Tb test

[blessed_ekim0826]

We just decided to apply for settlement visa. Do I still need TB test? How much does it cost here in the Philippines and how long is the validity before I submit my application.

[raynaputi]

You need the TB test results when you enter UK, not when you apply the visa.

[blessed_ekim0826]

You need the TB test results when you enter UK, not when you apply the visa.

OK so its not one of the requirements together with other docs that you are going to submit in VFS?

[raynaputi]

Check this thread for the documents.. http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php/39869-All-New-Guide-How-to-apply-for-a-Fiance-Visa

[jlags90]

OK so its not one of the requirements together with other docs that you are going to submit in VFS?

You do not need a TB Test Result when you apply for a settlement visa as stated in the docs required by the UKBA. However, you might be asked for one when you arrive in UK Airports. Some just bring their chest x-ray results with them on flight dates. With regards to payment, it would vary but I paid 180 for mine.

[blessed_ekim0826]

Check this thread for the documents.. http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php/39869-All-New-Guide-How-to-apply-for-a-Fiance-Visa

OK thank u so much

[blessed_ekim0826]

You do not need a TB Test Result when you apply for a settlement visa as stated in the docs required by the UKBA. However, you might be asked for one when you arrive in UK Airports. Some just bring their chest x-ray results with them on flight dates. With regards to payment, it would vary but I paid 180 for mine.

Thanks Jona

[blessed_ekim0826]

You need the TB test results when you enter UK, not when you apply the visa.

I just checked the UKBA site about the TB test and PHILIPPINES is now on the list of pre-screening.

[Rhose]

don't worry about the TB test focus on your documents and application.. you can do it after your spouse receive her visa. I've done it before living in the Philippines but the immigration didn't ask me for it when I arrived in the airport.. :)

[Terpe]

I just checked the UKBA site about the TB test and PHILIPPINES is now on the list of pre-screening.

Can you post the link for that please ?

[blessed_ekim0826]

Can you post the link for that please ?

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/may/42-tb-test

That is the link and there are many countries are now on the list.

[Doc Alan]

I suggest you have a look at this thread :-
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php/31919-TB-curable-but-a-long-way-to-go


# 20 which I posted over 6 months ago gives the relevant links. What you refer to is – to my knowledge – not yet implemented, and with respect, you have more urgent matters to concern you.

[mars]

Hi everyone. I'm new in this forum. I am really worried about my lung scar. I had been treated with TB for 6 months and completely cured 2 years ago. I had medical certification from my doctor too. My boyfriend decided to sort out a visiting visa for me to visit and meet his family in the UK. I am aware that TB testing and chest x-rays are done and might need to show when arriving at the airport. Please tell me what are my chances of the immigration for granting me a visiting visa. ( I am aware of the documents and everything needed tho, but just a bit worried of the medical results). And if I give them the x-ray film and shows scars in it, will they still allow me to pass through and spend holidays in the UK? I'll only be there for a month.

Hope to hear from you guys soonest. thanks a lot.. God Bless!

[sars_notd_virus]

Hi everyone. I'm new in this forum. I am really worried about my lung scar. I had been treated with TB for 6 months and completely cured 2 years ago.

TB is recurrent, but if you have been treated and your pulmonologist says your clear then no worries.

[ConfusedMe]

Hi everyone. I'm new in this forum. I am really worried about my lung scar. I had been treated with TB for 6 months and completely cured 2 years ago. I had medical certification from my doctor too. My boyfriend decided to sort out a visiting visa for me to visit and meet his family in the UK. I am aware that TB testing and chest x-rays are done and might need to show when arriving at the airport. Please tell me what are my chances of the immigration for granting me a visiting visa. ( I am aware of the documents and everything needed tho, but just a bit worried of the medical results). And if I give them the x-ray film and shows scars in it, will they still allow me to pass through and spend holidays in the UK? I'll only be there for a month.

Hope to hear from you guys soonest. thanks a lot.. God Bless!

I got scarring too and what they only ask is the letter from the doctor's that you are cleared from it. No need to worry :)

[Doc Alan]

The “ scar “ detected in the lungs on Chest X Ray is simply a defensive fibrous tissue “ barrier “ round the site of TB infection – it may also attract calcium deposits which are visible on the X Ray. Scarring is not unique to TB infection . It means the body has reacted to, and contained, the infection.

