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Hepatitis B

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Dear All,

I am 2014 winner, and I just found out that am Hepatitis B positive. Right now I am living in my home country, but I have lived in the States for several years before as a student, and I also have two children who were born in the States. I don't have any immigration violation or criminal record. But I am Hepatitis B positive.

So my question is this: Will this Hepatitis B effect my approval for visa?

I have tried to find information on this matter, but noting. If you know any official answers on this please share the links on this post.

Thank you so much for your time. I believe there are others who are searching for similar information on this forum.
 
If you found out that you are HB positive, you might want to look for treatment ASAP before thinking about immigration issues. You did not mention anything about treatment. HB is a serious health matter and you don't want to put yourself into trouble.
For what I know for tuberculosis, you need to be treated for 6 months and have a test that demonstrate that you are cured before the visa is granted. Since you are a DV 2014 winner, I think you have plenty of time to be on medication that will demonstrate later that you are out of risk for yourself and others.

Hope you recover soon!!!
 
Thank you for your thoughts, I have started taking necessary medications, and at the moment I have no health issues or liver damage from Hepatitis B. But I just worried if this will affect my visa.
 
You should begin a course of treatment right away and inform your panel doctor at the time of your medical exam that you tested positive, also inform him of the course of action, as in treatment, taken up to date.

INA 212 states that Aliens with communicable disease of public health significance are inadmissible:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.f6da51a2342135be7e9d7a10e0dc91a0/?vgnextoid=fa7e539dc4bed010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=fa7e539dc4bed010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&CH=act

Hepatitis B does not fall within the category of communicable disease of public health significance, so you should be ok as long as you can show evidence of it being treated:

http://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/exams/diseases-vaccines-included.html#comm
 
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