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When you are called for the green card medical examination<\/strong>, as a part of the entire immigration journey, you will be asked to provide your medical history by the doctor or a member of the Civil Surgeon\u2019s team. Your history will be reviewed by the doctor \u2013 how many times you went to hospital, all the times that you had to be admitted into an institution for any chronic mental illness or physical abnormality, or whether you have ever been so sick that there was a significant movement from the state of well-being \u2013 all these will be reviewed by the doctor\u2019s team.<\/p>\n

At the medical centre, the immigration medical will be conducted by a surgeon qualified to have the tests run. Civil Surgeons who conduct the medical are always appointed by the USCIS, or the United States Citizenship Immigration Services, a body that looks after the immigration procedure in the United States.<\/p>\n

You will be asked certain relevant questions \u2013 drug usage by you, alcohol usage if any, harmful behaviour in the past, if any or any records of mental illness pertaining to psychiatric behaviour which are not coming up in your medical documents.<\/p>\n

Your chest X-rays and other records will also be scrutinised to check whether you have had tuberculosis in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you are called for the green card medical examination, as a part of the entire immigration journey, you will be asked to provide your medical history by the doctor or a member of the Civil Surgeon\u2019s team. Your history will be reviewed by the doctor \u2013 how many times you went to hospital, all…<\/p>\n

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