Medical issue; TB, latent marked communicable by Doctor

[Josh00333 0]

I could use some help/advice.

My fiancé is in Beijing. We received approval, and she started her medical. The Doctors did not do a skin test but did a chest X-ray. There was a shadow. My fiancé started a sputum test, we waited the 6 weeks.

Test results; 3 of 3 smears were negative. 2 of 3 cultures were positive other negative.

My fiancé is in perfect health otherwise.

The Doctor in China will not mark her as latent TB. I have run her results by my doctor and his thoughts are it's Latent TB with 0 chance of contagious.

My fiancé feels this is a scam by the local doctors to force her to pay for a TB treatment in China; $6000, apx $1000 USD. Which I would pay tomorrow if it got this solved; it's the 9 month wait that pisses me and her off.

My understanding is that active contagious TB is class A; you will not get a visa with out treatment. Latent TB is Class B and normaly not a factor.

1) Is that correct?

2) how is the medical results determined, strictly by the china doctors or are the results looked at by the embassy in an other way? My assumption is they are looked at as marked by the china doctors, I just want to verify that.

3) my plan not and only hope is to fille for a medical waiver with my Doctors diagnosis. Is this even possible?

4) What are the down sides to all of this? Can she go to her interview? What if they mark "no"? Dose it kill the whole thing or do we just have to get her treated?

This last part has becom a mess.

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[Mike&Janssel 2]

I know the feeling of waiting for 7 months for that reason. In our country, even you provide a proof that you are not contagious they will still insist that you need to undergo treatment because they will be the one who would let her pass and continue her visa application and I think there's no way she can escape that treatment because she is positive in the culture. The embassy will not give her visa because they also depend on the clinic result of her medical. We paid another payment for my re-medical too. The medication on US patients are free also the sputum test and culture but in some other country they have payments but I dont know in her country. I'm sorry to hear that and you just have to hang on.

Edited August 12, 2013 by Mike&Janssel

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

All latent TB has a chance to become active again. And it 2 cultures were positive, then it sounds positive to me...

The doctors are protecting the public health. We don't have TB here and we don't want it. They are not going to give her a waiver when she is a danger to public health in the US.

[Josh00333 0]

I know the feeling of waiting for 7 months for that reason. In our country, even you provide a proof that you are not contagious they will still insist that you need to undergo treatment because they will be the one who would let her pass and continue her visa application and I think there's no way she can escape that treatment because she is positive in the culture. The embassy will not give her visa because they also depend on the clinic result of her medical. We paid another payment for my re-medical too. The medication on US patients are free also the sputum test and culture but in some other country they have payments but I dont know in her country. I'm sorry to hear that and you just have to hang on.

Mike thanks.

What was the details of how the treatment worked with the application?

Is her app stuck on hold for 6 months then simply revisited, or does this nuke everything and we start over from scratch? Should she go to her interview? If every thing else goes smoothly at the interview will it simply be a hold till the treatment is done?

[Mike&Janssel 2]

Mike thanks.

What was the details of how the treatment worked with the application?

Is her app stuck on hold for 6 months then simply revisited, or does this nuke everything and we start over from scratch? Should she go to her interview? If every thing else goes smoothly at the interview will it simply be a hold till the treatment is done?

For me, the treatment was 6 months and 2 months waiting before retaking the medical. I'm guessing that before she got sputum test she or the clinic cancelled her interview appointment to the embassy, right? While she is undergoing treatment everything about your papers are on hold. You will resume on your application once she got cleared on tb and the clinic release her. I think the clinic will inform the embassy that the applicant has been detected so expect that it wont schedule her interview soon. If everything or she is taking the treatment well, she can easily go back to the application. There are some cases that the treatment is taking longer depending on the health of the person. I pray she will finish it with no complication and just wait for the treatment to be done. Try to tell her to eat and sleep well and exercise.

Janssel

Edited August 13, 2013 by Mike&Janssel