Medical Info

[Mal and Meg 12]

Hi, I have my medical on January the 5th and im a little worried.

I have diabetes and i was asked to bring a letter from my doctor so i got one

Im just curious if anyone else out there can tell me of the experience they have had with having diabetes for there medicals?

What should i expect?will they deny me cause of my Diabetes?

[YuAndDan 153]

Diabetes is NOT grounds for medical inadmissibility, so don't worry about this.

[Canadiandggal 49]

Hi, I have my medical on January the 5th and im a little worried.

I have diabetes and i was asked to bring a letter from my doctor so i got one

Im just curious if anyone else out there can tell me of the experience they have had with having diabetes for there medicals?

What should i expect?will they deny me cause of my Diabetes?

To my knowledge They will not deny you over Diabetes, just make sure to have that doctors letter and except some questions as to when you were diagnosed, what type and if any medications are needed.

They are mainly looking for infectious diseases such as Syphilis etc.

[Mal and Meg 12]

Thank you im just a little worried as my sugar has been running a little high though iv changed my diet to improve this and was worried they'd knock me back cause of my sugar levels!

[YAS8MIKE 1]

Diabetes is NOT grounds for medical inadmissibility, so don't worry about this.

what about hypo or hyperthyroidism?

do we need a clearance for every medical condition/disease such as diabetes, thyroid problem, heart problem etc? do we even need to tell?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

what about hypo or hyperthyroidism?

do we need a clearance for every medical condition/disease such as diabetes, thyroid problem, heart problem etc? do we even need to tell?

They may ask general health questions, and you should answer them honestly. The only type of health related problems that would make you inadmissible are ones that would make you a public health risk in the US, which means primarily contagious diseases.

Frankly, I'm surprised they asked the OP to provide a letter from their doctor regarding their diabetes. It's totally irrelevant for immigration purposes. The only reason I can imagine is if the OP has needle marks from insulin injections, in which case they'd want reassurance that the OP isn't an I.V. drug user.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

In general, the Knightsbridge doctors will want further information from the personal doctor concerning anything requiring a "yes" answer on their medical questionnaire.

To the OP, a couple called Bex and Alan went through London in 2008. Bex had diabetes. She had no problem getting the visa, but took a full report to Knightsbridge. We were friends and used to message alot. She had problems with AOS...like maybe even an intent to deny. Don't quote me on that, but it was harsher than an RFE. I can't remember the details of how it went with USCIS, but I do remember they said she failed to get a follow-up report on her diabetes in the US within 8 weeks of arrival as she had been instructed to do. Apparently Knightsbridge had written that on her medical report, but had not informed her. She had no idea she was supposed to do that and it was a hassle getting her AOS straightened out.. So if I were you, I'd ask the doctor at you appointment if he is putting any such notation on your medical report. Tell them you know they did it with another diabetic, but didn't inform her to follow up with a US doctor and you don't want problems when you apply for you greencard once in the US.

[HeatDeath 430]

I have Type 2 diabetes, controlled by diet and lifestyle. It's a class B condition, so it isn't grounds for inadmissibility in and of itself. When I did my visa interview, in Vancouver in April 2009, my USC now-wife was unemployed, and the IO expressed some concern about how I was going to handle things with no immediate access to health insurance, but she admitted that this isn't any kind of cause for inadmissibility. I imagine that a non-trivial probability of having a major medical expense with no health insurance could trigger a denial based on likelihood of becoming a public charge, if one's symptoms and complications were severe enough. I told her I'm young and reasonably healthy and I had a 6 month - 1 year supply of metformin and test strips, and that seemed to satisfy her.

I was able to get a copy of my medical at the PoE (which is apparently quite unusual) and while it says I should follow up with a US doctor upon arrival, I was never told this by anybody, and my AOS was transferred to the CSC and granted in under 90 days with no interview, so the "follow-up AOS almost-denial" may just be a matter of having a really b*tchy AOS adjudicator by pure bad luck-of-the-draw.

As near as I could tell, the immigration medical did NOT take an A1C or even a blood glucose test - they just included the physician letter in my file and checked "Diabetes" on the checklist of possible conditions. I have no major [or even minor] symptoms, so if I hadn't brought the letter, they wouldn't have caught it. But trying to hide it would have been a bad idea - see below.

YAS8MIKE: The instructions I received for the medical in Canada was to bring a letter from my physician documenting "any CHRONIC [their caps] illness or MAJOR surgery." So yeah, if they tell you something like that, you need to tell them everything. It's just like anything else in US immigration - you have no rights, no privacy, and lying or misrepresenting the facts will always always always come back and bite you.

Edited December 23, 2010 by HeatDeath

[mazy 2]

what about hypo or hyperthyroidism?

do we need a clearance for every medical condition/disease such as diabetes, thyroid problem, heart problem etc? do we even need to tell?

when i have my medical they asked if i have maintenance drugs or medicine, i told them i do and even told them the name of the medicine for thyroid, they just want to know