hnchoksi@...nojunk (Hnchoksi) wrote in message news:<20040821203007.16562.00002604@mb-m22....>...
> >Subject: Re: Fiance is sick with TB can she come to the us?
> >From: Boiler member22431@british_expats.com
> >Date: 8/21/2004 1:56 PM Eastern Standard Time
> >Message-id: <34$250120$1614910$1093110973@britishexpats.com>
> >
> >
> >> Ok this is a question for a friend and i really don't know the answer
> >> to this,
> >>
> >> He is engaged to a phillipino woman they have all the paperwork done
> >> and the consulate in the phillipines is just waiting for it so she can
> >> come over.
> >>
> >> she has TB but is being medicated for it, the questions are these:
> >>
> >> 1) does she need to tell ins/bcis that she has TB?
> >> 2) if she does can she still come to the USA if she has TB?
> >> 3) if so where on the BCIS.gov website does it say this or anywhere
> >> else.
> >>
> >> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >
> >It will be picked up in the medical for sure, includes a chest x ra-
> >y, other than that I do not know. I guess it depends whether she is
> >contagious.
> >
>
> If she is currently under treatment, there is no way she can get an immigrant
> visa. The X-ray will show it and the tuberculin test will show it. Taking a
> treatment does not count. The individual must not have active disease. The
> X-ray should be completely clear, barring any tissue scarring.
>
> Also on a moral note, does she really want to expose 300+ people on the plane
> to it? It may even be possible that she could be charged as a terrorist if she
> tries to get aboard a plane...
She really should expose these people. In 1992, the campus health
center of my school gave skin test to all foreign students. I showed
not red sign even after 2 more repeated test performed by the health
center.
In 2001, a classmate from a previous semester talked to me in length
on the steps of a campus building. I thought she was just intesreted
in becming friend with me. Toward the end of the conversation, she
told me that she had TB and was seeing a doctor. Of course, the next
day, she called me and asked me whether I could give her a ride to the
doctor the next morning at 8AM. First of all, the doctor's office is
just down the road from her apartment. Though I lived not far from
her, the fact that she wanted to trap me in the car and expose me to
her TB made me so disappointed. She shouldn't have stopped me and
talked to me in length the previous day, exposing me to her TB. I was
still receovering form my surgery and there was no way I was going to
get up so early so that she could be at the clinic by 8AM especially
risking to catch her TB.
I don't what the h**l is wrong with people. |