We avoided the RFE for medical exam (AOS after K-1)

[limejello 0]

I'm not sure if this helped us or not, but we included a letter in our AOS packet stating that my fiance/husband had already received his medical exam. We did this because we heard that so many people were getting RFE's for medical exams even though they had already had one for the K-1 process. We included the letter in the packet with the vaccination supplement envelope paperclipped behind it. As I said, maybe this helped us avoid the RFE so maybe it can be of use to someone else who is preparing for this process.

This is the text of the letter that we included in our packet:

To Whom it May Concern,

I am including only the vaccination supplement in accordance with the requirements for Adjustment of Status from a K-1 visa, as per USCIS form I-485 instructions as follows:

8. Fiance(e)s

If you are a K-1 finace(e) or K-2 dependent who had a medical examination within the last year as required for the nonimmigrant fiance(e) visa, you only need to submit a vaccination supplement, not the entire medical report. You may include the vaccination supplement with your form I-485.

I received my full medical examination required for the K-1 visa on (date of medical exam). I gave the results of the medical exam in a sealed envelope to the consular officer on the day of my interview. The results were then placed in another sealed envelope, which was given to the immigration officers at my point of entry at (POE location).

Regards,

(signed name)

(printed name)

Edited October 2, 2009 by limejello

[Inky 1,110]

Did it also avoid the request for the 693 form at the interview?

[wasabi 4]

You have to go to a Certified US civil surgeon with that envelope and get them to stamp it. Just sending it yourself isn't enough.

[limejello 0]

We didn't have an interview, our case was transferred to CSC and approved from there. We DID go to a USCIS civil surgeon who filled out the vaccination supplement and put in in a sealed envelope and signed over the seal. That's the envelope that I was referring to that was paperclipped to the back of the letter.

[Inky 1,110]

thats what you are supposed to do of course you didnt get an rfe for it cus you sent it in.

[limejello 0]

I must not have made myself very clear. For those who are going through the AOS process after the K-1 they are supposed to send in a vaccination supplement because they already did the medical exam. There are quite a few people who did just that (sent in the vaccination supplement assuming that they did not need to send in the medical exam form), but were STILL RECEIVING RFEs for the ENTIRE medical exam, although they followed the instructions exactly. My post is intended to let people know what we did (write a letter stating the obvious, that he had already done the medical exam), and state the results (we did not get an RFE for the medical exam). Thus, I was trying to help/be of assistance to other people. I hope this has cleared up any confusion that might have originated from my first two posts.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

A lot of time people are receiving RFEs for the entire medical exam because USCIS has lost the medical exam - it has nothing to do with the applicants and everything to do with USCIS sloppiness.

[STEPHnRIA 2]

We also wrote them a letter stating (or making them know) that as K1, I had my medical prior to coming here and that I gave it to the poe officer... they still sent me RFE... my son and I had to do it again. Five days after sending the medical, we got our greencard in the mail.

[Shub 78]

I must not have made myself very clear. For those who are going through the AOS process after the K-1 they are supposed to send in a vaccination supplement because they already did the medical exam. There are quite a few people who did just that (sent in the vaccination supplement assuming that they did not need to send in the medical exam form), but were STILL RECEIVING RFEs for the ENTIRE medical exam, although they followed the instructions exactly. My post is intended to let people know what we did (write a letter stating the obvious, that he had already done the medical exam), and state the results (we did not get an RFE for the medical exam). Thus, I was trying to help/be of assistance to other people. I hope this has cleared up any confusion that might have originated from my first two posts.

That exact thing happened to me. I cleared it up at no expense on my part by having the US embassy in my home country send us a copy of my medical paperwork, which we provided to USCIS. The green card was in my hands a couple weeks later, but it is still a pain in the neck.