Does it usually take a long time for the medical examination of studying in Australia?

It is known that studying in Australia must meet one of the basic requirements of Australian immigration law, and applicants must meet Australian health standards. 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. In this regard, the Australian Education Union will introduce the medical examination process for applying for an Australian study visa as follows.

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.

Because you can be roughly divided into three categories:

Permanent residence visa, temporary residence visa, bridge visa. Different types of visas have different requirements for physical examination. All immigration applicants (that is, permanent residence visas) need a physical examination to meet the basic requirements of the immigration law. The applicant's immediate family members, including those dependent family members who do not intend to emigrate, must also undergo a medical examination.

Whether a temporary visa applicant needs a medical examination depends on his visa type and the length of time to apply for a visa.

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. As for the bridge visa, there is no physical examination problem because it is generally not necessary to apply separately.

All applicants for permanent resident visas and most temporary visas, if they are over 16 years old, need to undergo 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. confirm that you have fully recovered. This process takes 1 month.

As Chinese mainland is listed as a high incidence area of tuberculosis in Australia, all applicants with calcified spots or calcified nodules in X-ray findings will be sent to the Australian headquarters for joint examination, so applicants need not worry.

For those who have been diagnosed with hepatitis B, the Immigration Bureau will generally not refuse their application, but refer to the practice of tuberculosis and release them after the applicant signs a regular guarantee. The examination is generally carried out by blood test, and HIV blood test is generally not carried out when studying abroad. All applicants who are permanent residents of 16 years old or older must undergo a blood test, and applicants who adopt 16 years old or have a history of blood transfusion also need to undergo a physical examination.

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.

In addition to the description of the medical examination process for studying in Australia, in some cases, although the applicant's physical condition will not pose a threat to the health and safety of others, if the treatment of the disease will bring great economic burden to the community or affect the use of relevant medical equipment by Australians, the relevant immigration application may still be rejected.