seeing Civil Surgeon to complete Vaccinations for AOS?

[Emeryx 38]

When i had my medical i told them i didn't know if i'd had chicken pox or not so she put down i needed to have the vaccination for it when i'm state side for my AOS. 

 

How do i go about this? Do i see any doctor or does it have to be a Civil Surgeon?

Also will they know i only need a certain vaccination and won't charge me to do a full medical again?

Do i need to get it done before i file for AOS or can i get it done after?

 

Sorry for so many questions, any information is so helpful if anybody has had to do something similar! I'm ready to file for AOS any time now, we got married April 15th!! 

[Loren Y 2,756]

I am currently getting my fiancee all her vaccinations done before the interview and medical that is about 6 months away now, and she is one step away from every vaccination known to man I think. Vaccinations over here in the US a pretty pricey unless you can get your insurance to cover it. My fiancee didn't know if she had chicken pox or not and she is 39. What we did was a blood test for the presence of the vaccine in her blood ( If you have had chicken pox it will show up). You may want to consider a blood test to see if you already have the antibodies in your blood. You will have to research it, but I can almost guarantee the blood work will be less expensive than the vaccine if you have to pay out of pocket. Then you can take the blood test results to a civil surgeon on the approved list and have him sign off on your vaccination form. This way you can hopefully avoid a full exam to the tune of 3-4 hundred dollars. We kept the blood test results to show the doctor when she goes for her medical, along with all the other vaccination records, but the blood test saved me some money by being able to skip 2 of the required vaccinations because she had antibodies for them already. Just something for you to consider as I am very cheap when it comes to some things and what they charge for vaccinations in the US is robbery in my book. I went to a travel clinic here in Las Vegas to get some odd vaccines for some upcoming travel, and they were going to cost over 1300.00 to get because my insurance wouldn't cover them. When I was just in Thailand visiting my fiancee we went to start the vaccines, and while I was there I asked about the ones I wanted to get at the Red cross in Thailand, I got them done out the door for 60 bucks! Then I added a few more because it was so cheap. My arms were sore for a day or two, but I got about 2700.00 worth of vaccines for under 100 bucks.

[Loren Y 2,756]

Chickenpox series (Varicella)1 ages 7+	$149.99 per dose, 2 dose series
Flu (Fluarix) ages 3+2	$39.99 per dose3
Flu (Fluvirin) ages 4+2	$31.99 per dose3
Flu (Fluzone High-Dose) ages 65+2	$59.99 per dose3
Hepatitis A series (pediatric/adolescent) ages 7-18	$65.99 per dose, 2 dose series
Hepatitis A series (adult) ages 19+	$113.99 per dose, 2 dose series
Hepatitis B series (pediatric/adolescent) ages 7-18	$59.99 per dose, 3 dose series
Hepatitis B series (adult) ages 19+	$89.99 per dose, 3 dose series
Human Papillomavirus series (HPV) ages 9-26	Gardasil 9 $249.99 1st dose $214.99 2nd and 3rd dose
Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) ages 7+	$99.99 per dose
Meningitis (Meningococcal) ages 11-55	$133.99 per dose
Meningitis B series ages 10-25	$175.99 per dose
Pneumonia (Pneumococcal) - Pneumovax ages 65+, ages 19-64 who smoke or have asthma, ages 7+ with long-term health conditions	$125.99 per dose
Pneumonia (Pneumococcal) — Prevnar 13	$229.99 per dose
Shingles (Shingrix) ages 50+	$169.99 per dose4
Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis/Whooping Cough (Tdap) ages 10+	$63.99 per dose
Tetanus & Diphtheria (Td) ages 7+	$54.99 per dose

[Loren Y 2,756]

Above is a cash price list from my local Walgreen pharmacy, you can see how they can get expensive. Your chicken pox vaccine is going to cost you around 300.00 because it is a 2 dose vaccination. I know when all said and done I will only be out about 145.00 for my fiancee vaccinations and she got everything on this list except a few ones that only children need. She just completed her 2nd round of shots, and in September will finish up the last series.

 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

6 minutes ago, Loren Y said:

Above is a cash price list from my local Walgreen pharmacy, you can see how they can get expensive. Your chicken pox vaccine is going to cost you around 300.00 because it is a 2 dose vaccination. I know when all said and done I will only be out about 145.00 for my fiancee vaccinations and she got everything on this list except a few ones that only children need. She just completed her 2nd round of shots, and in September will finish up the last series.

 

There are only four shots on the adult list. One of them is flu which is seasonal.  

