Friday, February 25, 2011

New US Visa Appointment Service

The U.S. Embassy in Accra has announced that it will migrate to a new non-immigrant or visitor visa appointment service from next Tuesday, March 1.

Applicants will, from the date, be expected to go through five distinct steps including paying the visa application fee at any ECOBANK branch.

Applicants are then to complete the online non-immigrant visa application form (CEAC/DS-160)

Subsequently, applicants would have to schedule a visa interview appointment at www.ustraveldocs.com or by calling 233-263011685.

Three pieces of information will be required to successfully schedule an appointment, including applicants passport number; MRV fee payment receipt; and the 10 digit barcode number from your DS-160 confirmation page.

The fourth step is for the applicant to visit the U.S. Embassy in Accra on the date and time of the visa interview.

Applicants will be expected to bring along a printed copy of the appointment letter, the DS-160 confirmation page, one recent visa photograph, current and all old passports, and the original visa fee payment receipt.

Applications without all of the above mentioned items will not be accepted.
Finally, applicants will be expected to personally collect issued visas at the U.S. Embassy in Accra.

The Embassy announced that applicants who have already scheduled visa appointments will not be impacted by this change.

Those who have already scheduled an appointment through the current online system should bring along their Standard Chartered receipt and proceed via the current process.

Applicants who have paid their MRV fee prior to March 1, 2011, but have not scheduled an appointment, will have a grace period from March1, 2011 until April to use their MRV fee for appointment scheduling.

Anyone with an MRV receipt obtained prior to March 1 will have to pay the MRV fee again if they have not scheduled an appointment before April 30, 2011.

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