Applicants may be asked to undertake medicals for various reasons some of which are given below:
- Stay of more than 3 months.
- Aged visitors (applicants over 75 years old).
- Persons likely to enter a hospital environment, health care environment or a classroom.
- Persons likely to work in child care centre.
- Persons likely to work as a doctor, dentist, nurse and paramedic (and students of these professions).
- The health declaration identifying a known health condition of an applicant.