Vaccinations required for K-1

[vanlee 0]

My fiance has her Consulate interview appointment coming up in Bogota this January and in looking at the medical exam requirements it lists 16 different vaccinations as required by our lovely government....Is that for real?????? And what's more, the fees for the medical exams, lab work, and then vaccinations appear to be way above the Colombian market price. What a racket, the Embassy gives us only two choices for medical doctors to do the exam and they both conveniently charge the maximum allowed price (much higher than market prices). Smells of kick-backs to me. Sorry for ranting, my main concern is the 16 different vaccinations required. Will they really require all of them??? I'm not a big advocate of excessive vaccinating. Any comments from anyone on this topic????

[vadood 0]

My fiance has her Consulate interview appointment coming up in Bogota this January and in looking at the medical exam requirements it lists 16 different vaccinations as required by our lovely government....Is that for real?????? And what's more, the fees for the medical exams, lab work, and then vaccinations appear to be way above the Colombian market price. What a racket, the Embassy gives us only two choices for medical doctors to do the exam and they both conveniently charge the maximum allowed price (much higher than market prices). Smells of kick-backs to me. Sorry for ranting, my main concern is the 16 different vaccinations required. Will they really require all of them??? I'm not a big advocate of excessive vaccinating. Any comments from anyone on this topic????

It depends on age and sex of the applicant. I do not think everybody will need all of the vaccines.

[Penguin_ie 5,997]

A lot of the vaccinations are done during childhood, so your fiancee may already have had them. If she does need to get them done, there is no need to have them done by the official doctor; she can have the vaccinations done by her own doctor or health department, and then just bring proof of the vaccinations to her medical exam.

[TFYAR 0]

My fiancee went Dec 3rd for the Medical Exam (Dr Roa) and needed four vaccinations. (MMR, Varicella, HPV, and Tdap) The total cost for all four was $450,000 pesos from IDE (Inmunologia y Diagnostico Especializado).

[mmasep 0]

Oh yes I had to get all of thouse vaccinations, and to make it worse I reicive some of them twice... before I had the doctors apptment in bogota, I decided to accelerate things by myself a couple of months before so I went to the colombian red cross and vaccinate myself against everything know... and when I came back to the embassy doctor NICE surprice!! I had to get vaccines again , why? they said they had expired or what ever and that I needed another dose.. I guess they just wanted my $$$.

so dont go by yourself and get vaccinations just wait for the 16 at the embassys doctor..

Good luck with your interview!

[K and L 27]

The doctor lied, vaccinations don't expire in a matter of months. They expire in a matter of years, if ever. For instance, two MMR vaccinations (supposedly) ensure life-long immunity. Tetanus (Tdap) is every 5 years. (HPV is no longer required, but I believe it's life-long like MMR.)