Parent Visa 143. Medical help!!

[Guest dimsy]

Hi All,

 

My mum has applied for contributary visa on 2008 and she has done the medical. Now we received a letter from medibank asking her to do a echocardiogram (cardiomegaly) and forward the results. She had slight enlargment on her heart and got her treatments.

 

I am worried about this situation and don't know where all his leads to?. Is this condition is enough to get her medical failed?.

 

Please help me to understand the procedure from here.

 

Thanks a lot

Dimsy

[wellieboots]

They have requested additonal medical information to determine whether your mum meets the medical requirement for migration.

 

Once you send in that information it will need to be looked at by a Medical Officer of the Commonwealth (a doctor appointed by DIAC) to determine whether your mum meets the requirement or not. If she does meet the requirement, that will be fine but if the MOC decides that she does not, (it all has to do with potential medical costs to Oz for her treatment and care) then the visa might be refused.

For certain family visas, a waiver is available so that the cost of her meds could be higher but she would still be accepted (hope that makes sense!) - I would imagine that applies to this visa - someone else will be able to confirm.

 

But don't worry at this stage - it will just mean that the process will take a bit longer.

 

All the best!

[Guest dimsy]

Thanks for the reply, Is ther anyone faced a similler situation regarding additional information?. My mum is perfectly healthy and I don't know what this extra information even her blood presure within the limits.

[Guest Gollywobbler]

Thanks for the reply, Is ther anyone faced a similler situation regarding additional information?. My mum is perfectly healthy and I don't know what this extra information even her blood presure within the limits.

 

Hi dimsy

 

Welcome to Poms in Oz.

 

My mother has a Contributory Parent sc 143 visa. She was 85 when it was granted in 2006. Medically there is nothing wrong with Mum. She has a load of aches, pains and routine ailments but none of them are serious in themselves. Most of them are to do with old age as much as anything else, I suspect.

 

As part of her visa meds, Mum was required to get a report from a Consultant Geriatrician. The MOC wanted to know as follows:

 

1. Did Mum have all her mental marbles?

2. How independent was she in Activities of Daily Living?

3. What was her general health like?

4. Was she - at the time - or was she likely to become eligible for residential care within 5 years or so?

5. Was she fit enough to make the long journey to Oz on her own by air?

 

The answer to Q4 was, "Not as far as anyone can tell at the moment but with somebody of 85, the whole story can change completely within 5 working days so it is impossible to speculate about the future beyond about 5 days, let alone for 5 years." The MOC accepted that the Geriatrcian saw it for - and was not falling for - such a stupid question as Q4.

 

The answer to all the other questions was positive/affirmative.

 

Mum's CPV 143 visa was granted without a hitch.

 

The MOC doctors do not care how much a visa applicant has to spend, plus the MOC doctors are only GPs. The one dealing with your Mum's meds might have no special training in or knowledge about Cardiology and the new Guidance Note for the MOC about Cardiology and similar was not available in November 2009 according to DIAC:

 

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/67292-have-your-say-health-requirement.html

 

No waiver of the health requirement for migration is available with any of the Parent range of visas. Obviously an elderly person probably won't be as fit as his/her child in their 30s. However unless there is clear evidence of a particular medical condition, the MOC is absolutely forbidden to leap to any conclusions.

 

LOADS of people have nothing wrong with them. LOADS of people have chest x-rays for migration to Oz and apparently loads of the x-rays suggest that the person has an enlarged heart. The MOC invariably demands that a cardiac specialist should become involved and specialised tests be done, just in case the heart is genuinely enlarged and the reason is down to a genuinely sinister cause.

 

99% of the time, the Cardiologist says that the person has nothing wrong with his/her heart and he can't imagine why his time and the visa applicant's time and money have both been wasted in the way that they have. The person's own GP does not demand special investigations at the drop of a hat, so the specialists tend to end up with a very low opinion of the GPs who provide the MOC service, bluntly.

 

Don't worry. I'm sure that a colossal amount of money will be wasted for no medical purpose whatsoever, but that your Mum is likely to be in the 99% of visa applicants who actually have nothing wrong with them, hun.

 

Cheers

 

Gill

[Guest dimsy]

Thanks Gill for that kind reply, We went to the cardio and done the echo test. It all turned out to be normal . What a releif.

 

 

Hopefully all well from here. And how long it takes to grant the visa from this process onwards?.

[Guest Gollywobbler]

Thanks Gill for that kind reply, We went to the cardio and done the echo test. It all turned out to be normal . What a releif.

 

 

Hopefully all well from here. And how long it takes to grant the visa from this process onwards?.

 

Hi Dimsy

 

Thank goodness your Mum was given a clean bill of health. I do know how worrying it is to be in your situation.

 

How long it now takes varies. If you push your mother's CO, it can all be done really quickly, though most people seem to be reluctant to push the CO. Sandch's timeline tracker and the big British Expat threads are the best guides, I reckon:

 

STILL VERY SPARKLY contributory parent visa thread part 3. - Page 103 : British Expat Discussion Forum

 

Australian migration, contributory parent visa, information and progress tracker

 

Good luck and please let me know how you get on?

 

Cheers

 

Gill