Benign medical condition.....is it a reason to fail the medical????

[jimmy_lizzy4ever 0]

Hello VJ friends!

Any comments especially from VJ members who had their medical experience at Saint lukes ,Manila would be a greatly appreciated !

I have a benign medical condition that needs operation ( endometrioma )My husband and I decided to do the operation in the US coz i will be included in his health insurance as soon as i arrive.But im a bit worried coz i dont know if this will cause me to fail the medical.

Do i have to tell it to the examiner or just hide it...

[Laure&Colin 560]

Hello VJ friends!

Any comments especially from VJ members who had their medical experience at Saint lukes ,Manila would be a greatly appreciated !

I have a benign medical condition that needs operation ( endometrioma )My husband and I decided to do the operation in the US coz i will be included in his health insurance as soon as i arrive.But im a bit worried coz i dont know if this will cause me to fail the medical.

Do i have to tell it to the examiner or just hide it...

It is no grounds for denial of a visa.

The only medical conditions that would make you ineligible are having a contagious disease that causes public health concern (TB, syphillis mostly), being a drug or alcohol abuser, or having a mental diseases that causes harmful behavior against yourself or others.

[jimmy_lizzy4ever 0]

It is no grounds for denial of a visa.

The only medical conditions that would make you ineligible are having a contagious disease that causes public health concern (TB, syphillis mostly), being a drug or alcohol abuser, or having a mental diseases that causes harmful behavior against yourself or others.

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Thanks for your reply...

Edited February 25, 2012 by jimmy_lizzy4ever

[jimmy_lizzy4ever 0]

thanks for your reply!

[canadian_wife 1,829]

I would double check BEFORE you arrive in the US that his medical insurance will cover this procedure, it is pre-existing and previously diagnosed and treatment as been deferred. I'd hate for you to arrive in the US only to find out that it isn't covered

Good luck

[Wishfull 3]

Maybe you will not be denied but your condition might cause some delays on your visa approval. I just came from my medical last Feb 21. I happened to talk to a parent of a USC whose lungs are not symmetrically aligned as seen on his X-Ray. Though its not contagious but it caused him so much delay that the doctors recommended for the parent to seek some medical help prior to going back to St. Lukes for a follow-up medical. In effect, he wasn't issued a medical clearance. But on the otherhand, its a case to case basis. I'd still wish you well on your medical. Good luck!

[jimmy_lizzy4ever 0]

Maybe you will not be denied but your condition might cause some delays on your visa approval. I just came from my medical last Feb 21. I happened to talk to a parent of a USC whose lungs are not symmetrically aligned as seen on his X-Ray. Though its not contagious but it caused him so much delay that the doctors recommended for the parent to seek some medical help prior to going back to St. Lukes for a follow-up medical. In effect, he wasn't issued a medical clearance. But on the otherhand, its a case to case basis. I'd still wish you well on your medical. Good luck!

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Maybe you will not be denied but your condition might cause some delays on your visa approval. I just came from my medical last Feb 21. I happened to talk to a parent of a USC whose lungs are not symmetrically aligned as seen on his X-Ray. Though its not contagious but it caused him so much delay that the doctors recommended for the parent to seek some medical help prior to going back to St. Lukes for a follow-up medical. In effect, he wasn't issued a medical clearance. But on the otherhand, its a case to case basis. I'd still wish you well on your medical. Good luck!

The purpose of an immigration medical is not to determine whether the intending immigrant is 100% healthy. The purpose is to determine if they are medically inadmissible. If they didn't clear him at St. Lukes then they suspected a medical inadmissibility. If it involved his lungs then they might have suspected TB. The long delay may have been for sputum culture tests. I suspect this person you were talking to didn't give you the entire story. They don't refuse to clear someone at their immigration medical unless they suspect a medical in admissibility.

[Laure&Colin 560]

Well, to avoid requests of follow up exams, people here have advised me to go to the medical examination with a letter from my doctor explaining my condition in details and the treatment that I receive. If your condition is already known, it was explored, properly diagnosed and it's treated then there's no problem.