Police check and medical

[Firegirl 0]

In my youth I made some wrong decisions (going back almost 13 years now) and I had a drug addiction. I have not had a problem in 13 years nor touched it.

On the medical questionnaire I have to state whether I have misused drugs to which I have to say yes as will be in my medical history, and I fully realise I will probably have to provide a urine sample at the medical to prove I have nothing in my system, will the fact I used to have a drug problem be a instant visa denial? I have never had a conviction or arrest with the police as a result, so I know that part is not a problem.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

In my youth I made some wrong decisions (going back almost 13 years now) and I had a drug addiction. I have not had a problem in 13 years nor touched it.

On the medical questionnaire I have to state whether I have misused drugs to which I have to say yes as will be in my medical history, and I fully realise I will probably have to provide a urine sample at the medical to prove I have nothing in my system, will the fact I used to have a drug problem be a instant visa denial? I have never had a conviction or arrest with the police as a result, so I know that part is not a problem.

Your medical history is only what you tell the doctor at Knightsbridge. Nobody can view your medical records unless you provide them. Drug testing is not routinely done, but could always be requested if the doctor saw fit to do so. The grounds for inadmissibility state

 (iv) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible

.

If you are no longer a drug abuser or addict, then you probably don't fit that definition.

Some links

http://www.visalaw.com/05apr1/2apr105.html Grounds of inadmissibility

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/subabuse99/chap2.htm Some Health and Human services discussion of addiction/abuse.

[Firegirl 0]

Your medical history is only what you tell the doctor at Knightsbridge. Nobody can view your medical records unless you provide them. Drug testing is not routinely done, but could always be requested if the doctor saw fit to do so. The grounds for inadmissibility state

 (iv) who is determined (in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services) to be a drug abuser or addict, is inadmissible

.

If you are no longer a drug abuser or addict, then you probably don't fit that definition.

Some links

http://www.visalaw.com/05apr1/2apr105.html Grounds of inadmissibility

http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/subabuse99/chap2.htm Some Health and Human services discussion of addiction/abuse.

Thanks Nich-Nick, I don't use anymore, and will be happy to do any amount if tests to prove this.

I would still have to check the yes on that question though, on the questionaire wouldn't I? I don't want to lie and it's not a piece of my past I am proud of, but if I get found to be lying at a later date.

Thank you