ALLAN WERNICK：某些传染病不能阻止申请人获得学生签证和绿卡

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ALLAN WERNICK: Certain communicable diseases can’t bar applicants from getting student visas and green cards
By Allan Wernick
New York Daily News |
Aug 06, 2019 | 7:00 AM
ALLAN WERNICK: Certain communicable diseases can’t bar applicants from getting student visas and green cards
Testing positive for Hepatitis B won’t keep you from getting a student visa. Nor will it keep you from getting an immigrant visa (green card) should you ever qualify. (Getty Images/iStock)

Q. I have the hepatitis B virus in my blood. Will that keep me from getting an F-1 student visa so I can study in the United States?

Ahmad, Afghanistan

A. No. Your testing positive for hepatitis B won’t keep you from getting a student visa. Nor will it keep you from getting an immigrant visa (green card) should you ever qualify.

Applicants for student visas, visitors’ visas, temporary work visas and other nonimmigrant visas usually are not tested for communicable diseases. In any event, having tested hepatitis B-positive is not a bar to getting a visa or entering the United States. The bar for communicable diseases for green card applicants applies only to diseases of “public health significance.” That includes chancroid, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, infectious syphilis and active tuberculosis.

Testing HIV-positive is no longer a medical bar to permanent residence. Applicants with curable diseases such as tuberculosis or syphilis can become permanent residents once they are no longer contagious.
ALLAN WERNICK：某些传染病不能阻止申请人获得学生签证和绿卡
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ALLAN WERNICK：某些传染病不能阻止申请人获得学生签证和绿卡
对乙型肝炎检测呈阳性不会使您无法获得学生签证。如果你有资格，它也不会阻止你获得移民签证（绿卡）。 （Getty Images / iStock）

问：我的血液中含有乙型肝炎病毒。这会阻止我获得F-1学生签证，这样我就可以在美国学习吗？

艾哈迈德，阿富汗

答：不会。您对乙型肝炎的检测阳性不会使您无法获得学生签证。如果你有资格，它也不会阻止你获得移民签证（绿卡）。

学生签证，访客签证，临时工作签证和其他非移民签证的申请人通常不会接受传染病检测。无论如何，检测乙型肝炎阳性并不是获得签证或进入美国的障碍。绿卡申请人的传染病障碍仅适用于具有“公共卫生意义”的疾病，包括软下,,淋病，传染性麻风，传染性梅毒和活动性肺结核。

检测艾滋病毒阳性不再是永久居留的医疗保障。患有可治愈疾病（如肺结核或梅毒）的申请人一旦不再具有传染性，就可以成为永久居民。