Urgent Care Unscripted

All right, everyone,
welcome back to Urgent Care Unscripted.

I'm Barbara,

an alternate director of operations at AFC
Urgent Care in West Haven. Hi.

And this is Mohamed Salah.

And I'm the franchisee of Urgent care
in West Haven.

Today we are here to talk about
immigration, physical

and how important it is
and what role does it play

in the overall immigration process.

Joining us today

we have Kara Hart, a seasoned
immigration lawyer who has been practicing

in Connecticut for over 20 years
with a deep commitment

to helping families immigrate,
basically navigate through the U.S.

immigration system.

Kara specializes in family
based immigration.

Guiding her clients through sponsorship.

All the way through U.S. citizenship.

Welcome, Kara.

We also today have Doctor Felix today.

He's our medical director, and he is also
our USCIS designated civil surgeon.

Welcome, doctor. Felix.

Thank you. Happy to be here.

I look forward to answering some common

clinical questions
regarding the immigration system.

Awesome. Let's start with the basics.

At what point in the immigration process
should applicants

complete
their immigration physicals? Kara.

I'm a civil servant.

Can easily be found online via the,

USCIS search option.

And basically a civil surgeon,
an experienced physician,

at least four years down
the Goshen application process.

And we are, designated the responsibility
to complete the Isaac's name to,

to ensure that an immigrant is,

medically able to,

enter the United States or remain
in the United States.

Awesome.

And, question for,
Kara, when the process starts,

how does the actual application
of the Isaac's entry form happen?

What does the applicant do at that point?

At AFC Urgent Care, we have designated

immigration process to be smooth
and straightforward for applicant.

So, doctor Felix, can you explain to us

what kind of tests
we do during these applications?

So we first consider what

the immigration physical
is supposed to do.

In general, it protects the US population

from infectious, contagious disease.

So a good part of it has to do with,
you know, building those out,

making sure the individual
has the appropriate vaccinations.

And does it have signs?

Let's see, I uses, syphilis and such.

That information is,

very easily,
available on the USGS website.

They can see all the requirements
in terms of vaccinations,

you know, seasonal flu vaccination
requires.

Covid is no longer required.

But several vaccinations,
depending on your age

and screening for packets for two doses
can be a syphilis, depending on your age.

As well as a physical exam
to ensure there's no signs of

active illness.

Are there any recent changes
in the policy of immigration that.

Cara, you can elaborate to us about.

Change in.

Senator Felix, I have a question for you
in regarding to the application,

you've mentioned that patients
do require to get some vaccines done.

What happens
if they don't have those records?

So we can do a medical screening

for titers, actually do lab tests to test
whether or not

you have sufficient antibodies
that will be done in the room.

And if they aren't, you, getting
those vaccinations would not be required.

You know, oftentimes
people come from other countries and,

you know, records are incomplete. You,

which sometimes in a different language.

And it's important
to do an English translation of records

because the, so we're searching for

the authors should be responsible for

understanding
what the, origin vaccinations are.

Barbara, from Francis perspective,
we often hear, clients

or patients
coming in for the patient physical,

and they're in a rush because
they have come to us in the last minute.

Yes. And,
although the process could take 3 to

4 weeks now,
they want to do that as soon as possible.

What kind of, patients do to make
the process really go as fast as possible?

How can they prepare themselves
and help make the process faster?

Absolutely.

So making sure you have
all of your medical records

ahead of time is a great way
to speed that process.

Unfortunately, that can't be true
for every single patient.

So what we do have, to do it

at the clinic, like Doctor Felix said, is
we have to do the titers for the patient.

So there are some blood works
that just take longer.

And if you want to eliminate that,
we can always give the patients

a booster vaccine just to make sure that
they are up to date with their vaccines.

As long as the medical provider,
Doctor Felix in this case is an agree

agreed with, that
And then there are the also, places

where people go for immigration, physical
that do not always have

an English, immigration
physical surgeon on site.

Those,
in, concern for people who are applying

Well, the USCIS website lists
the civil surgeons.

You have to make sure they actually be
seen by who search of record.

That would be a

problem both for the applicant
and for the civil surgeon.

There's an annual certification,
you know, checking process.

So the substance of the sign,
the paperwork,

that signature has to be
the civil search is not someone else's.

And, you know, there could be other issues
down the line, but in general,

want to make sure that the person signing
an exam is the actual signature.

I think Kara, for,
also for this episode, you had some,

final, points that you wanted, all of
our listeners to, be careful about.

And be mindful
of as they go through the process.

If you want to expand on your,
summary piece.

That's great.

And just with that,

would you advise, people
that are eligible to apply right away?

How long does the process typically take?

From start to finish?

One thing I would add

is the process, for the immigration
physical, can be fairly quick.

That would require at least two visits.

One, because a quantum field test,
which is a blood test

for tuberculosis,
has to be done on every patient.

And that would require a wait
time to get those results.

And then the subsequent visit,
after for the description

and to ensure that there's not being,
positive on that testing.

And if it were positive,
give me a chest X-ray done as well.

So it's always at least two visits
for the patient is good.

But that can be, you know, the second
visit could potentially be, some days.

So we apart.

is it important for the patients
or your clients doctor care.

Scary to provide all documentation
for their applications.

Right away.

Or should they kind of gather that as, as
they go through the application process?

You need to.

This has been so valuable,
and I'm sure our patients

would really appreciate, us going through
that immigration process for them.

And thank you for, all thank you, Karen,
and thank you

all to our viewers
for watching this episode.

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And if you have any questions, feel free
to send us those questions.

You can email us at West Haven team at AFC
Urgent care.com.

And you can also come visit us at 350
for Sawmill Road in West Haven.

Like we mentioned before,

we do immigration physicals here
and you can get it done starting today.

So there's no need to wait with us.

Thank you.

Take care of us.