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He didn't choose to not have them so I'm not sure why the doctor didn't give them. He's just missing 2. Do you think this will be an issue and they will deny him entry?

Thanks @JeanneAdil. The weird thing here is that he has no medical history and wasn't told that there was anything wrong with his medical exam. As far as we know, he's perfectly healthy... that's why I'm just confused about why there's a notation on his passport that he apparently has some sort of communicable disease...

Hi everyone, Hopefully this is the right place to post this question! My husband from Turkey just received his passport back with CR-1 visa inside. However, there are two annotations on the visa: 221(g) (2)(b) Class B Req. Attn. of USPHS at POE. From my (perhaps incorrect) understanding, the first annotation is related to an incomplete vaccination record, due to him having not received some vaccinations due to them being considered medically inappropriate (for example he didn't receive a meningitis vaccine because he's over 18). He did have to undergo extra AP with DS-5535, so maybe it's also related to that? Does anyone know what the second annotation relates to? Is it saying that he has a Class B health condition? He was not notified of any health issues at his medical exam, nor does he have any sort of adverse physical or mental health history or any history of drug use. Now I am worried that he has a health condition he doesn't even know about and for some reason was not alerted to at the exam.. Anyone with experience on what this annotation means? Could it be related to the vaccine thing? Thanks so much to this wonderful community for always providing much-needed answers.

Thank you for the reassuring words! You were right - his visa status changed to issued the next day and we have since picked up the passport!

Just wanted to update in case others have questions about the AP process. Luckily after 3 weeks my husband received an email saying his AP was completed and to send his passport back to the embassy. We sent his passport a week ago, and are awaiting a decision. But just today, the visa status on CEAC changed from refused to administrative processing (and on the embassy website it says 'processing completed'). Does anyone know why the CEAC site would say 'administrative processing' when we got an email saying his processing was done? Is there extra processing we have to go through? I thought after getting the email from the embassy saying his processing was completed, we were nearly there, but now we are disheartened by this new status. Is it possible the CEAC site isn't accurate? Thanks for the help!

Hi everyone, My husband had his interview yesterday at the embassy in Ankara and while the interviewing officer said everything looked good, my husband was issued a yellow 221(g) slip and given his passport back. They later emailed us requesting us to fill out the DS-5355 form. No extra documents were requested on the yellow slip as he brought everything needed to the interview. We are so devastated by this. After waiting so long to get an interview only to have to wait who knows how many more months for them to do extra security checks. Does anyone know what could have triggered them to want a DS-5355 form? I have read many interview reviews from other Turkish people on here and none had this issue. Could it be someone else has a similar name to his and is on some sort of watchlist? Would where he is from in Turkey (Sanliurfa near the border with Syria) be an issue? My husband is in his mid-20's and has never even left the country and does not have a job that would warrant further checks (is a waiter). I don't even understand the point of the DS-5355 - the only new information it asks for is sibling names and birthdays. Everything else (past 15 years work, travel, and address history, social media, and prior spouses and children) is already provided in the visa application. Does anyone, especially from Turkey, have experience with this type of AP? I know the processing time varies from case to case, but hearing other's experiences with how long it took would help us navigate this difficult time. Thanks all!