Studying in Australia: The Necessity of Physical Examination

As one of the basic requirements of immigration law, it is well known that students applying for studying in Australia must meet Australian health standards at the visa stage. However, many applicants are concerned about who needs a medical examination, what diseases may adversely affect the applicants, and how immigration officials decide whether to issue visas. Let's introduce it in detail below.

In view of Australia's non-discriminatory immigration policy, medical examination requirements apply to applicants from all countries. Unless there are special circumstances, if the applicant fails to meet the medical examination requirements, according to the provisions of the immigration law, the application must be rejected.

Generally speaking, people who intend to stay in Australia for more than 12 months need physical examination. If the visa application is less than 12 months, the immigration officer will decide whether a medical examination is needed according to the impact of the applicant's health on his work or others. If the applicant's work or study environment involves schools, hospitals, medical care, food processing, catering, hotels or pharmacies, a comprehensive physical examination is generally required regardless of the visa duration.

Common diseases: The most common disease that has a great influence on the application for studying abroad is tuberculosis. Applicants for studying abroad need to have an X-ray examination to determine whether they have tuberculosis. If the X-ray shows tuberculosis (with calcified spots or calcified nodules), further examination is needed to determine whether it is active and whether it has been properly treated. In this process, the usual practice is to send the physical examination results back to the Australian headquarters for collective entrance examination. There are three kinds of results:

1. Those who are diagnosed as active after further examination or have not received proper treatment must be treated comprehensively.

2. For those who are diagnosed as inactive or treated properly, the Immigration Bureau will generally release them after the applicant signs a letter of guarantee for regular inspection. This process takes 1 month.

3. It has been confirmed that he has fully recovered. This process takes 1 month.

Because Chinese mainland is classified by Australia? Tuberculosis? High incidence areas, so all the physical examination reports of applicants with calcified spots or calcified nodules in X-rays will be sent to the Australian headquarters for joint examination, and applicants need not worry.

Physical examination will generally be conducted in the country where the applicant is located, and the hospital designated by the Immigration Bureau will be responsible for the examination. For most applicants, physical examination is time-consuming and expensive, which will bring a lot of inconvenience to applicants and their families. Therefore, the Immigration Bureau will generally ask for a medical examination after confirming that the applicant meets other legal standards first. However, in some cases, especially the application submitted in China, the applicant can also have a physical examination before submitting the application. Immigration officials may not approve the visa application unless they receive the medical examination results.

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