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The following information is taken from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Form I-693 Instructions
| Medical | Est. Time | Action |
| Condition | for Clearance | Required |
| Suspected Mental Illness | 5 - 30 Days | The applicant must provide to a civil surgeon a psychological or psychiatric |
| Mental Retardation; Insanity | evaluation from a specialist or medical facility for final classification & | |
| Previous attack of Insanity; | clearance. | |
| Psychopathic personality | ||
| Sexual deviation or Mental | ||
| Defect; Narcotic Drug | ||
| Addiction & Chronic Alcoholism | ||
| Tuberculin & Skin Test Reaction | Immediate | The applicant is encouraged to seek further medical evaluation for |
| w/Normal or Abnormal | possible preventive treatment. | |
| Chest X ray | ||
| Tuberculin & Skin Test Reaction | 10 - 30 Days | The applicant should be referred to a physician or local health dept. |
| w/Abnormal Chest X ray | for further evaluation. Medical clearance may not be granted until | |
| Inactive Class B | the applicant returns to the civil surgeon with documentation of | |
| medical evaluation for tuberculosis. | ||
| Tuberculin & Skin Test Reaction | 10 - 300 Days | The applicant should obtain an appointment with a physical or local |
| & Abnormal Chest X ray | health department. If treatment for active disease is started, it must | |
| Suspected Active Class A | be completed (usually nine (9) months) before a medical clearance may | |
| be granted. At the completion of treatment, the applicant must present | ||
| to the civil surgeon documentation of completion. If treatment is not | ||
| started, the applicant must present to the civil surgeon documentation of | ||
| medical evaluation for tuberculosis. | ||
| Hansen's Disease | 30 - 210 Days | Obtain an evaluation from a specialist or Hansen's disease clinic. For in- |
| determinate or Tuberculoid, applicant must present to the civil surgeon | ||
| documentation of medical evaluation. If lepromotous of borderline and treament | ||
| is started, the applicant must complete at lieast six months and present docu- | ||
| mentation to the civil surgeon showing dequate supervision, treatment and | ||
| clinical response before a medical clearance is granted. | ||
| Venereal Diseases | 1 - 30 Days | Obtain an appointment with a physician or local health department. An |
| Chancroid, Gonorrhea, granuloma | applicant with a reactive serologic test for syphilis must provide to the | |
| inguinal;lymphogranuloma venereum; | civil surgeon document of evaluation for treatment. If an of the venereal | |
| syphilis | diseases are infectious, the applicant must present to the civil surgeon | |
| documentation of completion of treatment. | ||
| Immunizations Incomplete | Immediate | Immunizations are not required, but the applicant should be encouraged |
| to go to a physician or local health department for appropriate immunizations. | ||
| HIV Infection | Immediate | Post-test counseling is not required, but the applicant should be encouraged |
| to seek appropriate post-test counseling. |
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