USCIS Civil Surgeon & Immigration Medical Exams Serving Totowa, NJ

Serving Totowa

Immigration Medical Exams for Totowa Residents

Totowa is one of our closest neighbors — sharing a border with Clifton and just 3 miles from our office. This Passaic County borough has a tight-knit community that includes families from Italy, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, many of whom are navigating immigration processes.

For Totowa residents, getting your I-693 immigration medical exam is as convenient as it gets. A 10-minute drive brings you to Dr. Emmanuel M. Weiss, a board-certified physician and USCIS-designated Civil Surgeon with over 40 years of medical experience. Your complete exam — physical, labs, bloodwork, TB test, and vaccination review — is done in about 30 minutes.

Our flat $599 fee covers the exam and all required lab work — no outside lab referrals, no separate lab bill, no second appointment. Any vaccines USCIS requires are billed separately, and we tell you what you need before anything is given. Your sealed I-693 form is ready for pickup within 5–7 business days. Call (855) 755-1312 or schedule online today.

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 Totowa, time your exam to your filing rather than getting ahead of it.

The drive from Totowa is about 10 minutes and roughly 3 miles, which keeps the whole appointment manageable for Passaic 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 Wayne, Paterson and Fair Lawn.

Accuracy Is the Whole Point

Totowa is close enough that patients sometimes assume convenience is the reason to come here. It isn't. 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. Totowa applicants are not buying thirty minutes of a doctor's time; they are buying a document that clears on the first submission.

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.