Notice of Potential Interview Waiver Case [Part II]

[shell20 746]

I remember reading some test actually resulted as a false. Just like when people eat poppy seeds and the test reading showing they have had use drugs. Probably that's how happened. I hope it is false results.

Time to put in your service request I did yesterday along with the ombudsman. I ran out of text with the ombudsman telling them what was REALLY going on and how many people have suffered with false interviews, rfes, phones being slammed down etc! Now all I have to do is wait 45 business days to get a reply!! Ah well...

[Girl from Celebes 588]

Time to put in your service request I did yesterday along with the ombudsman. I ran out of text with the ombudsman telling them what was REALLY going on and how many people have suffered with false interviews, rfes, phones being slammed down etc! Now all I have to do is wait 45 business days to get a reply!! Ah well...

Yes, like Derwood says, the system is now down. Probably too many people upset for this whole process. I will do that later in this month.

[vivian2014 1]

I remember reading some test actually resulted as a false. Just like when people eat poppy seeds and the test reading showing they have had use drugs. Probably that's how happened. I hope it is false results.

Thanks ,i hope that too .

[vivian2014 1]

On this occasion I am not happy that I was right, my only consolation is that it has been found, it its not a false positive result, so that you can the treatment that is needed and you're also in a country with up to date medicines I would definitely get it retaken, just to be 100 percent sure as from what I remember when I was nursing, the treatment is a long course of strong antibiotics, but that was 2007 so things might have changed since then.

Congratulations!! Nearly hit your anniversary, but now you can celebrate the new arrival instead!!! Happy for you both! Enjoy!

Yes . I want to be sure before I just start medicine too , I have the second test set up on next Monday. My stomach is very weak ,not sure how it react to those strong pills .I hope it will turn out to be false result .It freaked my husband ,he insist that I should take medicine right now .But any test can have false result sometimes

[TrixieStep 10]

Still nothing for us....

[nlherman 36]

shell,you are right .I am having very bad luck lately ,when I redo the medical ,my TB test shows positive for the first time in my life ,but my X-RAY is clear ,doctor think I was exposed in TB and carry latent TB,and want me to take nine months of medicine .He think it won't affect my case approval .I sent all those back to USCIS yesterday. I am not going to take any medicine until I redo the TB test to double check the result. I really doubt the result because last year It was negative ,and I didn't go to much place at all in the whole year

I kinda know a bit about medicine...Yeah a positive TB skin test (PPD) can be spurious and a second test soon after the first can be done. Be aware a true positive 1st test will make a quick 2nd test reaction even more obvious...

As for not going anywhere, TB is on the rise again with the increased number of immunosuppressed individuals (either HIV or from medications). You can get it from a ride on a NYC subway or from droplets from an unknowingly infected person sneezing in your local market....

The TB bacterium is a slow growing, persistent little #######. When it gets it'll the body usually through the lung it find as a place to lurk...even in small numbers it indigestion a body immune reaction which gives the positive reaction to the skin test. The goal in early treatment is to keep it from form a larger "rest" lesion in the lung which is the body forming a wall around a growing mass of these "red snappers" which they are affectionately call if seen under the microscope with special stains in lung samples in infectious patients.

Isoniazide is the treatment of choice to do this (sometimes with a second or even third drug) taken daily for 6 - 12 months. Not my favorite drug.. A patient who takes must be monitored for sir effects, generally liver...

If you are positive, you will need to find a doctor for all this. If you like this doc and he agrees to take you as a patient, he or she could do it. I would recommend going to a local multi-specialty clinic that has all the services you might need...

Contrary to popular belief, TB is never "cured"...Once you got the bug, it's always there. But if you drive it into deep hiding in small numbers walled off by the body most people with it never get the advanced symptoms...people are monitored with annual chest x-rays...

No it will not stop your approval since you were negative before, have no lesion on x-ray and " got it" here in the US.

Hope this helps...

Edited May 13, 2015 by nlhernan

[vivian2014 1]

Ok. today I've got a request dated April 29 for new medical!! I need to submit one before May 29, but it doesn't say where I should mail it, and another thing it says I need to submit COMPLETE updated I 693, does it mean I need to do all full medical exam?! But when you look at the instruction for I 693, it says we don't need full exam, just vaccination records.. Confusing. Any thoughts, experience? Thanks

I don't know the exact answer for this ,but I try to offer a little help. I received a new medical request too ,and what I did was I took the RFE notice with me ,and my old medical result ,my vaccination records too ,My civil surgeon read all of those and he did what need to be done based on his understanding ,he called USCIS too .

Ok. today I've got a request dated April 29 for new medical!! I need to submit one before May 29, but it doesn't say where I should mail it, and another thing it says I need to submit COMPLETE updated I 693, does it mean I need to do all full medical exam?! But when you look at the instruction for I 693, it says we don't need full exam, just vaccination records.. Confusing. Any thoughts, experience? Thanks

It took time to set up an appointment ,and took a few days to get the result from doctor too ,you need hurry

[bubblebubble 16]

I checked my local office and it says they are now processing June 25th, 2014. I filed June 13th, 2014, and I don't see anything yet.

But like others said, your case file could ended up somewhere at other local USCIS office in the country.I won't hold my breath for that.

Your local office's processing time had nothing to do with the waiver cases. Mine started to process cases after my filing date like 2 months ago. I called and sent a service request. Turned out that my local office did not have jurisdiction over my case and it was still at NBC. THEY ARE HOLDING OUR CASES!

