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Table 4 Type of migrants that get screened

From: A comparative examination of tuberculosis immigration medical screening programs from selected countries with high immigration and low tuberculosis incidence rates

Country

Permanent residency application

Temporary residency application

 

Immigrant

Asylum seekers

Convention refugee

Visiting Students

Temporary Workers/Visitors

Specific

United States

+

+

+

--

--

--

Germany

+

+

-

--

--

--

France

+

+

+

> 3 months

> 3 months

--

Canada

+

+

+

> 6 months*

> 6 months*

Occupation†

United Kingdom

+

+

+

> 6 months

> 6 months

--

Australia

+

+

+

> 1 months

(>100/100K)

> 3 months

(> 60/100K)

> 12 month

(< 20/100K)‡

Nursing, dental, child care worker

Occupation†

Israel

--

--

--

--

+

--

Jordan

+

+

--

> 3 months

> 3 months

Adoptee

Additional Countries

      

Norway

+

+

+

> 3 months

> 3 months

Adoptee

New Zealand

+

+

+

> 6months (with risk factors)**

> 12 months (all)

> 6months (with risk factors)**

> 12 months (all)

--

Switzerland

--

+

--

--

--

--

Sweden

--

+

--

--

--

--

Netherlands

+

+

+

> 3 months

> 3 months

Adoptee

  1. + = YES and -- = NO
  2. *Temporary residents who will stay in Canada for more than 6 months and who have spent >6 consecutive months in a high incidence countries are also screened.
  3. ‡ In Australia, countries with TB rates < 20/100,000 get a CXR if coming for > 12 months and if ≥ 20/100,000 than a CXR is done if coming for more than 3 months >.
  4. ** New Zealand screens all applicants intending to stay for more than 12 months for TB. It also screens applicants intending to stay more than six months if there are risk factors present (ie. they hold a passport for a country not considered to be low incidence of TB, or if, in the five years prior to application, they have spent three months or more in any such country/ies)