Vaccination documentation or lackthereof

[Horus 6]

I wanted to know if anyone here had experience with the vaccination section and not having access to vaccination records, and to if you might know as to whether or not the US embassies accept Titer tests as a substitute (a Titer test is a blood test that determines what antibodies are in your blood, thus what vaccinations you have already). Trying to tie up the last couple loose ends, and assuming we don't have any hiccups obtaining the rest of this medical stuff we should be able to make our interview date of may 18th without having to reschedule (after a tiresome week of driving all over the place to get paperwork our landlord forgot to file about our housing, then getting robbed by the ministry of justice worker who wanted an extra 75$ for "helping us" with the process (aka, doing his damn job).  

Cambodia's great until you've gotta deal with that 3rd world government where everyone wants a bribe from whitey. 

[PedroDaGr8 245]

6 hours ago, Horus said:

I wanted to know if anyone here had experience with the vaccination section and not having access to vaccination records, and to if you might know as to whether or not the US embassies accept Titer tests as a substitute (a Titer test is a blood test that determines what antibodies are in your blood, thus what vaccinations you have already). Trying to tie up the last couple loose ends, and assuming we don't have any hiccups obtaining the rest of this medical stuff we should be able to make our interview date of may 18th without having to reschedule (after a tiresome week of driving all over the place to get paperwork our landlord forgot to file about our housing, then getting robbed by the ministry of justice worker who wanted an extra 75$ for "helping us" with the process (aka, doing his damn job).  

Cambodia's great until you've gotta deal with that 3rd world government where everyone wants a bribe from whitey. 

I believe that my fiancee had a titer test done for a few of the vaccines (I believe the ones that having too many injections isn't good) and the civil surgeon signed off that she had been previously vaccinated. 

 

As for the bribery, it could be worse; you could be in Vietnam. When my fiancee wanted to get her police certificate they told her 5 weeks. She asked how much to get it quicker; they said she could get it in a week, for over ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS. We chose to wait the five weeks.

Edited April 26, 2017 by PedroDaGr8

[Horus 6]

17 hours ago, PedroDaGr8 said:

I believe that my fiancee had a titer test done for a few of the vaccines (I believe the ones that having too many injections isn't good) and the civil surgeon signed off that she had been previously vaccinated. 

 

As for the bribery, it could be worse; you could be in Vietnam. When my fiancee wanted to get her police certificate they told her 5 weeks. She asked how much to get it quicker; they said she could get it in a week, for over ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS. We chose to wait the five weeks.

That's good, and yea, the bribery thing is more annoying than anything else as it's something I already knew to expect. Here it pissed me off more though because he wasn't doing anything to warrant the money, just "hey give me 75$ extra for doing my job as usual, and it still won't be any faster." 

[KitchieA 0]

On April 26, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Horus said:

I wanted to know if anyone here had experience with the vaccination section and not having access to vaccination records, and to if you might know as to whether or not the US embassies accept Titer tests as a substitute (a Titer test is a blood test that determines what antibodies are in your blood, thus what vaccinations you have already). Trying to tie up the last couple loose ends, and assuming we don't have any hiccups obtaining the rest of this medical stuff we should be able to make our interview date of may 18th without having to reschedule (after a tiresome week of driving all over the place to get paperwork our landlord forgot to file about our housing, then getting robbed by the ministry of justice worker who wanted an extra 75$ for "helping us" with the process (aka, doing his damn job).  

Cambodia's great until you've gotta deal with that 3rd world government where everyone wants a bribe from whitey. 

We had our medicals, about 3 weeks ago, we didn't have any records of our previous vaccines. Husband and i were given flu vaccine and Tetanus vaccine,  another booster of Tetanus vaccine a month after.  

 

You are on point with most government officials here. We are asian expats but had to pay $150 to get our updated police certificate so it would be "expedited" (10 days) in time for our interview date. So a warning to foreigners  in Cambodia who needs police certificates in the future…be prepared to pay more and allow at least a month for them to prepare unless you need it sooner than you have to pay double to get the P.C. in 10 days. The police certificate is only valid for 3 months by the way so we had to deal with M.O.J. twice.

 

Goodluck!