CONFIDENTIAL
27.
CH MAMINATIONS
Applicants for special vouchers may be required to submit to a medical examination by a doctor nominated or approved by the post. a special voucher application should not be rejected on medical grounds (but see paragraph 28 below), but where the examination reveals that the applicant is suffering from a communicable disense fatich as leprosy or tuberculosis) the issue of the voucher may be deferred (and the applicant advised to take an approved course of treatment) until such time as he has been declared free of infection by the medicul referee. All cases where it is proposed to defer the issue of a voucher on medical grounds should be referred to the Iome office giving full details of the illness and its prognosis and enclosing the medical referee's report.
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3. A second purpose of the medical examination is to assist in determining whether or not an applicant can be considered a head of household and thus eligible to receive a voucher (see paragraph 10).
It should be noted that a voucher holder's wife and dependant children under 18 may not be refused entry (or entry clearance) on medical grounds (paragraph 72 of C-394). Dependent children over 18 and dependent relatives otherwise eligible to benefit from the unpublished concessions to UP!! are not exermt from refusal on medical grounds. But all cases where it is proposed to refuse or defer entry clearance should first be referred to the Home Office as in paragraph 27 above).
OPERATING A SPECIAL VOUCHER QUEUE
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Because the number of vouchers available annually is limited, a queue for vouchers may build up in countries where the demand
In such exceeds the supply. This is currently the case in India. circumstances applicants may have to wait several years before they receive a voucher.
Estimated waiting times:
32. Posts should not attempt to give an applicant an estimated
The waiting time date by which he may expect to receive a voucher. will depend upon such variable factors as the number of vouchers made available annually, the rate of fresh applications, and the
Estimates can, take-up rate among those who are offered vouchers. therefore, prove very misleading.
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