Guidelines to Heed For Your Immigration Medical Exam

The immigration medical examination is of vital importance to the USCIS and it is up to their physician panel and surgeons to ensure that people who receive the green card are not a medical threat to the US citizens

Every immigrant to the US must go through a medical examination to verify good health.

The medical examinations include the following procedures:

Physical Examination
Each immigration applicant must have a physical examination in which complete disrobing is required. A mental status evaluation procedure is also part of the examination.

TB skin test
Every immigration applicant above the age of 2 years must take the Tuberculin skin test.

Serologic Blood test
This test is must for all the applicants' above the age of 15 years. This test is to check for HIV and syphilis ailments.

All recommended vaccinations also must be complete. The vaccinations for the following must be complete:

Measles, Mumps, Polio, Tetanus, and Influenza type B, Rubella and Diphtheria etc.

When the medical examinations are over the panel physician or the civil surgeon involved will provide his certification to the results on the required form and put the appropriate seals. The sealed envelop must be handed over along with your immigration application. All these panel physicians and civil surgeons are licensed and experienced professionals.

The list of names of these designated physicians and civil surgeons are available from USCIS to demand. The fee for these tests is your responsibility and you must pay the doctors as well as the laboratories involved.
If you are going in for the medical examination in the US, you will need to use form I-693, while you will use form DS-2053 if you are applying for a visa at a US consular office abroad.


Remember to carry your passport or any other kind of government issued photo identification along with you for the medical examination. You should also carry along a written history of your vaccinations as well as three visa-sized photographs of your self.

A few medical grounds can be the cause of rejection of your application for immigration. If the health of an applicant is such that it may cause concern for the health of the US public at large, as per US Visa Laws such applicants cannot get an approval.

There are four categories for this medical ground of inadmissibility:
Drug abuse and/or drug addiction
Such communicable diseases that have public health significance
Absence or lack of appropriate vaccination
Mental or physical disorder