I tried searching here on how to bring our USC child's vaccination records to the U.S. and making them official for admission into schools there, but I couldn't find anything.
Background:
- I'm a USC and my wife is a new LPR. She already got her IR1 visa stamped into her passport.
- We're scheduled to arrive in the U.S. in a week.
- We have a daughter together. Filed a CRBA and thus she is a USC.
- We did her vaccinations here in Vietnam and have a nice record of every shot. Has all the names of vaccines, injection dates, doctor stamps, etc.
- We followed her vaccination schedule most closely to the one recommended by WHO.
We're going to take her vaccination record with us, but how do we make it official in the U.S.?
Will the Vietnamese records itself suffice?
Or do we take them to a new pediatrician and explain that we need to make the record official and recognized by the U.S. school systems?
Could we somehow find a blank yellow card and write the vaccinations in ourselves, and have a doctor review it, then sign / stamp it?
I'm sure we're not the first ones to go through this, so I'd love to understand how this process is usually done.