[Wuozopo 4,293]

55 minutes ago, Emeryx said:

How do i go about this? Do i see any doctor or does it have to be a Civil Surgeon?

Any doctor, Walgreens, or a health department can give them, but a Civil Surgeon is the only one who can fill out the form I-693 and certify you have had them. Take your proof from Knightsbridge, your U.K. Doctor or a stateside doctor so the civil surgeon can put them all on the one form. Also you do not need all doses in a series if you get the first one right before the exam. They waive the others on the grounds of "insufficient interval" because there is a waiting period between shots. They do not make you hold up your immigrations to wait out the interval. 

 

55 minutes ago, Emeryx said:

Also will they know i only need a certain vaccination and won't charge me to do a full medical again?

Many will not so call around and ask first and ask the price and if they will do only your shot record. Shame you didn't just say you had chickenpox and you'd be done. I would say most are going to tell you that you need a full medical again. You do not, but it is hard to convince most of that. 

 

55 minutes ago, Emeryx said:

Do i need to get it done before i file for AOS or can i get it done after?

 

 

Nope. Read this page. See Special Instructions toward the bottom. https://www.uscis.gov/i-693

Edited April 22, 2018 by Wuozopo

[Loren Y 2,756]

19 minutes ago, Wuozopo said:

There are only four shots on the adult list. One of them is flu which is seasonal.  

I figured better to get everything possible, and the price was right, she got Flu shot, Tdap, MMR, Hep A and B, and she had the blood test done for the Chicken pox ( Saved me about 20 bucks).  I just totaled up her shots, would have cost here just shy of 700 bucks, over 1000 if she needed the chicken pox vaccine, and got them all done complete for under 150. Another good point, you said you can get just the first shot done to apply, but will they check when you ROC that you completed the vaccinations?

[Wuozopo 4,293]

8 hours ago, Loren Y said:

. Another good point, you said you can get just the first shot done to apply, but will they check when you ROC that you completed the vaccinations

All you have to do for ROC is prove you are still married and living together and commingling finances or even if divorced that you did those things while the marriage lasted. There is no checking for medical things or that you still earn above 125% of the poverty level.

 

Or did you mean when you adjust status AOS right after marriage?

 

Anyway, once a shot is waived at a medical exam because it is medically inappropriate to give another dose too close to the first dose, it is waived forever. That especially works for spouse visas. With a K1, if you skipped one shot like the OP in this thread and had to go to a civil surgeon later in the US, then your shots would be evaluated according to the new medical date. SO if the four week interval time to get a second MMR  had passed by the NEW medical date, the civil surgeon would say you need dose two. The key is get complete or waived on the day of the visa exam so you get signed off and don't have to go to a civil surgeon in the US which resets the date. 

 

 

[Loren Y 2,756]

1 hour ago, Wuozopo said:

All you have to do for ROC is prove you are still married and living together and commingling finances or even if divorced that you did those things while the marriage lasted. There is no checking for medical things or that you still earn above 125% of the poverty level.

 

Or did you mean when you adjust status AOS right after marriage?

 

Anyway, once a shot is waived at a medical exam because it is medically inappropriate to give another dose too close to the first dose, it is waived forever. That especially works for spouse visas. With a K1, if you skipped one shot like the OP in this thread and had to go to a civil surgeon later in the US, then your shots would be evaluated according to the new medical date. SO if the four week interval time to get a second MMR  had passed by the NEW medical date, the civil surgeon would say you need dose two. The key is get complete or waived on the day of the visa exam so you get signed off and don't have to go to a civil surgeon in the US which resets the date. 

 

 

Excellent, that makes sense. There's a way to save some money. Good information to know.

[Boiler 46,316]

Good example of why it is so important to get these things sorted prior to your move.

[Emeryx 38]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

Good example of why it is so important to get these things sorted prior to your move.

 i just didn't want to lie and say i've had chicken pox when i didn't know if i had. I guess i didn't want anything back firing on me and i can't get a shot for chicken pox in the UK anyway so it still would of come down to having it state side and going this route. 

[Boiler 46,316]

I thought everybody got it, but you be tested to see.

[Loren Y 2,756]

2 hours ago, Boiler said:

Good example of why it is so important to get these things sorted prior to your move.

That is exactly why I had my fiancee load up on everything. Even some vaccinations that were not required just due to the cost savings. And she will have all the series completed in September a few weeks til a month before her medical. Before the interview or even the visa. Worst case she doesn't get the visa she will have more vaccinations than she will ever need.