Medical Exams

I just found out today that USCIS will not accept any I-140 applications without the medical exam complete. This was just announced to my attorney from USCIS today. This is new. I imagine because they are expecting a flood of applications they want them to be complete.

Thankfully I just completed mine but it was hard to get it done. The closest physician I could do it through in time for July 2 was 2 hours away from my home and I ended up having to make the trip 3 times. The first time for the medical exam, 2nd time for TB check, and then noticed an error and had to make an additional trip today to get it corrected. I imagine I am not the only one who had difficulty getting the medical exam done in time.

Suzanne,

Kind of too late for us now but the reason I posted here is to state my experience in hopes that others will avoid my mistakes. I actually did not have to do the TB skin test as I had one done at work within the last year but my family members had to do it. On the information we received they expressly stated not to go ahead and do anything until the exam since I suppose some do vaccinations that are actually not required so we followed that but in retrospect it would have been good to do the TB skin tests and then we would have done it all in one visit. However, there is still lab work that must be done and we had to pick up our paperwork due to the short turn around time we were dealing with. In the end I still feel very fortunate to have finished everything on time largely due to good practices from our attorney. I met someone at the physicians office today that has been waiting for years for his green card and it sounds like it is due to his attorney waiting to file and then retrogression hit and then nothing got done for years. He is on H-1B and has been in the US for almost 6 years already.

Thanks for you post about the visitors visa not being the correct process. That was my gut feeling as well as the visitors visa is not meant to have the intent to stay in the US. However, it seems some are not correctly informed or do not follow the correct process. My husband and I are very cautious and meticulous about following every little detail correctly and so far it has served us well. We are very excited about being able to file next week.