USCIS Civil Surgeon & Immigration Medical Exams Serving Elizabeth, NJ

Serving Elizabeth

Immigration Medical Exams for Elizabeth Residents

Elizabeth is Union County's largest city and home to one of New Jersey's largest and most vibrant immigrant populations, particularly from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and West Africa. If you're an Elizabeth resident preparing your adjustment of status application, you'll need a USCIS-designated Civil Surgeon to complete your I-693 medical exam.

While the drive from Elizabeth to our Clifton office takes about 30 minutes via the Turnpike, the trip is well worth it. Dr. Emmanuel M. Weiss offers a complete I-693 exam for a flat $599 — with on-site blood tests, TB screening, syphilis and gonorrhea testing, physical examination, and a review of your vaccination records. Any vaccines you turn out to need are billed separately.

Many Elizabeth patients tell us they first looked for closer options, then found the quoted price did not cover everything the exam actually required. Our single-price, single-visit model is designed to remove that guesswork — your exam, your labs and your sealed I-693 are handled in one appointment.

Our bilingual English and Spanish-speaking staff ensures that every Elizabeth patient is understood and comfortable throughout their visit. Call us at (855) 755-1312 to book your appointment — next-day appointments are available — you can book online in about sixty seconds.

The Exam, Step by Step

Your visit follows the same sequence every time. Identification and immunization records are reviewed first. Dr. Weiss then completes the physical examination required for Form I-693 — general health, eyes and ears, heart and lungs, abdomen, skin, and a neurological check. Blood and urine samples are taken on-site for the mandatory laboratory tests, and tuberculosis screening is done during the same appointment. We close by confirming exactly which vaccinations USCIS requires for someone of your age, and which ones your existing records already satisfy. Plan on roughly thirty minutes in the office.

What to Bring With You

Bring an unexpired government-issued photo ID — a passport is ideal, though a driver's license is accepted. Bring every vaccination or immunization record you can locate, in any language; complete records frequently save patients from repeating vaccines they have already received. If you have ever had a positive tuberculosis test or been treated for TB, bring that documentation, and bring a list of any prescription medications you take. If you already have a printed Form I-693, bring it unsigned — USCIS requires that you sign it in the civil surgeon's presence. You are welcome to bring an interpreter or a family member.

How Long Your Sealed I-693 Stays Valid

This is the question we are asked most, and the answer is not what most websites still say. A Form I-693 signed on or after November 1, 2023 does not expire on a calendar date the way older forms did. Since June 11, 2025, however, USCIS treats the form as valid only for the application it accompanied — it cannot be reused for a different or future filing, and a denied or withdrawn case means starting the medical exam over. Forms signed before November 1, 2023 still follow the previous two-year rule. If you are applying from Elizabeth, time your exam to your filing rather than getting ahead of it.

The drive from Elizabeth is about 30 minutes and roughly 20 miles, which keeps the whole appointment manageable for Union County families — particularly when several people need exams on the same day. Our immigration medical exam FAQ answers the practical questions about tests, vaccines and validity, and online booking shows real availability. For deadline-driven filings, call (855) 755-1312 and we will tell you honestly what we can do. Nearby communities we serve include Newark, East Orange and Jersey City.

Accuracy Is the Whole Point

Elizabeth applicants travel a little further to reach us, and they do it for a specific reason. The paperwork is where immigration medical exams go wrong. A physician who is not USCIS-designated invalidates the exam outright. Beyond that, the recurring failures are mundane and entirely avoidable: an edition of the form USCIS no longer accepts, an unsigned or inconsistently dated document, an incomplete TB classification, a vaccination section left blank, a missing age-required test, a positive tuberculosis screen filed without its chest x-ray, or a broken seal on the envelope. Every one of them produces a Request for Evidence and pushes a case back by months — and since June 2025, because the form is valid only for the application it accompanied, a failed filing means a completely new exam rather than a reusable one. Elizabeth applicants are not buying thirty minutes of a doctor's time; they are buying a document that clears on the first submission.

It is the same thing immigration attorneys care about. The exam is one of the few components of a filing an attorney cannot control directly, so they refer to practices whose forms come back correct — complete, internally consistent, on the current edition, and sealed properly. Dr. Weiss brings more than 40 years of practice to that, and immigration exams are the core work of this office. We are glad to coordinate directly with your attorney's office on timing or delivery.

What's Included in Your $599 Exam

Your $599 covers the complete physical examination, all USCIS-required bloodwork and laboratory tests, TB screening, the STI testing required for your age, a review of your vaccination records, and your sealed I-693 form — ready for USCIS submission. Nothing is sent to an outside lab, so there is no separate lab bill. If USCIS requires vaccinations you have not already had, or an x-ray is needed, those are billed separately — we tell you exactly what is required and what it costs before anything is done.