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Does USCIS require the Covid shot for the medical? Do we have to show that we took the Covid shot among other required shots?

 

I haven’t done the medical, I don’t know what tests I have to do or what shots that they require us to take.

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1 hour ago, Mubja said:

Does USCIS require the Covid shot for the medical? Do we have to show that we took the Covid shot among other required shots?

 

I haven’t done the medical, I don’t know what tests I have to do or what shots that they require us to take.

Hi Mubja,

Beside Covid 19 vaccine, the form I-693 requires a lot of vaccines such as Tdap, Varivax etc

Please refer this link https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-693instr.pdf to have more information. 

 

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1 hour ago, SJLN said:

Hi Mubja,

Beside Covid 19 vaccine, the form I-693 requires a lot of vaccines such as Tdap, Varivax etc

Please refer this link https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/forms/i-693instr.pdf to have more information. 

 

I’ve got all the vaccines, but do they now require the Covid vaccine? And how many shots of Covid vaccine? Since that we are only “fully vaccinated” if we take 3 shots of COVID vaccine 

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16 hours ago, VolksWagon99 said:

Yes but not w/ pkg. Right? Wondering why? I guess it caused delay for your EAD

I did apply with packages. Now a days ead renewal for pending I-485 takes 6 months to 12 months. I know it’s crazy but it is what it is. Uscis will do what they wanna do, when they wanna do it!

 

16 hours ago, VolksWagon99 said:

Yes but not w/ pkg. Right? Wondering why? I guess it caused delay for your EAD

 

16 hours ago, VolksWagon99 said:

Yes but not w/ pkg. Right? Wondering why? I guess it caused delay for your EAD

 

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As have been reading on the USCIS website, it seems that the medical is required when someone submits a AOS i485?
 

Is it required for the i360? or before I hear a decision on i360?

 

 

I did not submit an i485

 

I just want to make sure I have everything ready because I don’t know how long they will give me to finish working on the medical since it might take me a little long to do it overseas. 

 

sorry for asking too many questions, I’m still trying to understand this process 

 

thanks in advance 

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@Stillwinning!!!😊 @sandranj I want to sure about this , can my congressperson help me request for the copy of my interview date so I dnt miss it on both sides,I heard it somewhere that the Congress person could help you get the copy of the interview date so you dnt miss your interview date as well as the the stuffs I need to get done before the interview like doing of my medical as well i693..please I would like to know if this can be gotten as well by my Congress person ..sometimes all these lawyers are not reliable ..

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11 hours ago, i-need-help-pls said:

Paid.

if you paid for i-485 then you do not have to pay for renewal of c09 and ap. 

 

I am not sure why you send the check?

2 hours ago, Blunt said:

@Stillwinning!!!😊 @sandranj I want to sure about this , can my congressperson help me request for the copy of my interview date so I dnt miss it on both sides,I heard it somewhere that the Congress person could help you get the copy of the interview date so you dnt miss your interview date as well as the the stuffs I need to get done before the interview like doing of my medical as well i693..please I would like to know if this can be gotten as well by my Congress person ..sometimes all these lawyers are not reliable ..

Yes they can help you to get it.

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9 hours ago, Mubja said:

As have been reading on the USCIS website, it seems that the medical is required when someone submits a AOS i485?
 

Is it required for the i360? or before I hear a decision on i360?

 

 

I did not submit an i485

 

I just want to make sure I have everything ready because I don’t know how long they will give me to finish working on the medical since it might take me a little long to do it overseas. 

 

sorry for asking too many questions, I’m still trying to understand this process 

 

thanks in advance 

medical exam report is not required for I360, its for I485 only. Even for I485, if medical report is not sent with initial i485 packet, they will send Request for evidence for sending medicals after I360 is approved (in case they want to approve you without an interview), or else they send I485 interview notice and inform you in writing to bring medicals with you to the interview.  

Divorced US citizen spouse in December 2017. 

Filed I-360 on Nov 12, 2019

Filed I485/ C31 EAD / AP in Feb 2020 (Stupid lawyer filed C31 instead of C9, and I didnt know EAD codes, didnt know about this VJ forum either)

On H1b status since 2014, H1b 6 years expired in May 2020. Out of status / Period of authorized stay since then. 

Amended EAD petition to C9 and filed expedite request for same in mid-may 2020. 

C9 EAD approved June 4, 2020. 

Biometrics done in Oct 2020. 

I485 case transferred to NBC for "faster processing" on September 30, 2020

Filed C9 EAD / AP Renewal petition in February 2021. 

Initial Advance Parole (from Feb 2020 application) approved in June 2021. 

