USCIS Policy Manual Update [ I-693 Medical ]

[kemm360 144]

I found this new update about medical: 

 

USCIS Policy Manual Update

USCIS is revising policy guidance for the validity period of Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record.

The updated policy, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, 2018, will require applicants to submit a Form I-693 that is signed by a civil surgeon no more than 60 days before filing the underlying application for an immigration benefit. The Form I-693 would remain valid for a two-year period following the date the civil surgeon signed it. As such, USCIS is retaining the current maximum two-year validity period of Form I-693, but calculating it in a different manner to both enhance operational efficiencies and reduce the number of requests to applicants for an updated Form I-693.

USCIS officers use Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, to determine whether an applicant for an immigration benefit in the United States is inadmissible under the health-related grounds of inadmissibility. By specifying that the Form I-693 must be signed no more than 60 days before the applicant files the underlying application for which Form I-693 is required, the validity of the form is more closely tied to the timing of the underlying application.

Additionally, requiring submission of a Form I-693 that was signed no more than 60 days before the date the underlying application was filed may, in some cases, maximize the period of time Form I-693 will be valid while the underlying application is under USCIS review. Officers will still have the discretion, as they have always had, to request a new Form I-693 if they have reason to believe an applicant may be inadmissible on the health-related grounds. Delays in adjudicating the underlying application will also be reduced if fewer requests for updated Forms I-693 are necessary.

 

https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-policy-manual-update

[geowrian 22,335]

Thanks for sharing!

 

Good...the current process was a mess given the current timelines involved. Many people submitted the I-693 with the I-485 and it expired (1 year) before their interview, so they needed a new one. Others were foregoing the medical until shortly before the interview...avoiding the need for multiple medicals but posing a potential health risk in the meantime. Now people can do the medical before filing and not expect it to expire.

[akoko-01 12]

can please someone confirm if we got this straight:

so we did our medicals back in august. we are not getting together until november. we will be filing mid november. so basically since it will be more than 60 days between the doctor signing the form and us filing AOS, we will get an RFE to redo the medicals?