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Per my wife it was a CBP agent not a TSA agent who opened the envelope. When she arrived at Dulles they took her large brown envelope she received from the German Embassy and opened it. Inside that envelope was a smaller brown envelope which reads on the outside DO NOT OPEN. This envelope contained her medical exam. My wife asked the agent if the agent needed everything that was in the large envelope. She said the agent looked at the smaller envelope, opened it and said "no that's your medical I don't need that", and he handed the envelope back to my wife.

We are getting ready to file the AOS and my wife called USCIS to ask about submitting the opened envelope. The USCIS rep she spoke with told her "Ma'am, we will NOT accept any open envelopes, they MUST be sealed." We cannot obtain another sealed envelope with the medical exam except by going to a Civil Surgeon here and paying for another exam, so that's what we did.

Now that we have our I-693 we are sending off our AOS package.

My wife & I had an unfortunate but eye opening experience recently. When she arrived at Dulles Airport from Germany in February one of the TSA reps opened her sealed medical package which contained the results from her medical exam on form DS 2053.

Since USCIS does NOT accept ANY opened medical packages - they say so on the USCIS web site: [After completion of the medical examination, the civil surgeon is required to give you, the applicant, the completed Form I-693 in a sealed envelope. Do not accept it if it is not in a sealed envelope. USCIS will return the form to you if it is not in an envelope or if the envelope has been opened or altered.]

My wife HAD to have another medical exam here. She paid 200 Euros in Germany for her medical exam in order to get here on the K1 Visa, and we wound up paying and $305 USD yesterday for a medical exam here to get the I-693 form signed by a Civil Surgeon.

If you have a fiance coming here soon be sure to tell them to MAKE SURE that their medical envelope STAYS SEALED to avoid having to pay for another medical exam once they get here to the U.S.