Immigration Medical

Tomorrow we, Joka-Marco-Joost-Emma, will go for our immigration medical. We do not have the go-ahead from the embassy, unfortunately. But as Joost is here I took the educated risk to go for the medical. Probably it is much cheaper over here and the 4 of us can have it done in one go. No scattered files, from Canada and Holland. Practical thinking. We have been told to take the medical prematurely to speed up the process a little, still we are waiting almost for 3 years. It is valid for a pretty long time, so we should be good to go. Blood-testing, chest X-ray and a lot of questions most likely. No problem getting an appointment, call today and 2 days later you could go. Only downside about this medical is you could run into a problem, which duplicates itself on discovery. But like Donald Sutherland says in "Dirty Dozen" as the always stoned tank-commander: "Positive Waves, man!"

12-23-2009: It took 2 hours to complete. All balls, the four pairs of them, have been inspected and approved. A lot of questions and a summarization of your hospitalizations later we were sent to the lab for blood-samples and the chest X-ray. All in all it set us back $1500, but we are done and if all goes as planned we have shortened the wait with 2 months. And that was my intention.