C31 EAD production update - Nov 1st, 2021. 

C31 card delivered to attorney's office on Nov 8, 2021. 

I-360 case approved status update - Nov 22, 2021. 

No RFE throughout.  

Senator's office confirmed via congressional inquiry that the St. Louis office has received the I485 file and is currently awaiting interview scheduling - March 7, 2022

C9 EAD renewal card production case update - July 20, 2022 (took them just 17 months to process)

C9 EAD / AP renewal approval case update on both cases on July 21, 2022.

Combo card delivered to attorney's office on July 27, 2022

Medical exam RFE Drama: Second congressional inquiry sent in early July 2022 for I485. USCIS responded on 8/12/22 to this congressional inquiry that they issued an RFE on 5/24/22 and were waiting for my response. My lawyer denied receiving RFE and there was no such update on online USCIS portal. Lawyer's old firm was safe mailing address on my case. Lawyer changed firms a year after I hired her but did not change mailing address for my case with USCIS, she said she had a deal with her old firm to forward all her clients' mail to her new firm. Old firm denied receiving RFE. Sent another congressional inquiry requesting copy of RFE on 8/17/22. I also got medical exam done on 8/17/22 as I assumed RFE was for medical exam (thanks for this forum's insights.) Yelled at lawyer and threatened her with dire consequences. On 8/18/22 my lawyer's old firm finally found scanned copy of RFE in their "archived scans" (whatever the duck that is) and emailed it to me. It was indeed RFE requesting medical exam. On 8/20/22 I mailed medicals sealed packet with copy of RFE to St. Louis field office. Also sent a notarized letter with the packet - updating safe mailing address to my home address and informing St. Louis field office that I fired my lawyer. Sent similar letter to Vermont Service Center on the same date. 

8/23/22 - Fedex confirmed delivery of medicals packet to St. Louis Field Office. 

8/26/22: Case update on I485: New Card Is Being Produced

8/29/22:  On August 29, 2022, we approved your Form I485, APPLICATION TO REGISTER PERMANENT RESIDENCE OR ADJUST STATUS

9/3/22 green card delivered to attorney's office (they didn't change safe mailing address despite my written requests to FO AND VSC.) 

9/6/22 VSC returned AR11 and my letter requesting safe mailing address change. In their letter they said something to the effect of "you can do this online, we wont do it via snail mail request etc." Just posting as an FYI, its weird. Also received I485 approval notice on the same date. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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10 hours ago, Mubja said:

As have been reading on the USCIS website, it seems that the medical is required when someone submits a AOS i485?
 

Is it required for the i360? or before I hear a decision on i360?

Because

 

I did not submit an i485

 

I just want to make sure I have everything ready because I don’t know how long they will give me to finish working on the medical since it might take me a little long to do it overseas. 

 

sorry for asking too many questions, I’m still trying to understand this process 

 

thanks in advance 

Because you are overseas doing an embassy interview, it will be through the embassy that you do your medical.  However, you will still need to comply with current vaccination requirements.  

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Thank you for responding, I did not submit a 485 but i probably have to take it before the visa interview at the embassy.

 

vaccination Q:

How many shots of the Covid vaccine is required for the medical report? Just one or 3? 
 

Did you all take one shot or 3 shots of Covid vaccine to complete your medical? Since 3 shots is considered fully vaccinated 

 

is the Covid vaccine even a requirement on the vaccination list?

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It is Sunday -- time for our Official Weekly VAWA-Thread Joke (I like the second one):

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CHAMPIONSHIP INSULTS

 

"She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."

   -- Dorothy Parker about Katharine Hepburn's acting

 

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."

   -- J.D. Salinger

 

"My dear, you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly."

   -- Winston Churchill to Lady Astor, first female member of Parliament, after she called him "disgustingly drunk."

 

"I like your opera.  I think I will set it to music."

   -- Ludwig van Beethoven, slapping another composer to the curb

 

"I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected."

   -- Comedian Jon Stewart

 

"If your brains were dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."

   -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

 

"She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them."

   -- Sir John Gielgud on Casablanca star Ingrid Bergman

 

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork."

   -- Mark Twain

 

"What problems do you have, apart from being blind, unemployed, and a moron?"

   -- Tennis star John McEnroe, to a Wimbledon spectator

 

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."

   -- Actress Mae West, on a man she didn't like

 

"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you.  He really is an idiot."

   -- Groucho Marx

 

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."

   -- Abraham Lincoln, on one of his political opponents

 

"Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

   -- Winston Churchill, to Lady Astor after she said that if she were married to him, she'd have poisoned his coffee

:P 

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

 
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