Vaccinations

[Biliz 5]

A medical exam is required before the interview. The US medical community has a better system for record keeping than a lot of other countries. My question is has anyone had the experience of going to the medical exam with few records on what vaccinations they have had over the years? If so what was the process to complete that part of the exam?

Thanks

[Lemonslice 4,832]

6 minutes ago, Biliz said:

A medical exam is required before the interview. The US medical community has a better system for record keeping than a lot of other countries. My question is has anyone had the experience of going to the medical exam with few records on what vaccinations they have had over the years? If so what was the process to complete that part of the exam?

Thanks

Many countries have a centralized vaccination system, you might want to check if it is available in your country, and request your records.  Otherwise, one option is to request titer tests from your doctor. You can then bring the results to your medical exam. 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Lemonslice

[TBoneTX 45,260]

Another option is to visit your family doctor or clinic and ask for your vaccination records to be reconstructed.

If reconstruction happens, get them to print 3 copies* on clinic letterhead and get them stamped.

     *You'll be glad later that you got more than one copy

[Biliz 5]

Thanks

[Lemonslice 4,832]

8 minutes ago, Biliz said:

Thanks

When you're all done, please come back to let others know how you proceeded - always useful.  Best of luck!

[Foreignmiks 28]

We just went through this. They test to see what you are missing in most cases. They will offer to provide you with missing vaccinations or elect to be vaccinated at a later time.

 

[AndiB 677]

If they're unsure what you've had, you can just get them again. It won't cause any harm, just an expense.

 

Sadly missing vaccine records are not uncommon I'm finding

[Biliz 5]

Foreignmiks other than the Titers test what test did they use to detect which vaccinations you already had?

[Foreignmiks 28]

On 3/24/2023 at 3:28 PM, Biliz said:

Foreignmiks other than the Titers test what test did they use to detect which vaccinations you already had?

I'm not entirely sure as it was my fiancee that had the exam. We simply elected to not receive missing vaccinations during our medical. Our application was approved at interview.

[Biliz 5]

1 hour ago, Foreignmiks said:

I'm not entirely sure as it was my fiancee that had the exam. We simply elected to not receive missing vaccinations during our medical. Our application was approved at interview.

Thanks for the reply. The reason I ask is because I read that they will give you all the required ones but charge you more because they know you have to have their blessing with the medical.

[AndiB 677]

19 hours ago, Biliz said:

Thanks for the reply. The reason I ask is because I read that they will give you all the required ones but charge you more because they know you have to have their blessing with the medical.

The place that does the medial for London embassy has a price list for their vaccines, here they're about same price as private, some more, some less. See if you can find yours? Can maybe email them and request to if you want?

You can either get them before, if you can get any free may as well get em (doesn't matter if second time), get them at medical 
or you can get them in US but lord knows what cost is there off insurance. You won't need them until adjustment of status I think? Don't think K1 requires any vaccinations, would just mean a second medical in US after you have vaccinations.

[biscoito1r 73]

My fiance's mom had lost all of my fiance's vaccine records so she just took all of the vaccines again. No big deal when it comes to money as they were a lot cheaper than in the US. Also they checked her antibodies for chicken pox which showed that her antibodies were low so she had to take the vaccine. However when we looked at the prices we concluded that it would've been better to just take the vaccine right the way, so it is something for you to keep in mind, if they offer an antibody test just say you want the vaccine.

[TBoneTX 45,260]

On 3/29/2023 at 3:23 PM, AndiB said:

you can get them in US but lord knows what cost is there off insurance

Good point.  When Mrs. T-B. arrived, she needed tetanus and one other.

We went to our County Health Department, arriving when they opened before it became a zoo.

Each booster was $10.

They even hand-wrote the new boosters on her existing record that she'd brought from Ecuador, and stamped it.

Thus, everything was updated on a single document.

Consider checking into this option.

[AndiB 677]

On 4/1/2023 at 5:38 AM, TBoneTX said:

Good point.  When Mrs. T-B. arrived, she needed tetanus and one other.

We went to our County Health Department, arriving when they opened before it became a zoo.

Each booster was $10.

They even hand-wrote the new boosters on her existing record that she'd brought from Ecuador, and stamped it.

Thus, everything was updated on a single document.

Consider checking into this option.

Yeah I've lived in three countries, I'm unsure if I have ones on record from middle country but I've just been getting my UK ones added to my S. African ones. Just make sure you take a copy of your vaccinations for them to add to or put in one place! Sometimes they're a bit easy breezy about it and you need to specifically ask it get noted in your records. US does seem better at record keeping tho 😂

I just had a whole drama trying to get my COVID vaccination records cause apparently england -> scotland is a medical black hole 

[Stook 23]

On 3/29/2023 at 1:23 PM, AndiB said:

The place that does the medial for London embassy has a price list for their vaccines, here they're about same price as private, some more, some less. See if you can find yours? Can maybe email them and request to if you want?

You can either get them before, if you can get any free may as well get em (doesn't matter if second time), get them at medical 
or you can get them in US but lord knows what cost is there off insurance. You won't need them until adjustment of status I think? Don't think K1 requires any vaccinations, would just mean a second medical in US after you have vaccinations.

 

I believe you are correct. K1 is a nonimmigrant visa and I can only find vaccination requirements for Immigrant visas.