Medical Checkup from USA

[jb12]

Hi Stormgal,
Just noticed your visa timeline and that you were recently granted the PR. Are you just first planning to validate your visa? Or making the move already?

[mbc71]

Originally Posted by ozbound12

My understanding is that meds for 176 visas need to be sent to the Health Operations Centre in Sydney since the visas are processed in Australia (instead of at the embassy here). I was told by my agent that the HOC normally processes the paperwork within 2-3 weeks of receipt. Did your CO tell you to send them to the embassy in DC?

Check out these links:
Where to Send Australian Visa Medical Results
http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/...class-list.pdf

Maybe send an email to your CO to see what's up?

The doctor I went to sends the results to the embassy (that's their policy for Australian immigration medicals), so I didn't have an option to tell them to send them elsewhere.

Unfortunately, neither I or more agent has received an email from my CO, even though it appears one was assigned on 21 May (status went to ABPF, and some of the uploaded docs, but not all, were set to "Met").

Very frustrated - no way of knowing what's going on!

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[ozbound12]

Can you (or your agent) send them an email to at least confirm that the HOC received the results?

[stormgal]

Originally Posted by jb12

Hi Stormgal,
Just noticed your visa timeline and that you were recently granted the PR. Are you just first planning to validate your visa? Or making the move already?

I am going to validate first, while looking for work. If I like it and find work, then more than likely, I will stay. If I can't find work, then I'll save up more money and try again next year.

How about yourself, when are you planning to move? You've had your visa for a while, right?

[mbc71]

Originally Posted by ozbound12

Can you (or your agent) send them an email to at least confirm that the HOC received the results?

I will definitely ask my agent to do this if there's no change in the status by this Thursday (which would be 3 weeks from the date the doctor sent the medicals off).

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[mbc71]

Just an update - our medicals were finally uploaded today, 21 June. That's exactly 3 weeks from the date the doctor's office sent them off to the AU embassy.

For myself, my son, an my daughter, they all show as completed/received, but for my husband, his says "Further medicals referred".

Still no contact from the CO. Sent a note to my agent asking her to follow up, and she said she can't follow up on the application without knowing who the CO is.

Hopefully when the medicals were uploaded, the assigned CO was notified and it will spur them to check on our application!

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[Sanjukta]

Quite frankly I feel the whole process of medical finalization is one big mystery. It's very hard to predict when and what will be the next update.

Our medicals were received by the LCU on June 12 and there was no update on my online application for my medicals until Jun 21st. On June 21st my agent sent medical receipt and tracking number to my CO and voilà we got our grant on Jun 22nd. So the medicals went straight from being required to met (at least that's the only change I saw as I was not monitoring it every second to see it change to finalized) ....here is a quick span shot of our medical process end to end:

Took medical exams: June 1st
Reports mailed out: June 8th
Reports reached LCU Sydney: June 12th
Medicals Met: June 22nd

[ozbound12]

Originally Posted by Sanjukta

Quite frankly I feel the whole process of medical finalization is one big mystery. It's very hard to predict when and what will be the next update.

Our medicals were received by the LCU on June 12 and there was no update on my online application for my medicals until Jun 21st. On June 21st my agent sent medical receipt and tracking number to my CO and voilà we got our grant on Jun 22nd. So the medicals went straight from being required to met (at least that's the only change I saw as I was not monitoring it every second to see it change to finalized) ....here is a quick span shot of our medical process end to end:

Took medical exams: June 1st
Reports mailed out: June 8th
Reports reached LCU Sydney: June 12th
Medicals Met: June 22nd

Good to know. I'll have to scan in my receipt and ask my agent to send it along to the CO after a week or so (according to FedEx, our medicals are supposed to arrive there on Monday).

[jb12]

Originally Posted by stormgal

I am going to validate first, while looking for work. If I like it and find work, then more than likely, I will stay. If I can't find work, then I'll save up more money and try again next year.

How about yourself, when are you planning to move? You've had your visa for a while, right?

Sorry for the late response. I just noticed your response now. I have the issue with owning a house in this bad market. I also have slowly been looking at jobs. But I haven't seen the salary I'm targeting for. However, some jobs don't advertise any amount. Also, I'm targeting Sydney where I have relatives living. Unfortunately, most jobs in my field are in Melbourne. I think if I didn't have the house, it would be a little bit easier to leave. But I can't just default on it as others have suggested if I'm leaving the country anyway. Yes, I've had the visa for a couple of years.

[stormgal]

Originally Posted by jb12

Sorry for the late response. I just noticed your response now. I have the issue with owning a house in this bad market. I also have slowly been looking at jobs. But I haven't seen the salary I'm targeting for. However, some jobs don't advertise any amount. Also, I'm targeting Sydney where I have relatives living. Unfortunately, most jobs in my field are in Melbourne. I think if I didn't have the house, it would be a little bit easier to leave. But I can't just default on it as others have suggested if I'm leaving the country anyway. Yes, I've had the visa for a couple of years.

Hi jb12 -

But what happens if you can't sell the house and you have 1 year left on your visa?