Contributory Parent Visa Medical checks 79

zrules

HI Zrules

Slow down a little, my friend. At this stage, I would focus on getting the application itself ready (read the checklist 20 times and then read it again!) With Mum's, I was busy putting all the papers into the bundle, to post half an hour later on a Saturday morning, when I suddenly saw - for the first time - thay they wanted evidence of where I live as well. How I had missed that bit up until then, I'll never know! I had not had my pbuttport copied and certified, and there was no time to do it on a Saturday morning with the post office about to shut at midday. I made an Executive Decision - viz, "This is nit-picking nonsense. I've said in the covering letter that I live in the UK so that will have to suffice for the time being. I they really must have copies of my pbuttport and utility bills, they can ask for them later!" Since I live in the UK where we do not have idenbreasty cards, the utility bills are the only way I can think of to prove that I live in the UK (plus my payslips and tax returns, I suppose.) My pbuttport only proves that I am British. It doesn't prove where I am.

With regard to the medical stuff, I wouldn't obtain anything at this stage apart from what your parents can get from their own GP. The GP will be able to supply copies of the stuff supplied by the hospital and the cardiologist about your father's angioplasty. Don't be tempted to pre-empt what the MOC might require, because it could prove to have been a waste of money and effort. The MOC might be content with what your father's GP can already supply.

The other thing that you might find useful is to identify the Panel Doctor who will be doing the meds and ask for a time when you can speak to the PD yourself over the phone. Explain the medical history, describe the documents that you have buttembled, and ask the PD whether anything more is likely to be required.

With doctors, you can drop hints about what you hope they might include in their reports (your father's daily walk, the fact that he can read perfectly well etc) but you cannot tell them what to say. The MOC isn't really interested in your father's daily habits either. The MOC is interested in the doctor to doctor medical jargon about his medical condition.

You will have plenty of time to consider the medical stuff after the application goes in. So my firm advice to you is to take things one step at a time. Sanjay's position is a bit different because his father's angioplasty was done less than a year ago, so there will be recent cardiologist's reports about Sanjay's father and the MOC is likely to insist on being furnished with copies of them because the procedure was done quite recently. Where the angioplasty was done a while back and has caused no problems since, the MOC might treat that as being in the past, working well, so Job Done. Ditto the glaucoma 10 years ago.

Having been though all this myself recently, I would definitely recommend making the application itself the priority at this stage, with the medical stuff to be done later. The POPC seems to have slowed to a crawl on the processing time for Contributory Parents, so unless they buck up, you are going to have several months in which to prepare for the Meds. I would firmly advise AGAINST frontloading the meds, because of the slow time-line at the POPC at present.

Hope this helps

Gill