AOS

[Muffin and Bear 0]

Hello everybody,

I have a question, I arrived here in the States last September and my port of entry was Honolulu. Upon arrival, Honolulu Immigration took the sealed packet, couple of pictures of my husband and me, and the vaccination copy I got from St. Lukes. Now, my husband and me are preparing to apply for my AOS, then both medical and vaccine sheet is no longer in my hand. Do I need to repeat the medical? what about the vaccine. Its not even a year i took it from St. Lukes, Manila.

I arrived in here with K3 visa.

Thanks for the reply.

[Corey-Mariya 14]

Guys! You do not have to repeat the whole med exam, but you will need to take care of the vaccinations. Find the closest civil surgeon on the uscis website, call them and make an appointment, they will give you shoots and will fill out the med form, it will cost around 100$+cost of the shoots

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Your medical exam gets passed from the POE to your file. It will be there with your AOS application so you don't have to do another. There would have been an immunization sheet in the brown envelope too. Are you saying he took your copy? If so, that was for your records and the way you would show the Civil Surgeon what shots you have already had. Do you have any other record of immunization, like from your family doctor at home? There's not so many shots to get for adults. Here's a link with a chart showing the shots and ages. See page 2 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5753-Immunization.pdf

[Izoom 0]

This happen to my wife as well when she entered via Halifax. The USCIS officer took the whole packet and as far as we have searched, no other records exist in our hands. While I might say that this is our fault, I would also place the blame on the USCIS as well.

I would think that since she is "in the system" that when she submits her application, the information on a hypothetical I-693 would already be in the database?

[Izoom 0]

Someone has to have had this happen as well. Please, any input would be appreciated at this point.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Maybe we're talking about different things here. My fiance/husband was given a spare copy of his shot record by the panel physician at the medical. He packed that with his general files that contained his other important papers. He didn't have it in hand at POE.

The panel physician filled out a medical exam form and a shot record form as he is supposed to do and sent that to the Embassy. The embassy puts everything to do with your file in a brown envelope and sends it to you to pass off to POE.

So normally an immigrant gives only the brown envelope to POE and they don't give you anything out of it. I thought the first poster on this thread was saying she gave her personal spare copy of the shot record to POE plus the sealed brown envelope. So now she doesn't have a copy of her shots because she made a mistake and turned it in.

Justin, your case sounds different. Danielle wasn't supposed to be given medical information out of the brown envelope at POE. She should have gotten a copy of her shot record from the doctor in Canada and filed it away.

So the problem for both cases--no way to show a Civil Surgeon what shots have already been received. For AOS of K1s, you don't have to have another full medical exam, but you do have to submit a Form I-693 with the immunization part filled out, signed by a US Civil Surgeon and sealed in an envelope. So how to show the CS what shots you had? If she took a Canadian shot record to her K1 medical, then she can show that. If her doctor in Canada, can send her another record, that will do. If she got additional shots by the Panel Physician at the K1 medical, then I'm not sure if they keep records of all the people that come through. Any way you can prove having a shot previously can be used by the Civil Surgeon to document your immunization. So see if you can come up with a way to show him.