K1 I-693 Clarification

[Tricked 33]

Hello,

Can I double check I'm reading the requirement for I-693 correctly; that K1 visa holders who have had their vaccinations already, and have the I-485 filled in the last year. Do not need to submit form I-693 at all?

Below are the two excerpts causing the confusion.

Thank you.

If you are a K-1, K-2, K-3 or K-4 visa holder the I-693 instructions state that you are not required to have another medical examination as long as your Form I-485 is filed within one year of your overseas medical examination. Regardless of if you are exempt from a medical exam, you are still required to complete certain portions of the I-693 and have a Civil Surgeon certify the form (and seal it in an evelope). Specifically, you will complete Part 1 (Information about you) of the I-693 and provide both the form and your DS-3025 (if you have it, proving your vaccination history) and any proof of required vaccinations that were completed prior to entering the US. If you do not have a copy of your DS-3025 you will need to provide sufficient evidence of your vaccination history to the Civil Surgeon (talk to the civil surgeon's office to discuss what vaccination records they accept as proof). If you do not have proof of your vaccination history the Civil Surgeon may insist on re-administering all the required vaccinations prior to completing the I-693. Once the Civil Surgeon has has verified that all required vaccinations have been performed, they will complete form I-693 Part 2 (the vaccination section) and Part 5 (the Civil Surgeon's Certification). They will then seal the form in an envelope and return it to you.

I-693, Medical Examination of Aliens Seeking Adjustment of Status.I-693, Medical Examination of Aliens Seeking Adjustment of Status. If you are a K-1, K-2, K-3 or K-4 visa holder the I-693 instructions state that you are not required to have another medical examination as long as your Form I-485 is filed within one year of your overseas medical examination. If you are missing any shots from your overseas medical a I-693 vaccination transcription is required to be completed by seeing a Civil Surgeon to have certain portions of the I-693 completed and have the Civil Surgeon certify the form (sealing the original in an envelope and giving you a copy)

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Check out this pinned link:

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/551080-immunizations-ds-3025-or-i-693/

[Tricked 33]

Oops, how did I miss that.

Thank you

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Oops, how did I miss that.

Thank you

And despite having everything, you could still get an unfair RFE depending on who looks at your case. See discussion from some who had medicals at Knightsbridge http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/606007-another-knightsbridge-aos-rfie-for-shots/

[TB44 7]

I entered the US on a K1 visa in January 2018.  After getting married and then submitting my application for AOS in February 2018,  receiving no RFEs, my AOS interview was scheduled for 17 September 2018.  You can imagine my horror when 3 days before my interview I received a letter from USCIS saying that I needed to bring a completed I-693 and I-130A to my interview!  I immediately made an infopass appointment, luckily for the next day, and received some clarity.  Two things:

1. According to the instructions on the I-693, if you file for AOS within one year of the date of your K1 visa medical exam (AND your K1 visa medical is satisfactory i.e. shows no signs of TB, syphillis or gonorrhea, and you have completed the necessary vaccinations as evidenced by your D-3025), you DO NOT need to undergo a new medical for AOS, and you DO NOT need to submit an I-693 for AOS.  You should simply submit the D-3025 with your AOS application, and that is all you need to do.  When I asked at my infopass appointment why I had been asked for the I-693 (3 days before my interview - FYI it's very difficult to get a visa medical done in 3 days!!), she said that it was probably an administrative error.  It likely that someone in the USCIS back office, when flicking through my file in advance of my interview, failed to see my K1 medical, or did not realise that I was exempt, and just absentmindedly ticked a box saying that I needed to bring this to my AOS interview.  In my AOS interview itself, I explained (very nicely!) to the USCIS officer that, as per the I-693 instructions, I should not need a new medical because my K1 visa medical was satisfactory, and I filed for AOS within one year of that medical.  I was also able to show him the D-3025 and the blood test results from my K1 medical, which I think helped.  In summary, he was very nice about it, and agreed that no new I-693 was required, and my AOS was granted  All that panic for nothing!
2. The I-130A form does not remotely apply to my case!  The form I-130 is for US Citizens seeking to bring their citizen spouses to the US, and the I-130A is for the spouse beneficiary to provide supplemental information.  So essentially it is the start of a completely different visa process to the I-129F/K1 visa process which we had completed!  The helpful USCIS lady at my infopass appointment was completely baffled as to why I had been asked for it (and she even muttered under her breath "I need to talk to the person who issued this letter to you, because that is NOT correct..."!).  And when I turned up to my AOS interview and asked why I had been asked to provide the I-130A, the USCIS officer just brushed it off and said "no, we definitely don't need that from you".  So, essentially, this was another mistake by an idiot in the USCIS back office, who has no idea how much stress they caused!

In short, if you get requests for forms shortly before your interview - don't panic!  You may need to provide them (in which case they will go ahead with the interview, but issue you an RFE, and your case will be held pending USCIS receipt of that further evidence requested), but in my case it was just a USCIS error!