Tourist Visa for Colombian Sister-In-law

[mike101 8]

Hello All,

I am working on helping my sister-in-law get a tourist visa to come visit us in the summer of 2015. I know that there is the option of select your own date for the interview in Bogota however I would like to know if anyone knows how far in advance the date can be scheduled?

We plan on traveling to Bogota in late december and would like for her to be able to schedule the date for the same time we are there.

I would greatly appreciate input form someone who has recently gone through the process of getting a tourist visa from Colombia.

Thank you

[mike101 8]

Update:

We finally applied for the Tourist Visa (B2) in Bogota and at there were plenty of open dates to schedule an appointment. I took the calendar out until March which is 4 months in advance. It probably went further but I didn't go that far.

One thing that I found out that I didn’t know is that there are actually 2 appointments. The first appointment is for biometrics (Picture, finger prints, etc) and the second appointment is for the consular interview. With the way the times are set the biometric apointment needs to be atleast 1 day ahead of the consular interview.

We’ll be applying in January and I’ll report back with an update. Hopefully they get approved..