Australian visa medical with Type 1 diabetes.

Lara11 said:

Hi, we applied to move to Australia a few months back, since then my son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. We are still waiting for our visa and have not been called for medical yet. I am just wondering if anyone here had an experience moving to Australia and what are our chances passing medical with type 1 diabetes.

thank you.

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Hi and welcome to the forums.

I moved to Australia on my husband's work visa with no T1 issues. When we upgraded to permanent visas I had to have a medical, and (maybe because of my age and length of time with T1 and the fact I was on blood pressure tablets) they made me have a report from a heart specialist. (They also made us have AIDS tests and yet another chest xray, though I think that was only for the adults).

I would hope that childhood T1 wouldn't cause any issues, but stress that my experience was as a long term adult T1 with reasonable but far from perfect diabetic control. (And it was 20 years ago).