PLEASE READ k-1 Admitting drugs at medical, can be basis for denial? Australia

[elephanzo 4]

I am SO SCARED. I have been up all night on this website and I am just now learning that admitting to having experimented with a drug even one time can result in denial of visa and a one year (or longer) ban!?!!

How did I never stumble across this before?

Wouldn't this encourage people to lie? I mean what percentage of adults in the world have experimented with one drug at one time or another? So if people are getting accepted for "not ever doing drugs" then a lot of people are getting accepted for lying.

At my fiance's medical exam in Sydney, him doing what he thought was the honest thing to do, told the truth about having tried ecstasy one time 6 years ago.

Now I am reading all of these posts about people getting banned for telling the truth.

Has anyone admitted to having experimented with a drug and been approved or denied? Please tell me your stories.

Especially if you have dealt with embassies in Australia, New Zealand or England. Please!

[Boiler 45,525]

A year is the norm but you will not know until the interview.

[Transborderwife 4,666]

Some threads to peruse:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/521438-drug-ban-1-year/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/443817-admiited-previous-drug-use/

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/439493-one-year-ban-from-drug-use/

[elephanzo 4]

Well, if anyone ever stumbles across this topic because they are looking for an answer... in our case my fiancee was approved. At the interview, he said it looked like the doctor's note was there and may have said something like "one time experimentation" and the person conducting the interview let it slide. Thank God! We are so happy.

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

Thanks for the update, and congrats!

[MickAmy 26]

Thanks for posting OP. I have been looking for an answer as my fiance had his medical after the interview and he just received papers from the doctor. The box checked said "use of drugs other than those required for medical reasons" but the box two below where it says alcohol or drug abuse is no. He hasn't touched anything in 13 years, no convictions, and so on. He was a teenager so that was a long time ago! We were just worried because we of course don't have an answer from the interviewer as his interview took place before the medical. I'm hoping to hear something soon. I'm hoping that they did a drug test to prove that he is clean and that is sufficient. He does have proof of passing drug tests over the last few years for his employment so maybe they will have those records as well. Ugh, I wasn't stressed about it as it's been so many years but now I have nothing else to stress about so of course I'm going to now.

[TBoneTX 45,304]

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