Immunization question: MMR vs MR

[CLMIKE 22]

Good Afternoon

We're trying to review my fiancee's immunization records. She has everything but the shot for influenza already done, so she's going to try and research where she can get that done. But from all the readings I've saw online, everyone recommended that the person having the interview have two shots of MMR.

If you've never received one shot of MMR, you can't get both at the same time (you need two in your lifetime) and would have to wait four weeks before having another one.

That part is crystal clear, no questions there.

But upon looking at her shot record, she has

1 shot of MMR

1 shot of MR (measles and rubella)

Would she have to get another dose of MMR to get the second shot for mumps? Or is one shot of mumps enough? Or is there quite frankly a mumps shot?

Just wanting to help her before she goes back to the doctor to request the influenza shot what to do.

Thank you in advance to everyone who reads this.

Michael

[brashley 0]

Hi Michael,

I had a bit of a thing with the MMR vaccine too-

when I went to the medical at Knightsbridge the nurse checked over my records and found that when I was young the second dose of MMR was missing the Mumps strain- it was a MR just like your fiancé! (apparently it was a 1994 thing!)

She was lovely and advised that for the K1 it is only essential for the applicant to have received the vaccines by the time you apply for residency when you are physically in the USA. She was very nice (as she could have charged me £50 to do the vaccine there and then!) but she advised me to go back to my local GP, explain the situation and they could give me it- I just needed to keep proof that I received it.

I did so, my local nurse was a bit baffled by it as apparently in 1994 this was a standard thing! Any how- she gave me a standard MMR shot again for free- Explaining that too much cant hurt you- so all done and dusted and my visa appointment was not effected at all by doing it after the medical.

All the best for the process, I received my approved visa two days ago- I stressed over the smallest things, loosing sleep- going actually mad with anxiety, and in one morning- it was all resolved and you walk out thinking... what the hell was the last 7months about!? done!!

lots of positive thoughts x

[lost_at_sea 995]

As an extension note on this - even though K1s do not have to have a completed immunisation record, they do for AoS, and it is often more straightforward to be vaccine-complete at the K1 medical (so it's signed off on the form then - DS-3025 IIRC) rather than getting anything missing done after.

If you do wait until after (either getting them done by a GP in the UK before you depart, or with your new doctor in the USA), you'll have to find an approved civil surgeon in the USA to complete the forms you'll need for AoS (and, often, they will insist on a new complete medical).

There was a topic on this just recently: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/467190-ds-3025-from-knightsbridge/

And here's Nich-Nick explaining the vaccination requirements in more detail: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/463722-vaccinations-required-before-k1-visa-can-be-issued/?p=6626450

Edited November 24, 2013 by lost_at_sea

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Hi Michael,

I had a bit of a thing with the MMR vaccine too-

when I went to the medical at Knightsbridge the nurse checked over my records and found that when I was young the second dose of MMR was missing the Mumps strain- it was a MR just like your fiancé! (apparently it was a 1994 thing!)

She was lovely and advised that for the K1 it is only essential for the applicant to have received the vaccines by the time you apply for residency when you are physically in the USA. She was very nice (as she could have charged me £50 to do the vaccine there and then!) but she advised me to go back to my local GP, explain the situation and they could give me it- I just needed to keep proof that I received it.

I did so, my local nurse was a bit baffled by it as apparently in 1994 this was a standard thing! Any how- she gave me a standard MMR shot again for free- Explaining that too much cant hurt you- so all done and dusted and my visa appointment was not effected at all by doing it after the medical.

All the best for the process, I received my approved visa two days ago- I stressed over the smallest things, loosing sleep- going actually mad with anxiety, and in one morning- it was all resolved and you walk out thinking... what the hell was the last 7months about!? done!!

lots of positive thoughts x

Had you gotten it done before the medical you could have avoided the hassles people have with civil surgeons.

Read this from someone who did not get everything recorded on the DS-3025.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/462793-medical-again-in-usa-due-to-incomplete-vaccination-record/

Or this http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/461012-medical-exam-for-aos-after-k1/

[CLMIKE 22]

That is our current plan. Her tetnus is over 10 years old, so we'll be requesting

1. MMR (another dose)
2. Influenza (flu shot)

3. Tdap or TD.

Anything they won't let her get at her clinic for free I'll be pushing to be paid for (by me regardless ) at Knightsbridge to not fool with it in America.

[lost_at_sea 995]

That is our current plan. Her tetnus is over 10 years old, so we'll be requesting

1. MMR (another dose)

2. Influenza (flu shot)

3. Tdap or TD.

Anything they won't let her get at her clinic for free I'll be pushing to be paid for (by me regardless ) at Knightsbridge to not fool with it in America.

Good plan. The pain of paying for stuff at Knightsbridge is worth it to skip doing it in the USA.

[Sharkano 13]

Yeah, we wanted it done at Knightsbridge recently, but they refused to do the MMR, saying the stocks are limited by national order. Going to have to get it done here in U.S. Oy vey, lol.