Applying for a U.S. visa in 2010?
4 January 2010 by: visaservices
The U.S. Embassy is to introduce the new web-based nonimmigrant visa application form DS-160. Applicants applying for petition based visas – H, L, O, P, Q or R – in person on or after February 1, 2010 will be required to complete the new form DS-160. For all other applicants, March 1 is the all important date.
The DS-160 is web-based and once completed, transmits the applicant’s data to the post where s/he will apply for the visa. As the data is collected electronically, it means that we will be able to conduct various forms of pre-processing and pre-screening in advance of the application which should reduce processing delays. It also means that applicants who apply for visas on a frequent basis can save their original application and simply submit the updated form.
my girlfriend applied for her first visa, she paid all the fees about 390 dollars. she checked on it on a friday, they told her it would be ready monday. she went there monday morning to pick it up and they want another 430 dollars. what was the incress in payment for?. does a visa to the united states really cost 820 dollars?
The fees charged vary.
Nonimmigrant visa applicants (including K visa applicants) are required to pay an MRV fee of $131 to cover the costs involved in processing the visa application. Some nationalities (does not apply to K visa applicants) are required to pay an issuance fee which is based on reciprocity and reflects the fees charged by the applicant’s government for the same service to a U.S. citizen. Please visit the Department of State’s website at http://www.travel.state.gov for further information.
Immigrant Visa applicants pay a processing fee of $400.00 per visa applicant. This is in addition to the fee paid to file a petition with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – see http://www.uscis.gov for further information. Diversity immigrant visa applicants pay an additional surcharge of $375 and in the case of family based applicants applying for a visa through the National Visa Center, the petitioner pays an affidavit fee. Finally all immigrant visa and K visa applicants pay a fee for the medical examination which is £190 for applicants aged 15 and over and £95 for applicants aged 14 and under.