Sputum Test & Visa Interview

[Shottayut 15]

On 1/26/2019 at 7:45 PM, Hank_ said:

Do allow enough time for the medical file to be transferred to the embassy, as that is not hand carried with SPUTUM or DOT.

How long do you have to wait. My wife is in Mexico and tomorrow will be 8 weeks I will call the embassy today. When is the usual time the embassy received the medical results

[Hank_ 9,173]

51 minutes ago, Shottayut said:

How long do you have to wait. My wife is in Mexico and tomorrow will be 8 weeks I will call the embassy today. When is the usual time the embassy received the medical results

No idea on the process for the U.S. embassy in Mexico.

 

This is the Philippines forum.   Maybe find the forum for Mexico

[Spaw 0]

Hello my fiance just went for her medical today. They claimed to see something in X-ray and want her to do a Sputum test October 4,5,6 but her interview is on October 7th. They claimed that she may still be able to attend the interview but they weren't sure. I'm waiting to hear back from them through email as ever since Covid started they never answer their phone lines. Has anyone ever challenged the results and asked for a 2nd X-ray and review from another doctor? Is this even possible? We flew to Manila from Mindanao, such an inconvenience to have to wait 2 months. Just searching for anybodies thoughts or advice on this, especially if they requested another X-ray and got a different result the 2nd time. I only bring that up because I have experience with false diagnosis'.

[brightfuture78 118]

7 hours ago, Spaw said:

Hello my fiance just went for her medical today. They claimed to see something in X-ray and want her to do a Sputum test October 4,5,6 but her interview is on October 7th. They claimed that she may still be able to attend the interview but they weren't sure. I'm waiting to hear back from them through email as ever since Covid started they never answer their phone lines. Has anyone ever challenged the results and asked for a 2nd X-ray and review from another doctor? Is this even possible? We flew to Manila from Mindanao, such an inconvenience to have to wait 2 months. Just searching for anybodies thoughts or advice on this, especially if they requested another X-ray and got a different result the 2nd time. I only bring that up because I have experience with false diagnosis'.

I can't express how much I distrust and despise St Luke's. They put me and my fiancé through a special kind of hell. To this day, I'm still not convinced she ever had TB - zero symptom, and allegedly, it only appeared in one of the MANY samples she had to regularly submit throughout the process. On top of that, they claimed she had a rare type of TB that couldn't be treated with the usual meds and made her endure 18 months of going to that clinic everyday - she didn't live anywhere close to Manila, so she had to move there and rent an apartment. And then, when we finally climbed out of that hole - Boom, we find ourselves in the middle of this pandemic! Our file has been sitting at USEM since 2018 and still waiting for an interview date as we speak.

 

SLEC is not to be trusted - and yet, you're pretty much at their mercy. I remember when the pandemic first started, they closed down for weeks and my fiancé couldn't go there to receive her daily TB meds. Because of this, they emailed her the required prescriptions, told her to go to a pharmacy and buy it and keep the receipts so they could reimburse her. She did exactly that. Guess what - those lying SOBs never reimbursed her. I'm still trying to get someone there to answer for this, but I'm fairly certain it's a loss.

 

When her treatment was over, they insisted she needed to do another exam within the next few weeks while her record of treatment completion was still valid. When my fiancé questioned whether they could help her get an interview date at the embassy before the results expire, SLEC simply told her 'you need to contact the embassy and try to get an interview'. We paid the medical fee again, she completed it, and when we tried to get an interview, explaining the entire situation to the embassy, they told us to kick rocks, and 'next time, don't redo the medical exam until you already have an interview date.' By the time the is over and she can finally get an interview, we will have paid the exam fees 3 times.

 

I swear, I've never felt so violated in my life than what SLEC and the USEM has put us through. Don't trust ANYTHING they tell you. When something they tell you turns out to be untrue, they won't feel sorry for you, they won't help make things right, and they won't reimburse you or give you credit.

 

 

Edited September 27, 2021 by brightfuture78