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My main concern is with option 1 here. It’s so ridiculous that it doesn’t make sense. My wife has to take her medicine every morning before breakfast for 6 months. The public TB facility that she would need to go in person to and take her medication in front of doesn’t operate on the weekends. So even if we attempted option 1, following the expectations the dr described, it’s not possible because the public health facility doesn’t even operate daily. And how would they record / validate that she took the medicine? With the same TB card they already gave her and mark every day she comes in and took the medicine?? Because she already has that card and she marks it. It doesn’t make sense. If there’s anything that I’ve learned through this immigration process, it’s that it is not as rigid as people make it out to be. There are real humans behind the process, exceptions ARE made, TONS of mistakes are made, and all types of wrong info is constantly spread. People are afraid of the process and don’t question it, and it doesn’t help that immigration makes it difficult to contact them. A person from the consulate literally called my wife like 7 times back in July to schedule her interview. Like why would you not just send an email after the 2nd attempt?! I have had family members and family friends who were diagnosed with TB during immigration and they did not have to wait this long or deal with a process like the Dr described to proceed. We will request the doc to reach out to the consulate to see if we can arrange another way of proof for option 1, because it’s just not applicable.

Hi all. I really need some advice here. I posted this back in July. Context: My wife failed her medical examination more than 2 months ago due to TB diagnosis and was not allowed to interview. She did sputum test and we got the results today (~2 months later) that she is positive. However we knew she was positive already because immigration Dr suggested her to go get additional testing at the public health hospital where they treat for TB. My wife followed the advice immediately after doing sputum for immigration. She has been on TB treatment for 2 months now and has 4 months left (6 month treatment). She will be finished sometime in January 2025. Today after 2 months following sputum, Dr told my wife that the way forward is the following options: Option 1. Need to go to the tb facility every day for 6 month treatment and show that she is consuming her medication. They will have to log this. This is as if she is beginning her treatment just now. Dr Nezha said this option is NOT possible for my wife because she already started treatment and won’t be able to obtain the proof of 2 months already. On top of this, this is a an absurd requirement that I have a tough time believing Consulate requires this. My wife has a job, it is not feasible to commute to the tb facility every MORNING for 6 months to show she is consuming her medication. The TB facility gave my wife a TB treatment card to track her progress. She’s kept track of it all and attended her appointments with the public TB facility. Option 2. After my wife finishes her 6 months of medication in January, she will do the sputum test again, wait 2 months for results, and then wait ONE YEAR before she can proceed again with immigration. Has anyone been thru this process before?? We could really use some advice. We already expedited at USCIS level and at NVC to get the embassy to schedule interview. We were granted expedite at both levels. We CANNOT wait another year. What is the best course of action here?

Unfortunately this was not the case for us . My wife tried to attend the interview and she was told her name was not on the list for interviewees that day. She is going thru sputum testing and we will have to wait for medical clearance before she can interview again. We have not heard any updates from the embassy or next steps. I'm curious if she tests positive for TB if she can get scheduled for an interview 6 months out, as 4-6 months is usually how long it takes to get treated for TB. She is seeing a specialist on the side, as per recommendation from the doctor at the medical facility. There, she got a CT and blood test done for TB. She will provide the report to the immigration doctor and go from there.

Hi all, I'm an American citizen sponsoring my Moroccan wife's CR-1 visa. We are an expedited case. My wife received a call on Jun 21, 2024 from someone at the US Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco. On the phone, they set up an interview with her for Jul 2, 2024. Her medical exam was scheduled 4 days prior to her interview, on June 28th. We received no official interview letter or email notice regarding this, and she was told that because the case was expedited we would not be going thru conventional means. Our account on ustraveldocs is also not updated to reflect the interview date. Call from Consulate June 21 --> Medical Exam Jun 28th --> Interview July 2nd This morning, my wife received a called from the medical facility where she did her medical exam and they asked her to come to the clinic to discuss her results. Her x-ray shows potential tuberculosis concerns. The doc put in a lab order for the sputum test which requires an 8 week window for final results. The doctor recommended her to visit a specialist. My wife visited a specialist earlier this afternoon and the specialist was skeptical about her having TB and re-did the x-rays and validated the imaging she got from the prior clinic. My wife is completely asymptomatic. Her specialist believes that the sputum test will not be beneficial because my wife does not feel any symptoms to even do a proper sputum test (doesn't have any phlegm to cough up). She also got her blood drawn and we will hear results on that on Wednesday (in 2 days) this week. The assistant at the medical clinic where my wife did her medical exam on Jun 28th told her that her interview is cancelled. However, my wife did not receive any call from the consulate saying her interview is cancelled. My wife called the consulate and informed them that her medical exam required further testing and would not be complete (but did not mention sputum testing for TB) and the person who picked up told her she should show up to her appointment tomorrow and that because it is peak season, it will be difficult to get another appointment soon. So my wife will be going to her interview tomorrow. We do not know if it is cancelled. I am skeptical about what's being communicated between the medical facility and the consulate. If the appointment is cancelled, my wife will go and perform the mandatory sputum test anyways. I don't know how they will get a real test done with her being asymptomatic, so we are relying on her specialist for the real evaluation. We don't know where to go from here if her appointment is cancelled due to there being no paper/email trail about her appointment in the first place. Is any familiar with this process?