My Fiancee does not have a vaccination card that lists all her past vaccinations. Her physical exam is Dec 11. After the results of the blood tests to determine what vaccines she's had in the past and after she receives the required shots, will the Doctor give her a Vaccination card? Or is this something she needs to request afterwards?

Thanks

The place where she goes take her shots she can ask for a vaccination card. After she shows the doctor she took all the shots he/she asked her to, the doctor will include on her medical all the vaccines she has had and one copy she will keep, the other will be in the sealed medical exam that she has to take with her to the Consulate on her interview date.
Is she requesting for a blood test to see which vaccines she has had? I didn't take that test (the doctor in Curitiba didn't give me that option) and I had to take all the vaccines I couldn't prove i've had and I knew I've had because of that. If she can take the test that will tell which ones she needs that will be great, so she doesn't have to waste money or time or be in pain just because she couldn't prove she took the shots.
I hope it helps.

Thanks nessaandcharles,

When she made the appointment, they asked if she had a vaccination record. When she said "No", they told her they'd be using blood tests to determine which vaccinations she had. I just called her a few minutes ago and told her to remember to get a vaccination card from her Doctor! We'll need it at Adjustment of Status and maybe beyond.

joeyjoey

Joey,

the doctor will only give her the statement after she shows she had the vaccinations required. The tetanus shot is valid for 10 years, so is the yellow fever one - she can get those for free at any posto de saude. If she doesn't take those here, and it's been more than 10 years after her last shot, she'll have to take them after arriving in the US.
She has to pay for the influenza shot. People under 65 usually don't take that vaccine here.

She'll be receiving Tetanus and yellow fever tomorrow tat the examination. The I-693A is the document that I want her to get from the Doctor. After the process, and they discover the vaccinations she had before, and they give her the tetnaus and yellow fever, she will get the I-693A Vaccination Record, correct?

Vaccination requirements varies depending on age and other factors. I didn't have my vaccination sheet either, so I took all the shots I could for free (tetanus+diphteria, yellow fever and hepatitis) even before we got NOA1.
If she or the doctor has the results from the blood test, I don't see why she wouldn't get her vaccination record. Just remember to tell her to ask the doctor for a translated copy - I read somewhere that some doctors just don't give you a copy (and it IS her right as a costumer). I'm also thinking about asking the doctor when I have my medical to give me a copy of their statement (sealed if necessary) so I can provide it at AOS (probably me being way over OCD and wanting to overkill...I'm almost sure they use the one from our K1 for that, but...)

To my knowledge yellow fever is not required for the visa and doctors in the foreign
country at the medical can not give out the I-693A. She has to ask for a
DS-3025 vaccination worksheet. Then take this to a civil surgeon here who
will transfer the info to I-693A. Double check this but I think I am correct.

As far as I know the doctor should tell her which vaccines she needs, according to her age. I took some of them before I went to the medical, according to the package 3. When I called to make the medical appointment his secretary told me which ones I should have. I even took Influenza, which the doctor told me later wasn't necessary.

I'd advise her to try and get all the ones that she needs at the Posto de Saúde in Brazil, because they are for free. I have to finish taking some here (Hepatitis B and Tetanus) and I heard they are quite expensive.

Make sure that she does get a copy of the vaccination record so you won't have to go through the trouble of civil surgeons for the AOS charging hundreds of dollars.

Sorry for jumping on here
where did you girls get the vaccination record translated ?

Well, my doctor didn't give me a copy of the vaccination records.

And he doesn't have one.

I heard USCIS don't ask for a new medical examination when you submit the form for AOS if it's less than 1 year old.

They ask for the vac. records.

Some people told me if we took the vaccinations in Brazil and the records are inside the packet we submit when applying for the K1, we don't need to submit that either.

I just want to avoid spending hundreds of dollars at CS. But I also want to avoid an RFE.

What do you guys KNOW about that?

Lisz, since I got my copy from the doctor I won't need translations of my records, so I can't help you there.

hummm ok.. thanks

Because I got my records but they are not in English

When I went to take my two last shots here I took my brazilian records with me to show the dates and they could understand just fine but then again, I'm in PR so Spanish is closer to Portuguese.

Lis,

posso estar redondamente enganada, mas vale a pena tentar. Pra todos os outros documentos do processo pra K1, vc pode pedir para alguém traduzir os documentos pra vc e fazer uma carta dizendo que o "tradutor" é capaz de fazer tal tradução (tem modelos dela aqui no VJ).
Talves vc encontre alguém que possa fazer isso pra vc em uma faculdade que tenha cadeira de linguas latinas, ou ainda algum estudante/estagiário/residente/pós de medicina que fale português...

BTW, the names of thoses shots in english aren't all that different from the ones in portuguese...If you find a doctor with enough good will, they'll know what it is all about.

estava pensando... sera que eu posso pedir para o meu medico no Brasil ? o medico que fez o meu exame para a entrevista, claro...

LiszyandKenny

If you have a Consulate in your city, they will make a certified translation for you. You can also contact the nearest Consulate and make arrangements to send a copy of the doc to the Embassy (here in the US) for translation and return to you.

Joeyjoey

I would like to add that at Instituto H. Pardini (a medical laboratory in Brasil), we paid R$57 for the Hepatitis B vaccine, and $R39 for the Influenza vaccine. These prices are as of Jan 12 2007

The hepatitis B vaccine is given for free in Postos de Saúde.

It's true (about the posto). My fiance paid nothing for vaccines, blood tests, or the x-ray. But I think we were just lucky - at least these are done with too. One less thing to check off on the list ::

I also didn't pay anything for my vaccines....but the blood tests and X-ray I had to pay. I actually got a discount at Sergio Franco because of my husband's health insurance (but I am a dependent). So I paid about R$ 60 for both blood tests.

We found that Hepatitis B was not available at our local posto de saude, and they would only give the influenza vaccine to the elderly. We had no choice but to pay. I am wondering about pertussis (coqueluche). Our posto said that it is only given to those under 19. Anyone know which vaccines a healthy 24 year old woman doesn't need?

Also, apparently in Belo Horizonte the blood tests and x-ray are included in the $100 price tag.

You're lucky then if the x-ray and blood test are for free. I had to pay for them ( X-Ray R$ 35,00 and Blood Test R$ 56,00) besides having to pay the $ 100.00 to the doctor. I also had to pay for a few vaccines I couldn't find for free (Influenza shot R$ 30,00 (twice so R$ 60.00), Varicella shot R$ 80,00 (twice again so 160.00) )
I'm no doctor, but one thing I know is that if she takes a shot because her doctor said so (and yes if her doctor says so she'll have to take them) she won't get a disease or die because of it, it might not have the proper effect but it won't hurt.