Medical strategy

[Martin_J 0]

My fiance got a chest xray locally and it showed a bit of scarring that they listed as "likely caused by PTB". I'm wondering if it might be a good idea for her to get the medical at, St. Luke's started since she will likely get into Sputum protocol at this point. 

 

Any thoughts? Not concerned about the cost. More so trying to use the (stopped) clock to our advantage. 

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11 minutes ago, Martin_J said:

My fiance got a chest xray locally and it showed a bit of scarring that they listed as "likely caused by PTB". I'm wondering if it might be a good idea for her to get the medical at, St. Luke's started since she will likely get into Sputum protocol at this point. 

 

Any thoughts? Not concerned about the cost. More so trying to use the (stopped) clock to our advantage. 

The only risk you run at this point is that the medical expires in 6 months.  You could do the medical now, most likely she will need to wait for 2 months as the cultures grow, then if negative, you would need her interview to come up in the 4 months after the growing of cultures.  If your not concerned about costs, then no harm in doing it now.  

 

The only question I dont know and someone else would have to chime in is if you had to do the medical again because it expired, would your fiance have to regrow the cultures for another two months.  Then it wouldnt make sense to do the medical now.  But I dont have that answer, maybe someone else does here.

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56 minutes ago, Martin_J said:

My fiance got a chest xray locally and it showed a bit of scarring that they listed as "likely caused by PTB".

 

It might be a good idea to make sure that isn't real TB because if it turned out to be a real infection it could become a much bigger and far more time consuming problem than just the sputum testing.

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6 hours ago, Martin_J said:

My fiance got a chest xray locally and it showed a bit of scarring that they listed as "likely caused by PTB". I'm wondering if it might be a good idea for her to get the medical at, St. Luke's started since she will likely get into Sputum protocol at this point. 

 

Any thoughts? Not concerned about the cost. More so trying to use the (stopped) clock to our advantage. 

As much as you want to try to "move things along", getting the medical done too soon will shorten the visa validity.   Visa validity is tied to the date of the medical (day 1).   

 

And as mentioned already, if she tests positive for TB she will have to complete DOT therapy (6 months of taking meds daily at St. Luke's).  Upon completion of DOT she would take a new medical and the visa validity would only be 90 days.

 

You are K-1, is your status on CEAC showing READY?

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11 hours ago, Hank_ said:

As much as you want to try to "move things along", getting the medical done too soon will shorten the visa validity.   Visa validity is tied to the date of the medical (day 1).   

 

And as mentioned already, if she tests positive for TB she will have to complete DOT therapy (6 months of taking meds daily at St. Luke's).  Upon completion of DOT she would take a new medical and the visa validity would only be 90 days.

 

You are K-1, is your status on CEAC showing READY?

We are actually still AT NVC on K1. My thinking (maybe I'm off) was that the 6 months didn't start until she could pass the medical. I'm anticipating at least a 2 month delay and potentially much longer if she is positive (although no symptoms). 

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2 hours ago, Martin_J said:

We are actually still AT NVC on K1. My thinking (maybe I'm off) was that the 6 months didn't start until she could pass the medical. I'm anticipating at least a 2 month delay and potentially much longer if she is positive (although no symptoms). 

Nope, your thinking is off.   6 months starts day 1 of the medical.  If you go beyond that 6 months and a new medical is required and with that medical the visa will have a validity of 90 days.