previous hospitalization- k1 visa- mental health-

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Hello! I am writing to ask more information regarding wheter can a previous hospitalization (panic attack)  from 3 years ago affect my chances of inadmission in the medical exam for the k1 visa. I am currently under antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressives. No symptoms at all, stable. I will ask my doctor to write a letter explaining that I pose no harm to anyone. I am also thinking in asking her to remove my meds, as I don't have symptoms anymore, so I can be 12 months stable with no meds until the medical exam. I don't drink nor use drugs. My embassy is the one in Argentina, if that matters. Does anyone has had similar treatment and went to the medical exam? How did it go? Thanks

[Coco8 1,076]

There are some threads I link below. Before you move forward, I think you need to figure out what your health insurance will be in the US. I've seen more recent threads in which they ask about this in the interview, it seems. If you are on medication, how are you going to get that medication in the US? You can certainly take some with you, but nobody in the US is going to prescribe it for you. Have you seen the requirements from your partner's job to add you to his health insurance? Some have few requirements (just living together), some have more requirements like you need a SSN (many people make the mistake of waiting to get the SSN or cannot manage to get a appointment, and then they have to wait months until their EAD arrives). K1 is much riskier than a marriage visa.

 

 

 

 

 

[Coco8 1,076]

This is a relevant comment in one of the threads I shared because is someone from Argentina:

 

 

[TBoneTX 49,411]

Welcome to the forum!

 

The letter from your doctor should be very helpful.

Your intent to prove that you can live medicine-free for 12 months is honorable.

However, you should abandon that plan, for your own good, if it results that you do need some or all of the medicine.

[JeanneAdil 7,492]

It will very much depend on what the dr says

If the medicine you are taking keeps you stable and without it, you would have issues , then you need to follow drs orders

 

i am sure the dr would have already taken the meds away if you do not need them

don't stop on your own 

 

With the prescription , you can bring in 90 days of meds ( in original bottles and in baggie) as mentioned above you will need US dr to write the presciption after POE and the wait for appointment could be a long one 

[Coco8 1,076]

I had totally skipped the part in which you mention that you could leave the medication before the exam.

 

Given what it says in other threads, people can be sent to do a psychiatric exam as part of their medical exam. So being without treatment not only can trigger this exam but that doctor might disagree with the fact that you are not taking any medication. That's a much worse scenario. 

 

[JJJ7 1]

Heres my experience for prev mental health. Ive been approved

My medical appointment was after the 14^th Feb 2026 cut off where the process changed slightly where you go for a document review straight after your medical. I went to my medical really overly prepared. I had a GP summary page which you ask to get printed at your GP. They have to print this out for you legally I read online. In here there’s a section called major diagnosis or major issues…something along those lines. I had two instances of mental health on there, one was an attempted Suic***. I have an online GP service so I can see my entire medical notes, I printed out the entire record for these periods (this was overkill) and then specialist letters/a and e visits for that time period of bad mental health. I had not had any MH issues in 5 years so I paid for an letter from my GP to say that I had not been seen by NHS for mental health issues for 5 years and have not been on MH related medication in that period either. In the folder I brought I had a letter explaining the past history which was formatted as “between 2019 and 2020 I saw my GP for MH, what happened was….” “ I have not been on any medication or seen a professional about my mental health since … and I don’t believe these symptoms will reoccur”. So I basically laid out briefly what those main issues were. Your GP summary also has your vaccine records on there too, but for extra measure I took my red book (baby vaccine records). I got to the medical place which is pretty unassuming, and is like a doctors waiting area inside. They take your docs, I gave them the core notes, and had loads more to back up if they needed. They said start with the core notes and the doctor will ask if they need more. After maybe 20/30 mins I was called to see a nurse who asked me questions about my vaccines. I had all of them apart from hep B. This was a massive dose and was honestly quite painful, she says that is usual for this large dose hep B. I was then called in for my X ray maybe 10 mins later, where they ask you to take off everything from the top half of your body including necklaces and wear a papery gown, keeping your trousers on. You do all this behind a curtain. When you’re dressed you push your chest up against an x ray plate and its done. Then you get dressed and take your gown back to the waiting room. Then the doctor called me after another half hour, she was a lovely south African woman. I immediately said I was nervous as I have mental health history. She asked me questions about it like “was it intentional or a cry for help” “have you had these feelings recently” “ do you know what you would do if you started to feel like this again”. She asked me if I ever self harmed and I said only once and it was very superficial and left no scarring. Asked me some general health questions- do you drink/smoke. She then took my weight and height (fully clothed). Then she asked me to sit on the bed and took my blood pressure then took my blood, she was fantastic at that as usually I have bad veins. She then checked my arms and legs for self harm scars which I don’t have, and checked my stomach by proding, and asked if any parts were painful, she explained what she was doing in every part. She then asked me to take off my jumper and I had a small tank top type thing on so she asked if I wanted to tuck the gown round me too. Then she listened to my chest. She then sat me back at the side of the desk and she said it all looks good. I said I was nervous my previous mental health would affect my application and she assured me “not at all” “the only thing they are looking for is any suicidal attempts or intentions in the last year, that’s all they care about” “I don’t see you as a risk I see you had a bad time a few years ago but nothing that would prevent you from passing the medical” I was very reassured.

[TBoneTX 49,411]

12 hours ago, JJJ7 said:

Heres my experience [...]

Great first post in the forums!  (Pssst... next time, make paragraphs.   )

Glad that you were approved, and thanks for information that can help others.