Failed to Pass Health Exam for Visa Interview

[Panda_T 0]

Hi, dear all,

I feel so disappointment that my mom is required to do extra check after x-ray exam and the result will be available after 40 days, so my mom cannot keep visa appointment.

I have several questions:

1: After 40 days, will the hospital inform NVC or my mom for her check result?

2: If my mom's health exam is ok after 40 days, who will inform NVC to reschedule next visa interview, the hospital or my mom?

3: I already send NVC my mom's police certificate (issued last December), if the police certificate is expired in next visa interview, does she need to renew her police certificate?

Thanks!

[Chris921 13]

i believe she can still go to her interview they will just issue a request for the evidence after it and won'tissue until they receive the results this is just my take on itm i could be wrong

[Panda_T 0]

Thanks for your reply.

She cannot make the appointment, the hospital will not issue medical result to her, without the medical result, she cannot go to the interview.

The hospital told my mom they will call the consullate to cancel the application.

[bobbyA 20]

She cannot make the appointment, the hospital will not issue medical result to her, without the medical result, she cannot go to the interview.

The hospital told my mom they will call the consullate to cancel the application.

Let me share with you my experience and you can decide what to do

Back in July, my wife (my fiancee at the time) went for medical on a Saturday. Because the medical facility was not equipped to do further testing on her blood sample for final confirmation, they had to wait till Monday to send it to a different lab. They told us they would inform the Guangzhou consulate to reschedule her interview. That was a torturous weekend for us.

I sent an email to the consulate on Sunday hoping for a reply on Monday morning, but no reply till this day.

8:30am on Monday, we called the medical facility and was told we have to wait. We called another facility at 9:30am for their opinion, and was told that no one besides the consulate can tell us not to go for interview. My fiancee was to turn in her documents at 12:30pm that Monday. So by 10:30am, we just had to do something about it. I went to the consulate's American Citizen Services and spoke to an immigration officer.

I asked him if it was OK for my fiancee to go ahead and turn in her documents and then proceed to interview without her medical report. He said, "I don't see why not." He was kind enough to confirm with his supervisor then came back to say that it's OK, just that my fiancee's visa will not be issued until she submitted her medical report.

To make the story short, it was a happy ending. We got her medical report on the day of her interview, just minutes before she was called to the interview window.

So I would say have your mother go turn in her documents and go for the interview. She'll probably get a "blue" sheet of paper asking for her medical report after her interview.

I concluded from my own experience that the medical report is just one piece of document like any other, for instance your I-134/I-864 or tax transcript. Missing any one piece of document shouldn't stop anyone from going to their interview.

Hope that helps

[Darnell 8,479]

Thanks for your reply.

She cannot make the appointment, the hospital will not issue medical result to her, without the medical result, she cannot go to the interview.

The hospital told my mom they will call the consullate to cancel the application.

They meant [the hospital] cancel the appointment, not cancel the application.

Not trying to nitpick, but the hospital can't cancel the application, even with the most dire result of a medical exam - that's still up to a Visa Officer at the IV Unit.

I suggest regardless, that yer parent go in for the INTERVIEW and then be inquisitive about a 'medical waiver' to be coded on the passport.

The hospital not take away the appointment letter from yer parent, so yer parent can get into the IV unit on her schedule appointment day, with that letter, her passport, even sans the medical package.

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

I'm assuming the x-ray check prompted the dreaded sputum exam for TB?

If that is the case then she will have to wait for the IV interview until after the culture results (and treatment if required) that's why the Clinic notifies the US Embassy that the applicant won't be attending their scheduled interview. If she's required to undergo treatment then it will be six months of treatment before she can be medically cleared and by that time some of her documents are sure to have expired and will need replacing.

[Panda_T 0]

Thanks all of you for your reply.

My mom will stay in Guangzhou for one more week for further check. She is scheduled to send documents at Oct 31, 2011, next Monday.

I ALREADY send email to NVC to tell them my mom cannot make the appointment,is it matter? In this case, can my mom still send documents as scheduled and goese to interview next mooring (Tuesday)? OR as long as my mom has the appointment letter, she can go to the IV interview?

I have thought she need to reschedule her interview only after she get her medical results.

I will ask my mom to send docuemnts as schedule.

Please give me more idea, thanks!

Edited October 27, 2011 by Panda_T

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

I don't know why you're bothering the NVC, it's out of their hands once they forwarded her case file to the Embassy. You should be contacting the Embassy.

[Panda_T 0]

My mom is required to do three times "痰培养" for further check, for this reason, so the doctor told my mom, since the reason, you must cancel your interview, is he right? in this situation, can my mom go to interview?

[Darnell 8,479]

your mom can go to interview.

She may be held up afterwards on these medical conditions, but

in the same breath - it truly is all at the VO's discretion -

and

this is why I'm saying to you - to have her show up.

One possible outcome is that the VO gives her a medical waiver, and then she gets special coding in her visa stamp reflecting that. IF that's the case, then there's no more waiting. BUT - she won't be considered for it, unless she actually shows up on the two days (document day and interview day)

There are other possible outcomes, sure - 痰培养 is not something to put aside lightly...

re: telling NVC she cannot make the interview - my apologies - if I interpret what you've written literally, this is a bad thing you did.

Edited October 28, 2011 by Darnell

[Panda_T 0]

If my mom goes to interview and she miss the medical report,her visa will be rejected unitl they receive her reports, right? In this case, is her passport also be held at consulate?

[Darnell 8,479]

if you replace 'rejected' with 'not be issued' then what you've written makes sense. 'rejected until' is rather strange construct, to me.

Usually, for medical stuff, they not keep the passport at the IV Unit, the Beneficiary keeps it, and later, a call-in-letter (weird name, ya?) is sent to the Beneficiary, with a range of times, days of the week , to come in with the passport.

And that's the tail end, that worst case scenario, if her sputum tests are clear later. There are other options with less of a time lag.

IMO, you should somehow ensure your mother goes to the document intake day, hand over documents, and go to interview day. It very well may be that the x-ray interpretation was a bit off, she might get a medical waiver with the IV unit on interview day due to her age.

Good Luck !

Edited October 28, 2011 by Darnell

[Panda_T 0]

Usually, for medical stuff, they not keep the passport at the IV Unit, the Beneficiary keeps it, and later, a call-in-letter (weird name, ya?) is sent to the Beneficiary, with a range of times, days of the week , to come in with the passport.

Darnell, thank you very much.

After get the call-in letter, does my mom have to come back to Guangzhou again or just mail-in the passport to consulate?

[Darnell 8,479]

call-in-letter = show up in person.

[Panda_T 0]

Ask a silly question, while document intake, does my mom tell them that she doesn't have medical repot yet and the reason? since the hospitial told my mom they would inform consulate her case.