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Application Fees for Non-Immigrant Visas to Increase On January 1, 2008 Effective January 1, 2008, the application fee for a U.S. nonimmigrant visa will increase from $100 to $131. This increase allows the Department to recover the costs of security and other enhancements to the non-immigrant visa application process. This increase applies both to non-immigrant visas issued on machine-readable foils in passports and to border crossing cards issued to certain applicants in Mexico. Applicants who paid the prior $100 application fee before January 1 will be processed only if they are scheduled and appear for a visa interview before January 31. Applicants who paid the prior $100 application fee and appear for visa interviews after January 31, 2008 must pay the difference -- $31 -- before they will be interviewed. The Department is required by law to recover the cost of processing non-immigrant visas through the collection of the Machine-Readable Visa application fee. Because of new security-related costs, new information technology systems, and inflation, the $100 Machine-Readable Visa fee is lower than the actual cost of processing non-immigrant visas. In fact, the $100 fee was already lower than the cost of processing non-immigrant visas when the fee was reviewed as a part of the cost of service study in 2004. The Department has been absorbing the additional cost. We are now collecting 10 fingerprints from each applicant, and the cost charged by the FBI to review those fingerprints no longer allow us to do this. The application fee has increased twice since 9/11, the last time in 2002. Check Destination USA, official source of information about U.S. visa policy and procedures Noile norme pentru acceptarea fotografiei pentru solicitãrile de vizã temporarã NIV Normele pentru fotografie ca document Adobe Acrobat (23 Kb) sau Microsoft Word (113 Kb) ATTENTION! New photo requirements for non-immigrant visa applications NIV Photo Requirements as Adobe Acrobat (25 Kb) or Microsoft Word (112 Kb) Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) Unit in the Consular Section Telephone: To speak with a nonimmigrant visa agent about general visa information, call the Visa Information Service at 0800-88-84-72 or 021-202-9999, from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday (this service is accessible by purchasing a PIN number for $11 at any branch of the Bank of Transilvania). The service can also be reached from the United States via the toll-free number 866-461-0239. Applicants or their representatives in the U.S. can charge the $11 fee to a Visa or MasterCard credit card. All general visa information is also available on this website. Fax (40 21) 200 3381 Internet: http://bucharest.usembassy.gov/ E-mail: visasbucharest@state.gov (for nonimmigrant visa refusal inquiries and for information not posted on this site) In person: Filipescu 26 in Bucharest, only with an appointment. How to get there: the Consular Section is located behind the Hotel Intercontinental on a street running parallel to Magheru Boulevard Immigrant Visa (IV) Unit in the Consular Section Telephone: (40 21) 200 3300 Fax: (40 21) 200 3505 Internet: http://bucharest.usembassy.gov/ E-mail: visasbucharest@state.gov (all immigrant visa inquiries) In person: Filipescu 26 in Bucharest How to get there: the Consular Section is located behind the Hotel Intercontinental on a street running parallel to Magheru Boulevard The Immigrant Visa Unit (IV) of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest is available for inquiries from the public by phone Monday through Friday from 8:00 A.M to 12:00 PM American Citizens Services (ACS) Unit in the Consular Section Telephone: +(40 21) 200 3300
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