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Embassy of the United States of America Consular Section, Immigrant Visa Unit Bogotá, Colombia APPOINTMENT PACKAGE – IMMIGRANT VISAS (Packet 3/4)
You are receiving this packet because we have scheduled your immigrant visa interview. If you or any of your family members cannot come to the scheduled appointment, please inform this office as soon as possible. The Consular Section is located at thecorner of Calle 26 and Carrera 50 in Bogotá. FIRST: Register at http://colombia.usvisa-info.com by clicking on “Login” in the upper right hand corner. When registering, make sure to use your passport book number (the book number appears in red on the inside front cover and is perforated into each visa page in the passport). You must register every family members applying for a visa at the website.To do this, scroll further down the page and click on “Add Family Members”. Each applicant must complete this step before coming to their interview appointment. You may contact our Call Center in Bogota at 325-9851 for assistance with this process. SECOND: Complete the medical examination. See attached Instructions for Medical Examinations. THIRD: Attend the interview. x If you have not alreadydone so, download and fill out the Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration (Form DS-230),Parts I and II (available at http://travel.state.gov/pdf/DS-0230.pdf) for each family member. DO NOT SIGN THE APPLICATION until instructed to do so by a consular officer during the interview. Arrive at the embassy no later than your scheduled appointment time. The visa interview process may takeseveral hours. Our waiting room is outside and Bogota can get cold. Please dress accordingly. Make sure that everyone listed on the appointment letter brings all required documents to the appointment. Arrange documents in the exact order found on the attached List of Documents.

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VISA PAYMENT: If the petitioner has not yet paid the nonrefundable visa application and surcharge fees (or youare not sure if they have paid), you should bring $404 U.S. dollars (or the equivalent in pesos) per person to pay these fees on the day of the interview. The Embassy accepts certain credit cards and debit cards displaying the Visa or MasterCard logo. Please note that the U.S. banking system does not use the ‘cuota’ system, which means that credit cards will be charged the entire amount in oneinstallment. The Embassy DOES NOT accept U.S. $100 bills, imperfect bills or checks. CHILDREN UNDER AGE 14: Children less than age 14 who received their own appointment letter (IR and CR cases) must attend the immigrant visa interview (i.e., a 3 year old son of a U.S. citizen must come to his interview). Children less than age 14 whose names are listed on a parent’s appointment letter are not requiredto come to the visa interview. IMPORTANT NOTES: Visa issuance is not guaranteed. Therefore, we recommend that you do NOT make any travel plans, quit your job, or sell your properties until a consular officer has approved your visa. The Consular Section does not endorse or have a "special relationship" with any individual, attorney, or business that offers advice or assistance with the visaprocess. All U.S. government forms are free. Any document or information presented with your visa application may be investigated by our Fraud Prevention Unit. Any attempt to misrepresent a material fact to a consular officer may make you permanently ineligible to obtain a visa. To withdraw a visa petition, the petitioner must inform us in writing. A scanned letter, which must include case number, andthe complete name and date of birth of both the petitioner and the applicant may be sent to IVbogota@state.gov. To download forms or learn more about the visa process please visit http://travel.state.gov.
Rev: Nov 2011 Instruction Package (packet 3/4)

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LIST OF DOCUMENTS If you have already submitted any of these documents to NVC, you do not need to resubmit them to the embassy....