Medical and Interview Date

By Colin

Since my last post, I have been in London for a medical examination, which I passed without any problems.

I had to fill in a form that had general questions about my health (and which was very similar to one I had to fill in and bring with me to the appointment).  Then I was back and forward to various rooms to do different tests and get various checks.  I had a chest x-ray, got weighed and measured, had an eye test, had my ears examined and had a top-to-toe examination of my general exterior health.  I also had a blood sample taken to rule out several diseases.  The total time for the examination was around an hour and a half.  This fitted well with my flight schedule home, and thankfully the process was easily completed in one day, as I had planned.

I was told that if I had heard nothing after 4 days, I had passed.  I heard nothing.

The next stage is an interview at the American Embassy in London, which has now been confirmed for February 12.  An overnight stay was unfortunately unavoidable, because the interview time is scheduled for 8:00 in the morning.

I thankfully had the opportunity to speak to someone at the medical who had already completed his interview, and he told me that it isn't much to be concerned about.  The main thing he told me was to be there in good time, because there was a long queue even when he arrived an hour before his allotted time.  I have a checklist of documents I need to bring, all of which I already have.

I'll post again after the interview - hopefully with some good news.