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I hear some people have started their medical in the afternoon. Is it possible to show up at 1:00pm on the first day and start the process?

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Feel free to sleep in and then have a leisurely breakfast and another cup of coffee before you saunter over to St. Lukes. :)

Many people avoid getting up before the crack of dawn and falling in line with the zombies by arriving in the late morning or in the early afternoon. It's possible to arrive at 1:00 pm for the first day of your medical and still get it done.

Chinook and her friend arrived around 10:00 am and completed the first day of their medical. I've only heard of one person who arrived late and St. Lukes turned them away because they were too busy that day.

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Filed: K-1 Visa Country: Philippines
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I hear some people have started their medical in the afternoon. Is it possible to show up at 1:00pm on the first day and start the process?

I have read of people coming in the Afternoon and getting their Medical done that day. I saw where some said they came as late as 230PM and got it done although we wont do that. Grace is going to get a Flight from Cebu in the morning arriving Late Morning there, and going straight to St. lukes hopefully arriving around 10 or 11AM. since it is only a hour flight hopefully everything goes well when she arrive in Manila. I am sure 100PM is ok!:thumbs:

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Yes, it's possible. Going to St. Luke's in the afternoon definitely worked for me. Two people - a fellow CR1/IR1 applicant and a nurse who used to work at SLEC - told me that I could avoid a long wait by going in the afternoon. And they were right! I got in at 1:30 and finished at 3:00.

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I'd advise going to SLEC before lunch (11AM-12PM) because this is the time when the early birds gets hungry and leave for lunch. If you arrive late in the afternoon they might turn you away especially if it's a busy day like Monday.

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I just completed my medical on the 22nd and 23rd. :) That's a tuesday and wednesday, and I was there 1:30-5:30pm on the first day, and 2:45-6:30pm for the 2nd day. Tuesday afternoons are quite busy but still that was just 4 hours :). Some of the people I talked to began their medical at 10am and they just finished an hour before me.

I asked the guards of the best time where there are really few people having their medical exams, and he said afternoons of wednesday to friday are good. :)

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yes it is okey to go St.Luke in the afternoon. like what i did. i arrived Manila @ 2:00pm and had lunched then proceed to St. Luke @ 3:30pm .They still accommodate clients until 4:30pm for US applicants. I finished it for only 2 hrs..Good that there were few people having their medical exam.. it was Tuesday.Then by Wed. they told me to come back in the afternoon aroung 2pm and up for the result..and i passed..It was easy for me to do it since i already registered online and printed out the copy to show to them that i had done my registration online.. I went immediately to picture taking and fingerprinting...

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I did mine pretty early last yar. 6am-10am then 8am-1030am the next day

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