2 weeks later NBC sent me a note, well at the end of my 6-month-waiver-case-supposed-to-wait period, saying they are having a delay and they have no idea how long it is gonna be.

I hope we all get our cases approved soon!

Edited May 13, 2015 by bubblebubble

[vivian2014 1]

I kinda know a bit about medicine...Yeah a positive TB skin test (PPD) can be spurious and a second test soon after the first can be done. Be aware a true positive 1st test will make a quick 2nd test reaction even more obvious...

As for not going anywhere, TB is on the rise again with the increased number of immunosuppressed individuals (either HIV or from medications). You can get it from a ride on a NYC subway or from droplets from an unknowingly infected person sneezing in your local market....

The TB bacterium is a slow growing, persistent little #######. When it gets it'll the body usually through the lung it find as a place to lurk...even in small numbers it indigestion a body immune reaction which gives the positive reaction to the skin test. The goal in early treatment is to keep it from form a larger "rest" lesion in the lung which is the body forming a wall around a growing mass of these "red snappers" which they are affectionately call if seen under the microscope with special stains in lung samples in infectious patients.

Isoniazide is the treatment of choice to do this (sometimes with a second or even third drug) taken daily for 6 - 12 months. Not my favorite drug.. A patient who takes must be monitored for sir effects, generally liver...

If you are positive, you will need to find a doctor for all this. If you like this doc and he agrees to take you as a patient, he or she could do it. I would recommend going to a local multi-specialty clinic that has all the services you might need...

Contrary to popular belief, TB is never "cured"...Once you got the bug, it's always there. But if you drive it into deep hiding in small numbers walled off by the body most people with it never get the advanced symptoms...people are monitored with annual chest x-rays...

No it will not stop your approval since you were negative before, have no lesion on x-ray and " got it" here in the US.

Hope this helps...

Thanks for your information . What I did was not a skin test ,it was a more accurate one called gold test ,and I asked the doctor to redo the test on MONDAY on me .They don't think it is necessary to redo the test ,but I have doubt .My immune system is bad ,always low .And you are right ,my TB test result was always negative except this new one .If this result is true ,I did got it here in the last year .The civil surgeon already took me as his patient and going to give me treatment before I asked for the second test . If the second one remains positive ,I will receive the treatment .

[Zcomuto 16]

shell,you are right .I am having very bad luck lately ,when I redo the medical ,my TB test shows positive for the first time in my life ,but my X-RAY is clear ,doctor think I was exposed in TB and carry latent TB,and want me to take nine months of medicine .He think it won't affect my case approval .I sent all those back to USCIS yesterday. I am not going to take any medicine until I redo the TB test to double check the result. I really doubt the result because last year It was negative ,and I didn't go to much place at all in the whole year

I may be able to explain this, as I recently had a medical for work which gave me the same results.

You are testing positive for TB because of a vaccine called the "BCG Vaccine'. This works via exposing you to the TB virus and thus making you immune, but unfortunately, the common practice of TB testing done in the USA makes you test positive for the virus a lot of the time for simply having had the BCG vaccine. This test is used in the USA because BCG isn't routinely used and thus it's not generally an issue. I know the UK uses BCG, which is why I tested positive, and a quick google informs me 99.5% of China also uses it.

The nurse who did my medical had worked a lot overseas and explained this to me, and said the workaround was a quick blood test which came up as me being all healthy and TB-free. If you explain this to whoever did your medical, they'll most likely understand the situation.

[vivian2014 1]

I may be able to explain this, as I recently had a medical for work which gave me the same results.

You are testing positive for TB because of a vaccine called the "BCG Vaccine'. This works via exposing you to the TB virus and thus making you immune, but unfortunately, the common practice of TB testing done in the USA makes you test positive for the virus a lot of the time for simply having had the BCG vaccine. This test is used in the USA because BCG isn't routinely used and thus it's not generally an issue. I know the UK uses BCG, which is why I tested positive, and a quick google informs me 99.5% of China also uses it.

The nurse who did my medical had worked a lot overseas and explained this to me, and said the workaround was a quick blood test which came up as me being all healthy and TB-free. If you explain this to whoever did your medical, they'll most likely understand the situation.

I read something like this too .Because we asians got those BCG in childhood ,but if I didn't read wrong ,the so called "gold test"they performed on me is not affected by BCG ,only by active and latent TB .

[MovinOn 32]

Sure did im just hoping he is waiting lol, just had a text saying my EAD card in in TN and on Priority Mail 2-Day so should have that be thursday

I have been puling for you. I sure hope you guys get the 10year GC!

[Girl from Celebes 588]

Your local office's processing time had nothing to do with the waiver cases. Mine started to process cases after my filing date like 2 months ago. I called and sent a service request. Turned out that my local office did not have jurisdiction over my case and it was still at NBC. THEY ARE HOLDING OUR CASES!

2 weeks later NBC sent me a note, well at the end of my 6-month-waiver-case-supposed-to-wait period, saying they are having a delay and they have no idea how long it is gonna be.

I hope we all get our cases approved soon!

Yes, that's what I read too.

Though the woman on the phone just gave me a basic question regarding that matter that I could read easily on the USCIS website. Thankfully, I still kept in check my brain and not stormed out this woman after she kept telling me MSC was not a receipt number for I-485.

[shell20 746]

Still nothing for us....

Funny I hear crickets too!

[MovinOn 32]

Good Morning all! Lets see how things go today, it has been kinda calm this week BUT its only Wednesday. Still waiting for that RFE in the mail! Good Luck!