maybe a stupid question - regarding vaccination stuff

[sarah&rob 1]

My fiance & I will be getting married at the end of the month and I'm trying to get all the AOS forms filled out so we can send them in ASAP once we get back from Vegas.

In reading the guide for AOS, what is the I-693 form? (or the I-693A?)

My fiance had his medical the same day as his interview back in June & I don't recall them ever giving him a form back when we left. The Knightsbridge doctors needed more info from his GP, so when we got back from London to his town, he went straight to his GP and they sent out the extra info needed the next day. All they gave him was a copy of what they'd sent to the Knightsbridge docs.

He had all his vaccines done and got the paperwork from his GP stating he had chicken pox when he was a child.

I don't want him to have to unnecessarily have to go through more vaccines & blood work.

Hopefully someone here can fill me in on this... I'm at work now so I can't look and see what papers he has in the folder we made up for his medical exam while in the UK, but will do so when I get home.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help.

[payxibka 10,048]

Do you have records of him having received all required vaccinations? Either from GP or immigration medical (DS-3025)? If so, youcan have a Civil Surgeon transcribe the information on to the I-693 Part II Item 5

FWIW, the I-693A is now obsolete (as of May 2008)

Edited October 15, 2008 by payxibka

[himher 634]

At AOS my wife had the same thing, basically a vaccination card from her GP in her home country. We took it to a local civil surgeon who (for $50, cash only, the jerk-immigration is a RACKET) transferred it to the official USCIS vaccination supplemental form and gave us the supplemental form in a sealed envelope. We attached the sealed envelope to the rest of the I-485 package and sent it in.

When we went to AOS interview the interviewer had both the medical data (turned in at POE) from the original medical evaluation for the embassy interview and the vaccination supplemental form that we sent in. The chicken pox vaccine was not checked on the supplemental form, so he went to the embassy medical evaluation where the civil surgeon there had checked it off that she had chicken pox in early childhood (I think it was age 3 or 4). He made a note on the supplemental form where that vaccine was supposed to have been checked and approved our I485.

Hope that helps and good luck.

[sarah&rob 1]

At AOS my wife had the same thing, basically a vaccination card from her GP in her home country. We took it to a local civil surgeon who (for $50, cash only, the jerk-immigration is a RACKET) transferred it to the official USCIS vaccination supplemental form and gave us the supplemental form in a sealed envelope. We attached the sealed envelope to the rest of the I-485 package and sent it in.

When we went to AOS interview the interviewer had both the medical data (turned in at POE) from the original medical evaluation for the embassy interview and the vaccination supplemental form that we sent in. The chicken pox vaccine was not checked on the supplemental form, so he went to the embassy medical evaluation where the civil surgeon there had checked it off that she had chicken pox in early childhood (I think it was age 3 or 4). He made a note on the supplemental form where that vaccine was supposed to have been checked and approved our I485.

Hope that helps and good luck.

thank you, that eases my mind a bit.

Do you have records of him having received all required vaccinations? Either from GP or immigration medical (DS-3025)? If so, youcan have a Civil Surgeon transcribe the information on to the I-693 Part II Item 5

FWIW, the I-693A is now obsolete (as of May 2008)

I will look and double check all the stuff from the medical that we saved in a folder when i get home from work, though i can't recall ever seeing anything that said DS-3025 on it

[Shannon and David 0]

Hi!

Here's some info for you in the process.

Here's the USCIS document on the new vaccine/TB skin test requirements. Depending on when the medical was done, you may or may not need something new...

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...0004718190aRCRD

Here are the impt dates from that website.

Date of Medical Exam

Do I have to submit the revised Form I-693?

Does the medical exam have to be done in accordance with the new TB requirements?

Do I have to receive the new vaccines (if age appropriate?)

Before June 1, 2008

No

No

No

June 1 – July 31, 2008

Yes Edition dates 4/2/08 and 6/5/08 are acceptable

Yes

No

On or after Aug. 1, 2008

Yes - must submit Edition date 6/5/08

Yes

Yes

Here are the instructions from the I-485, page 4 in regards to the medical.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485instr.pdf

Do not let the doctor try to get you to do more than you need, a new medical is not needed. It says so clearly in the instructions for the I-693. David and I paid $25 for the transcription. Call around to different Civil Surgeons or use Dr. Arnold on the first page of the I-693 info (see link below).

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=101202

Go with copies of all the printed documents. The I-693 instructions and the print out of the website that I gave you above.

Here are the I-693 instructions.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/I-693instr.pdf