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What to put in the DS-260 about vaccinations?

Key answer

Do not answer 'no' here: if you will have vaccination records by the interview, answer 'yes' and get the missing shots. The practical route: buy an international vaccination certificate with an English title on the cover, bring it with all your childhood records to your clinic, get the missing vaccines and ask them to consolidate everything into one certificate certified with stamps and signatures. Old records sometimes turn up unexpectedly - for example in a school document packet your parents kept.

Community answers

The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

  • If at the time of the interview you have vaccination documents, then perhaps you can select 'yes.' In any case, it is not advisable to select 'no': either select 'yes' or go get the missing vaccinations.

  • The steps are as follows: purchase an international vaccination certificate (it is inexpensive; it should state 'certificate of vaccinations' in English on the cover, as the medical examination in another country and the conclusion will also include information on vaccinations). With this certificate and all the children's vaccination records, go to the clinic you are attached to and get the missing vaccines. Then ask to have all vaccinations compiled into a new certificate, stamped and signed.

  • My vaccination story is almost unbelievable. We were at school, at three clinics, and nothing could be found anywhere. Then I had the last hypothesis: before school, I obtained an extract from the vaccination card - and voilà, my mother had my document package for school from 1990 along with the vaccinations. If it weren't for this green card, I would never have known that I had it.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

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