{"id":2397,"date":"2018-10-24T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T18:53:04","slug":"uscis-guidance-validity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/uscis-guidance-validity\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS Revises Guidance on Validity Period of Form I-693"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/policymanual\/Updates\/20181016-I-693Validity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revising guidance<\/a> for the validity period of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/i-693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, all applicants who file for an adjustment of status to a lawful permanent resident are required to submit a Form I-693 that is completed by a designated civil surgeon. In particular, Form I-693 is used to determine if an applicant is inadmissible to the United States based on public health grounds.<\/p>\n<p>As of November 1, 2018, the revised guidance will require applicants to submit a Form I-693 that is completed by a civil surgeon no more than 60 days before filing the underlying application for an immigration benefit. The Form I-693 would remain valid for a two-year period following the date the civil surgeon signed it.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of this revised guidance is to enhance operational efficiencies and reduce the number of requests to applicants for an updated Form I-693. The validity of Form I-693 will be more closely tied to the timing of the underlying application, and in some cases, the validity period of Form I-693 may be maximized while the underlying application is under USCIS review.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact our offices for any questions or concerns you may have regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is revising guidance for the validity period of Form I-693, Report of Medical Examination and Vaccination Record. Generally, all applicants who file for an adjustment of status to a lawful permanent resident are required to submit a Form I-693 that is completed by a designated civil surgeon. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[14,8,19,11,38],"tags":[93,94,26,28],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}