Hi Barbitana,
I'm not sure if you're referring to the working holiday maker visa or to the work and holiday visa.
Some WHMV applicants do not require a medical at all from what I recall.
In short - the medical requirements for temporary entry to Australia are different to permanent entry. In practise, the main difference is in the blood tests required but depending on your occupation-proposed activities in Australia a medical for temporary entry may require MORE testing than most people's permanent entry medicals.
I applied for a WHM visa in September 2005 and because of my occupation needed to have medical, CXR, hep B, hep C and HIV blood tests. I then applied for a permanent visa (136) 3 months later and my medical was accepted without any issue.
But recently there have been people on this forum whose recent medicals for their temporary visa (working in healthcare so they've had all the extra blood tests) have NOT been accepted for their permanent visa application a few months later. It would seem that DIMA are becoming stricter about this.
The doctor will not issue 2 sets of results and shouldn't need to as all the results are held centrally by DIMA.
Basically you could have the medical done for your PR visa and this should therefore be accepted for your temporary visa application. This would be safer than the other way round as the poster above has said.
Are you applying for 2 visas at the same time?
Madhu
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