Form I-693

Below is an email from another K1 applicant who’s now here in the USA. I am posting it here for future reference for others should they go through the same thing.

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Hi Inna, How are you? I hope you’re doing well.
I hope you still remember me. I’m now here in the US.

I’m now processing my permanent resident status. They’re sending me a letter asking for an additional evidence. They ask me to get a medical exam. the I-693 Form. Akala ko ba were done with our medical sa St. Lukes and that the immigration will forward the medical result to the US immigration where our papers are being processed? I can’t understand why are they asking for another evidence? They said that the immigration did not forward the medical result to California office. That’s not our fault, di ba?

Ang hindi ko ma intindihan bakit sila mag request ng another medical exam when we already done it in the Phils. I called one of their doctors here it’s gonna cost us $400!!! Ang mahal mahal!
The medical exam is just the same what we did in the Phils.

If you know anything about this, Please let me know. or did you undergo the same scenario.

Thanks so much, your input would be a great help.

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From my experience, I did send in the I-693 along with the the I-485 when I filed for my adjustment of status. The reasons behind my submitting the I-693 with my I-485 is that first, I did not have any vaccinations done when I was in the Philippines because I was pregnant that time I had the medical and second, I remember that the lady from St. Luke’s told me that there is a vaccine that is not available in the Philippines, and we can only get it here in the US. So that may be the reason why all K1 applicants from the Philippines, need to be poked again, for this particular vaccine, aside from the ones that they had from the Philippines.

You need to go to a physician that is in the list of USCIS civil surgeons in your area, then he’ll refer you to the health center to get the particular vaccination that you still need. That way you don’t need to pay a lot. I only paid $20 or less for my vaccination, took the vaccination result to the USCIS physician then paid $75 for him to fill up the I693 form.

If you say that USCIS claims that they were not given the medical result for your exam, when you came here, after a week you received a copy of your medical exam result from St. Luke’s, right ? Now if you have that, you can bring it to to that USCIS physician so he can include it in your form I-693. He will be able to see from your vaccination supplement from St. Luke’s that you already had several of the required vaccinations. Hopefully he will be understanding of your situation, and will not insist that you take another medical examination again, at his clinic. If you don’t have that copy of the vaccination supplement that you had in Manila, then you can ask for a referral to take the necessary vaccination at the health center so it won’t be too expensive.

I hope this helps.