Midweek Memes

The Consequences of Corruption

Happy Wednesday and greetings from rainy Bangkok! Me and my husband have been travelling and getting a few things done here on our birthdays, as it were. The police wanted to review something at the Police Clearance Center in Bangkok, but that appears to be finally on the way. We’re back to needing a good doctor again. Or perhaps a good immigration lawyer?

Here’s how the immigration process has gone on that so far. Last November they refused to do the panel physician check in Bangkok on account of my husband having not received Covid vaccines beforehand. Interestingly enough they don’t even do Covid jabs there, but they must be done beforehand somewhere else. Is that a liability thing?

A quick google search for Covid vaccines Bangkok reveals that every.single.search result is dated from either 2021 or early 2022, though a few have the current date listed on their website. So even if I was a Paul type who was gung ho on getting the newest version of the jabs the top search results are completely and utterly useless. They got in front of the Internet and turned it into a gilded cage.

Another question is if any vaccine or medical procedure done during the panel physician check causes injury, as I believe happened to my first husband, is there a way to sue USCIS for it?

I could not do a waiver of inadmissibility, a three year long lawfare process anyways, until my husband “failed” his panel physician check by refusing vaccines. But they wouldn’t do the panel physician check at all until he had the Covid jabs. The hospital told me to talk to USCIS and USCIS told me to talk to the hospital. On both sides there was an unaccountable shell game. They need you, dear citizen, to always and forever take the hit and comply.

Here’s what Boundless immigration explained about the panel physician check. I’m bolding the term relative for a reason: this procedure is not required for tourist visa, student visa, work visa, clergy, NGO, investment or most other visa classes. They do this to relatives like spouses and children of US citizens, those who ironically often have the most compelling reasons to come to America. It’s almost like they’re trying to break families apart to force compliance.

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“The Immigration Medical Exam, Explained

What to expect and how to prepare for the green card medical exam

The green card medical examination is an important step of the immigration process and is required for most green card applicants. The exam must be completed by a government-authorized doctor (also known as a civil surgeon). In the immigration medical exam, you can expect:

• A review of your medical history and immunization (vaccine) records

• A physical and mental evaluation

• Drug and alcohol screening

• Tests for various diseases and illnesses (sometimes including an X-ray)

The purpose of the green card medical exam is to ensure that the relative seeking a green card has no health condition that could make them “inadmissible” to the United States — meaning they’re ineligible to receive a green card.

Vaccination screening

The doctor is required to make sure that you’ve received all required vaccines. If you’re missing any, you’ll be required to obtain these before you attend your green card interview, but the doctor should be able to provide these vaccines during your medical exam.

Important:

USCIS now requires green card applicants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 when attending the medical exam. Learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine requirements when immigrating.

How Do They Decide Which Vaccines are Required for Immigration Purposes?

Some of the vaccines that are required are specifically listed in the Immigration and Nationality Act. These include mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus and diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, haemophilius influenza type B, and hepatitis B.

In addition to these, the statute also requires that an individual receive any other vaccinations recommended by the ACIP. CDC uses the following criteria in determining which of these recommended vaccines should be required for immigration purposes:

• The vaccine must be age-appropriate as recommended by the ACIP for the general U.S. population, and

• At least one of the following:

  • The vaccine must protect against a disease that has the potential to cause an outbreak; or

  • The vaccine must protect against a disease eliminated in the United States, or is in the process of being eliminated in the United States.

Health-Related Reasons for Denial (Of Ability to Join Family Members in the United States)

During the exam, the doctor’s job is to make sure that the relative seeking a green card doesn’t pose a health threat to current residents of the United States.

The main health-related reasons why a person might be denied a green card include the following:

Communicable diseases: If you have active, untreated, and infectious gonorrhea, leprosy, syphilis, or tuberculosis, you will be unable to get a green card until the disease has been treated and/or cured.

Due to some lobbying, incidentally, HIV positive status is NOT grounds for inadmissability.

Drug and alcohol abuse: If you have a history of drug abuse, you might be asked to take a drug test and/or certify that you have completed a drug treatment program. If you’re currently abusing prescription drugs, illegal drugs, or alcohol, you will not be allowed to get a green card.

Mental illness with a history or threat of violence: If you have a mental illness that has caused you to be violent in the past or is associated with violence, either against yourself or others, you may have trouble getting a green card. According to USCIS policy, drunk driving falls into this category.

Inability to work: If your health is so poor that you won’t be able to support yourself financially, you could be denied a green card based on your likelihood of becoming a “public charge,” basically a person who has depended, or is likely to depend at any time in the future, on government benefits. This is likely the case for people with serious degenerative or fatal diseases.”

Boundless Immigration did not mention that a significant reason for health denial is also refusal of vaccines. Most of the reasons for inadmissibility on this list require significant discretion and interpretation by the panel physician. It sort of grants them near Godlike power over the future of your family. For example Ka likes to drink and will never pass up free booze if it is offered by a friend, say. That said he has been more or less a weekend warrior about it and has been working very long hot days in the sun. During 2021, 2022, and even early 2023 he could not work any regular job due to Covid vaccine mandates in Thailand. Does that count as “inability to work?”

Going further down the rabbit hole Ka has or had epilepsy: periodic grand mal (the highest grade) seizures in which he loses all voluntary control of his body. This related supposedly to a brain injury in a motorbike accident a few decades ago. Now he was under medical treatment for his condition in 2019, say. The two different types of pills that I saw prescribed for his epilepsy were completely useless: one might have worked but the side effects were terrible with him sleeping 12-13 hours per day and being a zombie when he was awake. The second less strong one was better tolerated, but then he had two seizures in a day while taking it anyways. I told him to stop taking that crap after that. My husband’s condition now seems to have miraculously healed perhaps because my brain waves and his have synched during sleep. He’s only had one grand mal seizure in almost three years. But does that mean that Ka is refusing medical care for his condition?

Perusing the actual vaccine exemptions on the panel physician website is likewise near useless. They give some weight to medical contraindication to vaccine requirements, but it’s granted on a vaccine by vaccine basis and has been tightened to the point that, unless you get a sympathetic doctor who is also putting his or her neck on the line by granting an exemption, the only medical exemption that seems to grant a waiver to all future vaccines is already being dead from a prior vaccine. Bribery looks like the name of the game.

Is anyone else noticing that these requirements are also unusually strict considering the flow over the Southern border? People who come in on temporary visas including tourist, work and student visas are also not subject to this medical check. They have plenty of laws on the books already to bury anyone they want to.

All of this corruption seems to lead to one place: an essentially lawless free for all where might (money) makes right, where they can kill you for any reason they can come up with or none whatsoever and where the lawless borg will never ever ever be held accountable. Notice how much emphasis is placed on the person being able to work after entering the United States. How many jobs would actually be left if it wasn’t for the borg?

Now for some memes as I sort this out. The four year anniversary period is ongoing, when governments of the world unleashed a totalitarian dystopian hellhole in order to make people so miserable that they complied with their other dictates:

There’s a lot of truth to this. When I first came to Thailand they were always toning down the spiciness of my food, which drove me crazy. What do you think I am, British? It’s like your peppers came from Mexico and are a main ingredient in US Tabasco, which is nowhere near spicy enough for me. I’m okay stop giving me nursing home food!

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