My Thai niece has been issued two Tier 4 visa to study at boarding school in the UK for the past three years. We have never been asked to supply a TB certificate. If I recall correctly, she was excluded from this requirement.

We are now applying for a visa for the next academic year and it looks as if we now need to get a TB certificate. She is now 13 years old.

Am I correct? Last time we applied was 2013.

Tuberculosis tests for visa applicants

All children must see a clinician who’ll decide if they need a chest x-ray. Children under 11 will not normally have a chest x-ray.
You must take your child to an approved clinic and complete a health questionnaire. If the clinician decides your child doesn’t have TB they’ll give you a certificate. Include this certificate with your child’s UK visa application.

Tuberculosis tests for visa applicants

All children must see a clinician who’ll decide if they need a chest x-ray. Children under 11 will not normally have a chest x-ray.

You must take your child to an approved clinic and complete a health questionnaire. If the clinician decides your child doesn’t have TB they’ll give you a certificate. Include this certificate with your child’s UK visa application.

OK thank you for the reply

Rather than start a new thread.......

My wife's daughter had her TB x-ray today on her 11th birthday and the certificate says:

Sputum test = not done

Chest x-ray = normal

No evidence of active pulmonary TB

All good, but for some reason they've ticked the box which says "Under 11 years of age and has undergone health assessment".

Does the fact that she passed the x-ray and that her date of birth and test date are on the certificate anyway, override any suggestion that she was just given an assessment for under 11s?

The certificate says she is free from pulmonary TB; that's all she needs.

Whether or not she had a health assessment as well as an X ray or they've ticked the box in error shouldn't matter.

I assume she was tested at the IoM in Bangrak..

The certificate says she is free from pulmonary TB; that's all she needs.

Whether or not she had a health assessment as well as an X ray or they've ticked the box in error shouldn't matter.

I assume she was tested at the IoM in Bangrak..

Thanks 7by7. That's what I thought. Good to have a second opinion though. Yes, all done via IoM in Bangrak.