Provided a full course of the correct treatment – usually for about 6 months – has been taken, and your health is generally good, then there should be no recurrence of TB.

( “ Multi drug resistant TB " is not presently a common problem in the Philippines, compared to countries such as India, China and the Russian Federation ).

It’s best to keep as complete a record of treatment and vaccinations for all conditions, not just TB. If the Chest X Ray is not available, try at least to obtain a report on its findings.


Much more information on TB is available here :-
http://filipinaroses.com/showthread.php/31919-TB-curable-but-a-long-way-to-go

[mars]

Thanks guys for the replies.

I got all my documents and files with me including old x-rays showing the progress it made. I was treated with the disease although I haven't shown any signs nor symptoms of it. I was told to do the sputum test before but since I can't produce any sputum specimen ( no cough at all) my docotor didn't force me to and I didn't underwent the said test. Do I still need to undergo same test as before especially the sputum test? since I really am not coughing, no symptoms at all but it always shows on my x-rays.

Doc Alan : in the Philippines, newly born infants automatically receive a shot of BCG vaccine, considered I had mine years way back. :smile:

ConfuseMe : the same policy (just a medical certification/ clearance from your doctor) still applies until now? If you don't mind me asking, how long does it take to have a visa? Processing time, medicals, etc.. :icon_rolleyes:

[Arthur Little]

Commencing, I believe, in the 1950s, it gradually became standard practice for MOST British schoolchildren aged 13/14 and upwards to be vaccinated against TB using BCG - a minute dose of the tuberculin virus itself ... or so my [extremely] limited knowledge of infectuous and/or contageous diseases leads me to understand. :icon_rolleyes:

Several days (or possibly weeks) prior to the injection being administered, however, each adolescent within the eligible age range was given a preliminary "pinprick" in his/her arm ... a test [apparently] designed to detect whether or not an individual had built up a degree of immunity to tuberculosis through, either having suffered from the disease - or been exposed to it - at some earlier stage in their lives. *If a "raised area" developed in the skin surrounding the site of this preliminary pinprick, then it seemed to indicate the person was immune to TB for one or other of the reasons I've mentioned above.

*Such a case in point was myself (back in 1958). Instead of receiving the BCG jab, I and a very small number of classmates were summoned to report for a Chest X-Ray at a Mass Radiography Unit set up in the Perth locality. Results for me were clear; yet, nonetheless, I recall being bombarded with questions about my medical history and afterwards having to attend the Children's Chest Clinic for a couple of precautionary follow-up visits.

Moving forward nearly half a century to 2005, I had occasion to undergo another chest x-ray when it was discovered that - in spite of a [very] moderate pipesmoking habit - my lungs were in reasonably good shape for a man in his sixties but, there appeared to be some evidence of scarring caused by [undiagnosed] tuberculosis dating back to my early childhood.

Now ... it so happens that - around the tender age of 8, while still living in Glasgow - I was off school for 3 months ... suffering from what my parents were led to believe at the time as being "Enlarged Glands" in my back, but which I'm NOW convinced had, in fact, been tuberculosis ... :anerikke: ... although this was never [B] actually confirmed. :NoNo:

[Michael Parnham]

I was treated for TB on my left lung in 1953 the treatment at that time was two years in bed with daily injections of Streptomycin. When released from hospital apart from having to learn to walk again I was told that I was 100% fit and that I was immune from TB ever again, and up to date I have never had any problems at all! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[ConfusedMe]

ConfuseMe : the same policy (just a medical certification/ clearance from your doctor) still applies until now? If you don't mind me asking, how long does it take to have a visa? Processing time, medicals, etc.. :icon_rolleyes:

I'm not sure what's the changes now. But speaking from experience, when I arrive in the UK, the border ask me about my medical/tb test. I had my tb test and treatment done in Phils.

For now, you need to focus with your visa application. It takes longer to process this time I heard. So make sure you got all the necessary requirements.

[mars]

thanks a lot! :wink: