alagnak
American expat in the United Arab Emirates
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3
About me
American
Lives in The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai
Registration: 02 June 2014
My expat journey
The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Warrenton, Virginia, USA
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Medical tests for work visa - filariasis by alagnak
The embassy needs a lab result stating negative for filariasis, but I cant find a lab here in the US that does the right test. Has anyone else had this problem? If you have applied for a work visa recently please let me know where you got the ...
Thanks for the follow-up, we emailed the embassy yesterday to let them know how much trouble we were having and they emailed back this morning that they would accept the IGG4 test, so we are good to go. I found out today that the ICT test isn't ... Read More
Medical tests for work visa - filariasis by alagnak
The embassy needs a lab result stating negative for filariasis, but I cant find a lab here in the US that does the right test. Has anyone else had this problem? If you have applied for a work visa recently please let me know where you got the ...
I cant understand it either, we've talked to a GP, a few major hospital centers (including Georgetown), two major testing companies (Labcorp and Quest Diagnostics). No-one does what the embassy require, which is the (ICT) Imunochromatographic ... Read More
Medical tests for work visa - filariasis
The embassy needs a lab result stating negative for filariasis, but I cant find a lab here in the US that does the right test. Has anyone else had this problem? If you have applied for a work visa recently please let me know where you got the ... Read More