you had the chicken pox in the past? If so was that okay? Tim knows he has had them, just records are to old(like him) and no longer in his file.

B

[Jaylen Brit 0]

If you have scars you can show them as proof of chicken pox..most accept that - even at AOS I've heard. Varicella is not given as a vaccine in the UK, so you're right about that one, but its also not age appropriate for somehttp://london.usembassy.gov/cons_new/visa/...ccinechart.html

Edited June 15, 2006 by Jaylen Brit

[munchkins 0]

someone may be able to answer, as I am over 60, (only just though ) and it is "out of season" for the flu jab, already had the tetanus one, will we still be required to have the flu one. I am sure that I phoned the embassy to ask this, but with senility setting in I can't really remember if they said yes or no

Edited June 15, 2006 by munchkins