K1 > I-485 - AOS interview scheduled but unsure about DS-3025/I-693

[meva 0]

Hi! Hope someone can help!

 

I am a K1 > AOS applicant. My interview with my (now) husband is scheduled for end of March, 2021. In June 2019, I had my K1 medical examination completed in London, before entering the US in September 2019. However, I am now unsure about whether I need a completed Form I-693 to bring to the green card interview.

 

Back in June 2019 I had my Visa Medicals appointment in London (Knightsbridge) and I only received a sealed envelope, which I handed over at the port of entry to the US. I was not given a copy of a completed DS-3025. I did, however, get a sheet (see below) to bring to my own doctor in the UK to get additional MMR & TDP booster shots.

 

Shortly after, I went to my own practice to get these shots and the nurse who administered them was hugely grumpy about having to give a 'healthy' person unnecessary extra vaccinations on the NHS's dime. I am now super unsure if she communicated back to the Visa Medicals practice that I received these additional shots (as it asks in the last line below).

 

So I do not have a copy of the DS-3025 so do not know what that says and I am not 100% sure the original that I handed over at the POE reflects that I got all the right shots. Should I go to a surgeon general and get an I-693 filled out ahead of my interview?

 

What happens if at the green card interview USCIS asks for proof of my vaccinations? Can I show them the below? If that does not suffice, will my green card get rejected? If I do need another exam/proof of shots obtained, would there still be an opportunity to do this after the interview?

 

Would USCIS have written to me to let me know that they needed additional proof of my vaccinations ahead of interview?

 

Thank you!!

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

I would wait for the interview. If your vaccinations are not marked as complete they'll let you know and send you a RFE after the interview. 

USCIS wouldn't let you know before. Sometimes they send out those courtesy letters for the medical but they also send them to people who don't need it so that's nothing to trust in.

[meva 0]

4 minutes ago, Letspaintcookies said:

I would wait for the interview. If your vaccinations are not marked as complete they'll let you know and send you a RFE after the interview. 

USCIS wouldn't let you know before. Sometimes they send out those courtesy letters for the medical but they also send them to people who don't need it so that's nothing to trust in.

Ah, so the RFE would be sent to me after the interview? Or they would tell me at the interview that there still is a last hurdle to jump? Woudl this massively slow down me getting the green card?

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

2 hours ago, meva said:

Ah, so the RFE would be sent to me after the interview? Or they would tell me at the interview that there still is a last hurdle to jump? Woudl this massively slow down me getting the green card?

They'll probably already tell you at the interview that this part is missing and that they'll send you a RFE for it. 

How much it will slow you down depends on how fast you can get it done and how long it takes to send you the RFE. Maybe one month. Hard to say. You could try to call Knightsbridge and ask if they've received the feedback from your doctor back then if you want to find out before your interview. 

[Wuozopo 4,293]

14 hours ago, meva said:

Ah, so the RFE would be sent to me after the interview? Or they would tell me at the interview that there still is a last hurdle to jump? Woudl this massively slow down me getting the green card?

At this point, it is just better to see what the interviewer requires since you did not follow up with Visa Medicals in London (formerly called Knightsbridge Doctors). 

They will tell you at the interview exactly what they need from you to approve the application. It could be proof of vaccination or a complete new medical or nothing further. You go to a civil surgeon and get what they want, send the documentation directly back to your interviewer, and wait for him to review it. Timing depends on available civil surgeon appointments and how long it takes your interviewer to open his mail.  
 

If you don’t have proof of vaccinations from your GP,  then you will need those if your DS-3025 was not marked with the final jabs at the GP and signed off as complete by Visa Medicals. You don’t know because you didn’t follow up. Hopefully you have your full immunisation record to give to the civil surgeon. The paper you posted is of no use for anything except informing your GP what jabs were requested. 

Edited March 14, 2021 by Wuozopo

[Joyoussinger 1,425]

3 hours ago, Wuozopo said:

At this point, it is just better to see what the interviewer requires since you did not follow up with Visa Medicals in London (formerly called Knightsbridge Doctors). 

They will tell you at the interview exactly what they need from you to approve the application. It could be proof of vaccination or a complete new medical or nothing further. You go to a civil surgeon and get what they want, send the documentation directly back to your interviewer, and wait for him to review it. Timing depends on available civil surgeon appointments and how long it takes your interviewer to open his mail.  
 

If you don’t have proof of vaccinations from your GP,  then you will need those if your DS-3025 was not marked with the final jabs at the GP and signed off as complete by Visa Medicals. You don’t know because you didn’t follow up. Hopefully you have your full immunisation record to give to the civil surgeon. The paper you posted is of no use for anything except informing your GP what jabs were requested. 

