Medical Exam Fees

[cirenebrown 1]

Afternoon,

 

Looking for some general advice, or if someone experienced this and how they proceeded. After receiving instructions on how to schedule the visa appointment and the letter with approved doctors we proceeded to try to schedule the medical exam. The beneficiary called to schedule and was told to bring one price (124,000 CFA).  The letter from the embassy has the fee schedule for the medical, radiology, blood work and show it will be approximately 67,000 CFA. The additional cost would possibly be for vaccinations. Usually we would have accepted that the difference between the verbal price and the price with additional would be the final cost, but in this case we have gone through this process with this doctor once for my spouse and again for two stepchildren. The additional did not exceed 30,000 CFA in total. Still no where near the price. Just so happens my spouse is in Senegal and I asked him to call the doctor to ask why they are so far above the price the embassy has shown, he calls and the receptionist went even higher on him and said it will be 144,000 CFA.  You might already know my question, do i just need to get with the embassy to sort this out? Yes I can select another doctor on the list, but that does not stop the process of abuse that seems to be happening to people just trying to navigate this process. Any advice? 

[appleblossom 5,023]

32 minutes ago, cirenebrown said:

Afternoon,

 

Looking for some general advice, or if someone experienced this and how they proceeded. After receiving instructions on how to schedule the visa appointment and the letter with approved doctors we proceeded to try to schedule the medical exam. The beneficiary called to schedule and was told to bring one price (124,000 CFA).  The letter from the embassy has the fee schedule for the medical, radiology, blood work and show it will be approximately 67,000 CFA. The additional cost would possibly be for vaccinations. Usually we would have accepted that the difference between the verbal price and the price with additional would be the final cost, but in this case we have gone through this process with this doctor once for my spouse and again for two stepchildren. The additional did not exceed 30,000 CFA in total. Still no where near the price. Just so happens my spouse is in Senegal and I asked him to call the doctor to ask why they are so far above the price the embassy has shown, he calls and the receptionist went even higher on him and said it will be 144,000 CFA.  You might already know my question, do i just need to get with the embassy to sort this out? Yes I can select another doctor on the list, but that does not stop the process of abuse that seems to be happening to people just trying to navigate this process. Any advice? 

 

It may just be that their info is out of date, you could contact the consulate just to inform them, but they aren't likely to do anything about it. 

 

It looks like there are only two authorised doctors in Senegal, so have you asked the other one what their fee would be? 

 

Your profile info isn't correct by the way - looks like you're K-1 applicants, but your profile says CR/IR-1. I'd amend that as often the answer to a question will be different for each. 

Edited September 25 by appleblossom

[JeanneAdil 7,271]

Call the dr office directly yourself and make arrangements to pay them directly