The Visa Medical (& what the Doctors tell you!) - Philippines to Australia Podcast

Applying for an Australian Partner Visa (spouse visa or fiancée visa) or a New Zealand Citizen’s Family Relationship Visa (Subclass 461) or a Child Visa from Philippines to Australia? You will need to do a Visa Medical examination. They can also request xray examinations or sometimes full medicals for tourist visas too if they think the applicant is a risk, especially if they are elderly, or going to visit schools or hospitals, or if they will be staying longer than three months.

https://www.downundervisa.com.au for Australian visas from Philippines.

https://www.assessments.downundervisa.com.au for a free online visa assessment form.

BLOG article: https://www.downundervisa.com.au/2018/12/visa-medical-doctors-nurses-tell/

This is because they don’t want anyone who doesn’t pass the health criteria entering Australia. They don’t want the expense or the drain on resources to affect Australia and Australian citizens.

You need to watch out for nurses and doctors at the panel doctors in Philippines giving you wrong information about how medicals are processed by the MOC (Medical Officer of the Commonwealth).

Jeff Harvie is a Registered Migration Agent with Down Under Visa, the premier Australian migration agency practice in Manila who specialise in partner visas, tourist visas and family visas for Australian Filipina couples. Jeff has had over 20 years experience with the Philippines and with Filipino culture especially as it relates to Australian culture.

Down Under Visa can help with onshore partner visas, offshore partner visas, prospective marriage visas, fiancee visas, spouse visas, de facto visas, tourist visas, visitor visas and Citizenship by Descent applications.