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Undergoing Health Examination – The Whole Story


Last updated on October 31st, 2019

It was almost a month since I made the payment for the visa application. The time was up for the next task on the list – going ahead with health examination. Many people online suggested to go for medicals once the CO is assigned but I didn’t want to wait that long. Besides, looking at the timeline and historical trend, I had only one month more until the CO was assigned. Of course, I was being optimistic, it could have very well taken more time than that. Thankfully it didn’t but more about that later.

Getting HAP ID and eMedical Referral Letters

Actually, there is a good reason why you should delay medicals and PCC until asked by CO. It’s because the earlier of the two will be your last entry date for a visa.

So if you do medicals on 15/07/2016, PCC on 18/08/2016 and got your visa on 01/06/2017, your last date of entry on the visa will be 15/07/2017, not 01/06/2018 as you might have expected. In other words, you have just 1 month to make the visa validation trip after you get the visa. :O

Now logically all that made sense. However, after reading about a few terrible experiences, especially regarding Indian PCC, I decided to finish both of them as early as possible.

Before you can go for health examination, you need to get eMedical referral letters for all the applicants. Every eMedical referral letter contains HAP ID which is a unique number given to each applicant who undergoes the health examination. Generating letters for all three of us was easy enough. On the immi website, I declared that I had no history of critical illnesses and downloaded the eMedical letters for the three of us.

Getting (Medically) Fit for Visa

Once the letters were printed, I checked the immi site for the list of panel physicians in my city – Pune. It was available at Ruby Hall Clinic in Pune. I checked with the hospital and they assured me that I don’t need to book an appointment for a health examination.

Next day, I walked into Ruby Hall with my wife and infant daughter. eMedical facility at Ruby Hall was complete chaos. Visa applicants for all the different countries amalgamated there in a single hall. Plus, there was no system to handle the crowd, so a lot of people were running around from one counter to different in confusion.

Amidst this chaos, after being turned down at a few wrong counters, we were told to go to an office near the radiology department. After waiting there for what seemed like forever, our turn came. I handed over the required documents – medical referral letters, passports, photocopies of passports and 2 passport size photos for all three of us – to the nurse. She verified documents, took our photos and asked us to see an optometrist first for the eye test.

Eye check was a quick one since neither of us had glasses, but if you do you should carry prescriptions.

Next, we did our chest x-rays. In the meanwhile, not to aggravate my baby daughter, I got her examination done when I got the chance. Thankfully it was just a general check-up. Kids don’t have to do x-rays, blood test or urine test. Simple and quick!

Next was a complete physical examination (height, weight, blood pressure etc). Just to scare me, my blood pressure jumped a little higher than normal. Luckily, the lady doctor there was quite considerate and assured me that it was perfectly normal. Finally, I did my blood and urine test which was quite uneventful.

The whole process took nearly half the day and cost us about INR 9000.

Since the hospital was going to share results directly with DIBP, all I could do was to pray that our way to Australia wouldn’t be blocked by our own bodies. In the next instalment, I will tell you how I got my PCC.


Moving To Australia Series

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  2. 10 Reasons Why I Chose Australia
  3. Which Work Visa Is Right For You?
  4. Should I Go With Migration Agent?
  5. Introduction To Skilled Visa Points System
  6. How To Prepare For Skills Assessment – Part 1
  7. How To Prepare For Skills Assessment – Part 2
  8. How To Clear IELTS In First Attempt – Part 1
  9. How To Clear IELTS In First Attempt – Part 2
  10. How To Clear IELTS In First Attempt – Part 3
  11. EOI – Express Your Desire To Migrate
  12. Getting Visa Invitation
  13. Lodging Visa Application And Making Visa Payment
  14. Getting Evidence of Functional English
  15. Undergoing Health Examination – The Whole Story
  16. Getting Indian PCC And The Road Ahead
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About Harsh

I am a software professional who was living a peaceful life in Pune, India. In 2014, an idea - to move out of India - struck me and with a bit of hard work and a lot of luck, I moved to the smallest continent in the world - Australia. Since then I continue to share my experiences here and try to help fellow mates get a strong footing in Australia. You can connect with me on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Thanks for reading!

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