desperate2go

That was the meds done post yesterday so maybe- depends what she meant by just....

worzel

As far as I am aware you won't fail a medical because of a BMI of 30+ but like blood pressure of 140/100 (I think) it will probably mean a category B referral to a doctor in Sydney and he is likely to order you to do extra tests to see if there is anything serious underlying it.

spalen

I put a big post on here about BMI but I cant find it immediately.

Someone posted DIMIA's guidelines (apparently!) and they said BMI up to 35 was ok , even up to 40 was still possible to get Category A Medical.

They dont record Category B on BMI alone under 40, they look for the secondary impact of that BMI on your body... like blood pressure, diabetes, heart, etc. So if your'e generaly well and bmi 30-35 youll be fine. Even 35-40 you're ok.

Everybody, but everybody worries about the medicals... but unless you're really ill or have a complex medical complaint that costs lots to treat you''re seriously unlikely to get a problem.

desperate2go

What is category A & B

renth

Extra work experiece in the field I was applying under. When I said "a few years later" it was in fact about 6 or 7. This gave me enough experience to join the Brtish Computer Society as a full professional member meaning a positive skills assessment from the ACS.

TheRossers

For our application my skills are not being assessed, but what I'm interested to know is does BCS membership give you an easier ride through the process. I am an IBM AS/400 Technical support specialist (I know not many people know what an AS/400 is) and as my skill didn't 'fit' their assessment criteria I was turned down
I was going to apply for BCS membership but didn't see the point if I was going to Australia.

renth

You need to look a the ACS web site for the latest info because the BCS levels of membership have changed recently and the ACS have also changed their requirements as to what level of membership is acceptable.

http://www.acs.org.au/

It used to be that Associate level membershp (AMBCS) of the BCS (which is now called Member level - MBCS) was acceptable for a pass, Its not the case now:

"(Professional Membership of the British Computer Society at Fellow or Chartered level will be accepted up to the 31st of January 2005 at the fee of $100.00AUD)"

It looks like after 31st Jan no level of BCS membership is acceptable, but you need to look in to this in more detail.

Merlot

With reading the costs, it is truly a labour of love getting to Australia! :scared:

Phew!!!!! Good luck to those giving it a shot.

M

snappy

Category A is if there is nothing wrong or for them to worry about. Category B is if you have or had some medical history. If you do go down as a Category B our panel doctor said still don't worry about it as approx 96% still get their visa's.

It is just purely a way of them checking over how much you will cost the system once you move out there. So if you're a Category B then they will look at your medical in more detail.

Out of 4 of us 2 of us were a category B and we managed to get our visa's. I would say they were delayed slightly compared to others by about 2 weeks but I suppose it depends on how complicated your medical history actually is.

Sasha

mandi248

Thanks phew, I should be ok then as I think everything else is ok, my blood pressure is normal and I'm fairly fit.

mlbonner

Yep, don't worry. If your medical issue is serious enough to for the DIMIA to turn you down, then usually your health would be your concern, not the visa!

teach

Hiya
We have spent just over 3k for de-facto 136 skilled ind. I did NOOSR myself but we did have to use an agent for main visa (mad ex wife) and poor Andrew (diabetic) had to see 3 specialists at a cost of over £400 to say that he was medically fit. Hopefully we will be lodging our bond later next week as mortgage co have just agreed to a further advance for our holiday home, lol. Fingers crossed that next stage goes well for you.
Regards
Sarah

teach

The doctor told me he had a weak positive for HIV in his blood test :scared: I do have to say though it was a relief as I knew if he said cancer then there was nothing we could do about it but knowing you have to catch HIV I knew there was no chance. He went back the following morning and had another blood test which they rushed through and we had the results by lunchtime ....everything was OK.

Apparently it is quite common that sometimes you may get a faulty test and it shows you as a weak positive. Someone I know out in Oz applying was actualyll pre warned about this when they went for their medicals but they don't warn you over here.

So before you go stabbing your hubbie or divorcing him just wait until the 2nd test result comes back


Sasha [/QUOTE]

Hiya Sashsa,
Our doctor at 4 Elms discussed all this with us before taking the bloods and even charged us a councelling fee. I thought at the time that it was a bit of a cheek but when I read your post, I'm glad they did this. It would have prepared us for news like you had. Glad it was all just a faulty test.
Sarah

JackTheLad

I think the main reason why we read about so few failures for visas on this forum is, if you are on this site, you know how to use the web, and presumably the dimia website. Therefore you won't apply if you know you won't make the points.

Only people who don't have web access, or don't understand the dimia website rules will fail. The others just won't apply if they know they'll fail. So most of the stuff we hear here is the fairly confident waiting people, just the odd panic about medicals, or police checks etc.

It does make you wonder how it worked back in the early 90's. I can't remember any more how I used to find out stuff

Oh and in case the above sounds a bit smug. We didn't discover *this* website until Mrs JTL had done all the hard work getting us or visas. We did know about the dimia website thank god,

Cheers,
JTL

renth

I think the main thing that can catch people out is if they are relying on MODL points and the profession is taken off the MODL between submitting the application and it being processed. This is assessed at th time of processing and not lodgement, like age.

Fortunately all MODL professions are now being fast tracked