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Nope...but I imagine the rate isn't very good.. I had a look into other travel cards (commbank/velocity) and they were only giving around 0.77USD per 1AUD...

I have the 28 Degrees card and plan to use it as much as we can for purchases.... the only tough thing will be needing cash for a rental deposit/rent up front & quite a large amount of $ for my husband to buy a car as well :/ (my credit limit is very low!)

Congrats! :D :D See you in LA!! (as long as we get approved :P )

So how do you access that US money now? Do you transfer it to a US account or have to withdraw the cash in Australia ?

How stressful for you! I can't believe they forgot such vital documents and made such a mess of it all! It makes it a bit worrying for the rest of us too - you'd imagine that they would know what they were going! Glad it's all over for you now though and you're officially a PR! Congrats ! :D

We were considering doing this.... what sort of rate did you get/what fees are associated?

So we just got our medicals back and they're not sealed :/ Only the vaccination records are sealed in a smaller envelope...which she said we give to customs when we enter the US. Anyone else had this from the Melbourne Medibank?

I think they might have been in swanston and then moved to Williams st (medibank health services ) ? It's right near flagstaff station. Then you have to walk up to collins st near swanston to get the X-rays! There is a doc in port melbourne you can go to but it wasn't practical for us to get there.

The wait is tough, but you will get your interview :) You definitely haven't ruined your chances!! :)

Weird! Mine has it clearly on the receipt that's how I figured it out :p

You get a stack of forms to fill out - one which has a bunch of yes no questions about general health and medical history, one is the tuberculosis one that goes to the xray people to fill in and the other is the vaccination form. In the actual medical, first they took a blood sample and took...

Just had my medical in Melbourne - was scheduled for 905am and 2+ hours was spent waiting around :/ I don't get why appointment times are made if they don't really stick to them :p Just need to get the X-ray now. Also, for anyone interested the Medibank website lists the price as $471.60 but...

You can also try emailing them at Medical_melbourne@medibank.com.au when I called them to make my appointment at the start of the month they advised me to email our names, DOB, what the medical was for and when we wanted it to that address and they confirmed it same day.

Hi there! Wait till you have your interview date confirmed, and then book in, keeping in mind your medical generally has 6 mths validity from issue and has to be valid when you enter the US... so you don't want to do it too early if you plan to wait a bit before heading over to activate your...

So yours had a white border around them too that made them larger than 2x2 inches? I"m just worried they won't accept them at the interview or something!

Nope its 2 x 2 inches (51 x 51 mm) in size. I emailed the medical place and they recommended using US ones as its for a US visa. and we will need it for our interview as well so will just use the same set. I'll trim them down then just to be sure. :)

I just got my photos taken for the visa/medical and the photo itself is the right size 2 x 2 inches...but they haven't trimmed them exactly to that, there's a white border :/ Should i trim them myself? I went to one of the travel.state.gov suggested photo places too.

You don't need to get a police check from the US if you've lived there before, as they will already have access to check your record. It's only if you've lived in other countries :) And obviously you need the Australian police check as well.

Welcome!! I am unsure about whether you will have to get an Australian medical... Britsimon or one of the moderators may be able to answer that though :) They know everything ;) When did you submit your DS260? Do you know if it has finished processing? Also..you can search this thread for...

My husband is a software engineer so we imagine he will be able to get work pretty easily too! :)