I-693-A (Vaccination Supplement)

[pawynton 0]

Hello everyone,

My wife and I are about to file for her AOS. One of the documents asked for is a Medical or vaccination supplement. She had her Medical in January but the doctor put everything in a sealed envelop, which is now in Houston, Texas. We can't go and get more vaccination shots now because she is pregnant. What do we do? Please help if you have any solutions

W & M

[hcj 0]

She still needs to go and get a vaccination supplement signed off by a civil surgeon. If the shots are not medically appropriate (because she's pregnant), she will not be required to get them.

Call around, some civil surgeons seem to insist on a full medical, others will sign off on the supplement for a small fee, a rare few will sign off for free.

[kc456 0]

You should still go to get the supplement. I was in a slighly different situation -- needed a full medical (adjusting from H1B), but could not get the shots done because of pregnancy. The Dr wrote "vaccinations to be done after delivery." I think this will be the case for you. The "incomplete" medical was not a problem at the interview at all. I was a bit worried, but I read of exactly the same situation that someone else on VJ had, and it appears that USCIS does not give you a hard time about that at all.

Another option is to get bloodwork done, which would show if the wife has immunity to the deseases in question. I had these done in the regular course of pregnancy visits -- but it would not have quite worked for me, since I did not have immunity against one of the illnesses.

In either case, this is not a big problem.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I would still try to get the supplement. Some vaccinations are and are not appropriate when pregnant.

Table 4. Vaccination of Pregnant Women

from here

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dq/civil.htm