Hello TV Members,

I need some advice from those who've been in this situation.

We got down to the Embassy visit and health check and found out my wife has TB - they canceled her embassy visit actually. She started at Bumrumgrad (only Bumrumgrad and BNH are offical "CDC" checkpoints for the USA), but was "OK'd" to be treated at Bangpakok 9 hospital by the Bumrumgrad lung doctor. After 6 months the TB has not gone away. We are not sure if it is drug resistant or not, culture is being done.

We've been keeping the the lung doctor at Bumrumgrad in the loop the whole time. So she has the doctor from Bangpakok 9 call the doctor at Bumrumgrad and she hears the doctor at Bumrumgrad say even after she clears the TB treatment and has a clean bill of health, she will have to wait a year to get her visa.

Is this true or did she not hear this correctly?

Has anyone had similar experience?

The CDC website and internet info on this doesn't spell out the guidelines.

P.S. We know if she is drug resistant, then that means 1 - 2 years of more serious treatment. So I've stupidly gone off to the US because I thought she would soon follow, but he fates have snot smiled on us.

Does anyone know how long she must wait after successful treatment, including negative testing after that (CT Scan, fluids, etc.) before she can then get her visa?

Please help.

Thanks.

I am moving this topic from the health forum to the forum "Visas and migration to other countries"

I can't advise on the visa aspect, but when my ex had TB, it took more than one year of treatment/medicine for her to be free of the illness.