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Friday, March 20, 2015

Certain medical conditions identified during an immigration physical exam can make you ineligible for a green card

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What the immigration physical exam looks for

During an immigration physical exam the civil surgeon or examining physician is looking for certain conditions which can make you ineligible for your green card.  These conditions include:

·         A physical or mental disorder, along with a history of behavior that is associated with this disorder which may pose or already has posed a threat to the safety, property, or welfare of yourself or others and where this behavior seems likely to recur and lead to other types of harmful behavior.
·         A physical or mental disorder, along with a history of behavior that is associated with the disorder and which may pose or already has posed a threat to the safety, property, or welfare of either yourself or others.
·         A communicable disease which is considered to have public health significance.  The primary diseases an immigration physical exam looks for are active tuberculosis, infection leprosy, and venereal diseases. 
·         Addiction to or abuse of drugs.

Germantown Primary Care Associates in Germantown, Maryland can provide you a complete immigration physical exam.  Dr. Manbir Takhar, the Chief Medical Officer at Germantown Primary Care Associates is an appointed U.S. Civil Surgeon, authorized to conduct immigration physical exams.

How to submit your immigration physical exam results

If you are still overseas when applying for your green card provide your documentation to the U.S. consulate or to the U.S. embassy. 

If you are already in the United States, your immigration physical exam physician will complete the Form I-693 and give it to you in a sealed envelope.  Do not open this envelope, but take it with you to USCIS when you have your green card interview. 


Germantown Primary Care Associates in Germantown, Maryland provide the best primary care in the area.  They can also help your with your immigration physical exam, so give them a call today.

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