USCIS Civil Surgeon & Immigration Medical Exams Serving Passaic, NJ

Serving Passaic

Immigration Medical Exams for Passaic Residents

Passaic is one of our closest neighboring communities — just 3 miles and 10 minutes from our door. With one of the highest concentrations of immigrant residents in Passaic County, the city has a large population of families from Mexico, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and other Latin American nations who need USCIS Civil Surgeon services.

For Passaic residents, our Clifton office is essentially in your backyard. Dr. Emmanuel M. Weiss is the trusted USCIS-designated Civil Surgeon serving the Passaic community with complete I-693 immigration medical exams at a flat rate of $599 for the exam and all required lab work — no outside lab referrals, and no separate lab bill.

We understand that many Passaic families are navigating the immigration process for the first time. Our bilingual staff speaks both English and Spanish, and we'll walk you through every step of the exam. Most visits take just 30 minutes, and your sealed I-693 form is ready within 5–7 business days.

What to Expect During the Appointment

There is no reason to be nervous about this exam — it is a public-health screening, not a test you can fail on the basis of a treatable condition. After reviewing your identification and vaccination history, Dr. Weiss carries out the physical assessment USCIS specifies, covering general health, vision and hearing, heart and lungs, abdomen, skin and neurological function. We handle the blood draw, urine collection and tuberculosis screening in-house during the same visit, so Passaic patients are not sent elsewhere for lab work. The in-office portion generally runs about thirty minutes.

What You'll Need to Bring

Come with an unexpired government-issued photo ID, such as your passport or driver's license, and every vaccination record you can find — records in any language are useful, and partial records still help. Documentation of past tuberculosis testing or treatment matters if it applies to you, as does a list of the medications you take. Should you already have Form I-693 printed, bring it unsigned, because the form must be signed in the presence of the civil surgeon. If it would make the visit easier, bring an interpreter or a family member along.

When to Schedule Around Your Filing Date

The rules on how long a completed I-693 remains usable changed recently, and a great deal of published advice is now out of date. For any form a civil surgeon signs on or after November 1, 2023, USCIS no longer applies a fixed calendar expiration — but under policy effective June 11, 2025, that form is valid only for the specific application it was submitted with. It cannot be carried across to a later filing, so if an application is denied or withdrawn, a fresh medical exam is required. (Forms signed before November 1, 2023 keep the older two-year window.) For Passaic applicants the practical advice is simple: complete the exam in step with your filing rather than long in advance of it.

We are roughly 3 miles from Passaic, about a 10 minutes drive, at 842 Clifton Ave — close enough that most Passaic County applicants can complete the visit around a work schedule. You can read more about the required tests, vaccinations and paperwork in our exam FAQ, or go straight to scheduling your exam. Next-day appointments are routinely available — you can book online in about sixty seconds, or call (855) 755-1312 if you have questions. Patients also come to us from Garfield, Paterson and Clifton.

What a Mistake on Form I-693 Actually Costs

Passaic families file in large numbers every year, and we see the consequences of a rushed exam often enough to take it seriously. In our experience, very few I-693s are sent back for medical reasons. They are rejected because a signature is missing, the dates do not line up, the tuberculosis classification is incomplete, the vaccination section is blank, a required test for the applicant's age was never run, a positive TB screen arrived without the required chest x-ray, the form was a superseded edition, or the sealed envelope had been opened. Each of those triggers a Request for Evidence, and each one adds months while you go back to the civil surgeon. Under the policy in force since June 2025 a completed form is tied to the single application it was filed with, so if that case fails you buy the exam again from scratch. For Passaic applicants that is the number worth comparing — not the difference between one clinic's price and another's.

It is also what immigration attorneys care about most. An attorney has usually spent months assembling a filing, and the medical exam is one of the few pieces they hand to someone outside their office — so what they care about is that the sealed form comes back complete, consistent and on the current edition, without generating an RFE that delays everything else. Dr. Weiss has been in practice for more than 40 years, in an office where immigration work is the practice rather than a service offered between others. If your attorney has timing requirements or wants the form delivered a particular way, tell us when you book and we will work to their instructions.

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.