OA long stay visa USA

[tonray]

Question: can I get my medical clearance done in Thailand before applying at NYC consulate? Would that be accepted ? A whole lot cheaper than getting it done in USA without insurance and maybe having to wait 3 weeks for result. 

[Lite Beer]

Has to be done in U.S

[tonray]

Thanks.. Hardly worth it.. Blood work without insurance could cost 1000 bucks or more.  Perhaps I will cancel trip plans and go to plan b. 

[Pib]

As they NYC consulate website states, the medical certificate must be from the "....country of application..."

 

1. Three copies of medical certificate form completed by a doctor in the country of application showing no prohibitive diseases. Certificate forms must be less than three months old.

[Samui Bodoh]

I did my O-A long stay in Canada. I wrote to the consulate and asked if I could do the medical in Thailand and they said okay as long as I used their form.did it at the International hospital in Samui for 250 baht. 

Might be worth writing and asking. 

Good luck 

[Langsuan Man]

Unfortunately depends upon who is processing your paperwork

 

Washington DC Embassy accepted a Medical Certificate for an O-A from Bangkok Nursing Home Hospital that they were more than willing to email me since I had just had a annual physical while on a 30 day permission to stay

 

But that was in the days when Thai Embassy had Thais handling O-A Visas,  I seriously doubt if the local hire would allow it today,  because,  as shown above,  it does require that it be done in your home country