“We now require sure candidates submitting Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, to submit Form I-693, Report of Immigration Medical Examination and Vaccination Record, with their Type I-485 or the Type I-485 could in any other case be rejected.
Candidates for adjustment of standing usually should full an immigration medical examination and all required vaccinations and submit a correctly accomplished Type I-693 signed by a civil surgeon to indicate they’re free from well being situations that might render them inadmissible beneath the health-related grounds.
In case you are required to submit Type I-693, or a partial Type I-693 (such because the Vaccination Document), you have to submit it along with your Type I-485. In any other case, we could reject your Type I-485. We’ve got revised the Type I-485 directions to make submitting the 2 kinds collectively a requirement.
We’ve got made this variation to scale back the variety of Requests for Proof we concern earlier than adjudicating a Type I-485.
Extra info on the immigration advantages that require an immigration medical examination and vaccinations, and whether or not a civil surgeon or panel doctor ought to conduct the immigration medical examination is obtainable in Vol. 8, Part B, Chapter 3 – Applicability of Medical Examination and Vaccination Requirement of the USCIS Coverage Guide.”