You can still follow up with the GP and ask them to send you a copy of the immunization record if you don't have it now.

[meva 0]

3 hours ago, Joyoussinger said:

You can still follow up with the GP and ask them to send you a copy of the immunization record if you don't have it now.

Thank you! Yes, going to call Visa Medicals and ask for a copy of my DS-3025 to double check what's on it

[meva 0]

7 hours ago, Wuozopo said:

At this point, it is just better to see what the interviewer requires since you did not follow up with Visa Medicals in London (formerly called Knightsbridge Doctors). 

They will tell you at the interview exactly what they need from you to approve the application. It could be proof of vaccination or a complete new medical or nothing further. You go to a civil surgeon and get what they want, send the documentation directly back to your interviewer, and wait for him to review it. Timing depends on available civil surgeon appointments and how long it takes your interviewer to open his mail.  
 

If you don’t have proof of vaccinations from your GP,  then you will need those if your DS-3025 was not marked with the final jabs at the GP and signed off as complete by Visa Medicals. You don’t know because you didn’t follow up. Hopefully you have your full immunisation record to give to the civil surgeon. The paper you posted is of no use for anything except informing your GP what jabs were requested. 

Thanks so much. If I have to go to a civil surgeon after interview that's fine. I do have proof of all my prior vaccinations and I can try to get my old GP to provide confirmation that they did indeed give me the extra shots on the sheet (for the record, the E C initials at the bottom were signed by the reluctant nurse)

 

But do I understand correctly that I might not need to do anything further, even if I call and find out from Visa Medicals that the DS-3025 I handed of at POE was not complete? Could it be that even if that is the case, USCIS doesn't bring it up at interview and simply lets proof of those booster shots slide?

 

Finally, I don't quite understand how Visa Medicals would have updated the DS-3025 after I got the extra jabs at my GP office? Pretty sure I walked out of Visa Medicals with the sealed envelope that I handed over at POE. Would Visa Medicals send updated records to USCIS directly?

[Wuozopo 4,293]

59 minutes ago, meva said:

Finally, I don't quite understand how Visa Medicals would have updated the DS-3025 after I got the extra jabs at my GP office? Pretty sure I walked out of Visa Medicals with the sealed envelope that I handed over at POE. Would Visa Medicals send updated records to USCIS directly?

Visa Medicals gives you a photocopy of the vax sheet DS-3025, which will only reflect what you brought with you to the exam plus any jabs you may have asked them to give you. The only way the needed MMR and Td would have been added to your DS-3025 record is if you asked them to hold your medical report until you could get the shots at your GP. (I did that and they mailed me a copy of the DS-3025 after they updated it with my new shot). The clinic tends to push K1s on through because you don’t need shots to get the visa. It would be rare that they suggested holding up your report while you got shots. This comes from 13 years of reading VJ members experiences at the clinic (in the UK Forum of Visa Journey). If you thought it up and insisted that they not send you medical report until you got the shots....then maybe they got on your signed off record.

The full medical report (Including original vax sheet)  goes directly to the embassy for review at the visa interview. You did not leave the medical with it.  Visa Medicals sends nothing to USCIS in the states. They are contracted by the Dept of State (embassy) and only supply info to the embassy.

 

When your passport/visa was delivered to you by the courier, there was also a “DO NOT OPEN” white envelope full of all your immigration files PLUS the original medical report that your interviewer reviewed. That white envelope sent from the embassy is what you turned in at POE.

 

59 minutes ago, meva said:

 I do have proof of all my prior vaccinations and I can try to get my old GP to provide confirmation that they did indeed give me the extra shots on the sheet (for the record, the E C initials at the bottom were signed by the reluctant nurse)

Again, that form you show is worthless to a civil surgeon, should you need to see one. You would need a proper vaccination list of all shots from your GP with the name of the practice, the date each shot was given, name of the shot which may contain the lot number of the vaccine. If you have a partial list, then you need documentation of the two latest. 
 

59 minutes ago, meva said:

But do I understand correctly that I might not need to do anything further, even if I call and find out from Visa Medicals that the DS-3025 I handed of at POE was not complete? Could it be that even if that is the case, USCIS doesn't bring it up at interview and simply lets proof of those booster shots slide?

Stranger things have happened because the interviewer didn’t have a clue what the rules were. So that’s why you should wait and see what happens. 

 

 

Edited March 14, 2021 by Wuozopo