need help with ---visitor visa medicals referred to medical assessor

[liamkuttan]

Hi,
We have applied for a visitor visa for my parents under parent/grand parent category. The medical report of my father have been submitted to the assessor by C/O in last December and we have not heard from them. As time pass by our concerns are growing, My father has diabetes type 2, old MI, angioplasty was done a year ago, - Are these really a reason for the medical assessor to decline the visa ????

Is it possible for us to cancel the visa application now and apply in general category ?

Please give us some suggestions

[JandM]

Please read this.

https://www.enz.org/forum/showthread...008#post537008

The reason a medical is required for the parent/grandparent visa is that, since the applicant is potentially going to be spending a long time at a time in NZ, a greater possibility exists that a medical emergency could arise that would mean s/he HAD to be treated in NZ on humanitarian grounds, and they aren't allowed to take into consideration that the person may have medical insurance. http://onlineservices.immigration.go...nual/44856.htm

The time since the medical was sent to the MA is not significant for the reply. There is always a greater or lesser queue till a case gets the MA's attention, so much of the passing time is not spent considering the medical. Then quite apart from the volume of work, there has been the Christmas/New Year holiday, when there is only skeleton staffing.

Hindsight may be telling you it would have been better to go for the general visitor visa, but I'm afraid it's too late now. Your father's details are already in the system, with the fact that his medical has been referred, so if he were to apply for another visa that doesn't normally require a medical, it would trigger the previous information.

[liamkuttan]

thank you , we are so stressed. We withdrew the application under parent grandparent category. We want t apply or the general visitor visa for at least three months.

Any suggestions about how to approach this time and what supporting documents i need to submit to convince IMINZ that my father will not require any hospitalization during his three months stay.

[JandM]

You can follow the advice on that other thread, and have your father see his doctor or specialist to get a report on his current condition to send along to connect up with the eMedical. That way, with luck, by the time an MA is looking at the medical, the answers to the questions s/he may have will be there in the file already.