So, basically, anytime I need something from the US Embassy at Argentina, I have to pay $8. I just wanted to know if the case arrived, I have to pay $8. I want to know if my taxes have to be notorized, pay $8. I want to know if my fiance can go pick up packet 3 instead of having it mailed , pay $8. My fiance is ready for his interview, pay $8. This is is insane.
Visa information service from the US
Beginning June 2, 2005, you can call the Visa Information Service directly from the United States, in order to schedule an appointment or request visa information.
Visa applicants calling from the United States, may purchase a Visa Information Service PIN using either a Visa or Mastercard for a charge of 26 pesos aproximately. Once the credit card transaction is approved, you will have access to the service, to receive information and to make an appointment.
If you are calling from the United States and would like to make an appointment, please call: 1-877-355-0943
Anyone else ever heard of this? According to their website:
The fees collected will be used solely to maintain the VIS. Argentina is one of more than twenty countries that are participating in a model program used by American Embassies around the world. Other participating countries include Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Spain, England, France, Germany, Poland, Egypt, Japan and the Philippines.
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Well, that's cheap in Venezuela you've to pay $28 for 15 minutes of information (sometimes misinformation)
What a bunch of crap!! I would understand if they charged non-USC who want information on how to get a visa and such.
Yes, they charge for calls and I think it's even more expensive in Brazil. However, if I need to find out about the K1 visa, they have another phone number to take the calls - Immigration Visas department. And these calls aren't charged. But you can wait for like, 40 minutes until someone talks to you. Also, we can only call from 1:30p to 3:30p.
Egypt charges for calls too, that's why it's sometimes best to just shoot em' an email.
QUOTE(Aymerlu @ Aug 2 2006, 01:57 PM) 
Egypt charges for calls too, that's why it's sometimes best to just shoot em' an email.
Trust me, I have
They just never answer any of them. Actually, they answered one of my e-mails, attached a document, asked me to read it and then contradicted what the document said in the body of the e-mail 
QUOTE(seldi @ Aug 2 2006, 03:27 PM)
QUOTE(Aymerlu @ Aug 2 2006, 01:57 PM)
Egypt charges for calls too, that's why it's sometimes best to just shoot em' an email.
Trust me, I have
They just never answer any of them. Actually, they answered one of my e-mails, attached a document, asked me to read it and then contradicted what the document said in the body of the e-mail I've read in other threads that some embassies are better at giving you info if you fax them. You could try...
QUOTE(Mew @ Aug 2 2006, 02:29 PM)
I've read in other threads that some embassies are better at giving you info if you fax them. You could try...
ooh, fax. Great idea!!! Thanks!
In Warsaw home page is writen they charge 8 $. But when I called, nothing was charged from me more then usual international call.
QUOTE(seldi @ Aug 2 2006, 08:03 AM)
So, basically, anytime I need something from the US Embassy at Argentina, I have to pay $8. I just wanted to know if the case arrived, I have to pay $8. I want to know if my taxes have to be notorized, pay $8. I want to know if my fiance can go pick up packet 3 instead of having it mailed , pay $8. My fiance is ready for his interview, pay $8. This is is insane.
Visa information service from the US
Beginning June 2, 2005, you can call the Visa Information Service directly from the United States, in order to schedule an appointment or request visa information.
Visa applicants calling from the United States, may purchase a Visa Information Service PIN using either a Visa or Mastercard for a charge of 26 pesos aproximately. Once the credit card transaction is approved, you will have access to the service, to receive information and to make an appointment.
If you are calling from the United States and would like to make an appointment, please call: 1-877-355-0943
El Salvador charges too! If you are in El Salvador you buy a phone card that is good for 8 minutes only. They are supposed to be bilingual.....I used up my 8 minutes asking the same question over and over and did not get an answer. From the States, you call an 866 number with your credit card and I think it is $3 dollars a minute. All they do is check a computer screen to find out where the visa is. They do not know exactly when packet 3 is going out, or if you are requiered to have orginal copies of your birth cert at the interview for the fiance. The service is based in Mexico and not El Salvador, my fiances home country. Their guesstimate is problably coming true, though.......Our package arrived in El Salvador almost a month ago and they said it could be another month or longer for packet 3 to go out. Maybe thry are a traing ground for CSC? Who knows, maybe the US Govt is going to outsource all immigration processing, too.
Anyone else ever heard of this? According to their website:
The fees collected will be used solely to maintain the VIS. Argentina is one of more than twenty countries that are participating in a model program used by American Embassies around the world. Other participating countries include Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Spain, England, France, Germany, Poland, Egypt, Japan and the Philippines.
Sorry for the last post and the way it showed up. I still have not learned....it is supposed to look like this........
El Salvador charges too! If you are in El Salvador you buy a phone card that is good for 8 minutes only. They are supposed to be bilingual.....I used up my 8 minutes asking the same question over and over and did not get an answer. From the States, you call an 866 number with your credit card and I think it is $3 dollars a minute. All they do is check a computer screen to find out where the visa is. They do not know exactly when packet 3 is going out, or if you are requiered to have orginal copies of your birth cert at the interview for the fiance. The service is based in Mexico and not El Salvador, my fiances home country. Their guesstimate is problably coming true, though.......Our package arrived in El Salvador almost a month ago and they said it could be another month or longer for packet 3 to go out. Maybe thry are a traing ground for CSC? Who knows, maybe the US Govt is going to outsource all immigration processing, too.
Vancouver, Canada doesn't accept any phone calls, but you can shoot them emails and they usually reply promptly. Oh, and it's free 
London does as well.
But if you write them an email they get back to you in about 2-3 days!
But if you write them an email they get back to you in about 2-3 days!
I know for a fact that here in Brasil they charge you 38 reais to be able to schedule a tourist visa interview.
Wow! That's awful that they do that to you guys.. anyone tried smoke signals?? lol
QUOTE(ieva & carl @ Sep 10 2006, 07:36 AM)
In Warsaw home page is writen they charge 8 $. But when I called, nothing was charged from me more then usual international call.
same thing for Amsterdam, the homepage says 15 euro's per call and on the phonebill it showed up as a regular call for the normal pay.
QUOTE(jolanda @ Sep 10 2006, 07:24 PM)
QUOTE(ieva & carl @ Sep 10 2006, 07:36 AM)
In Warsaw home page is writen they charge 8 $. But when I called, nothing was charged from me more then usual international call.
same thing for Amsterdam, the homepage says 15 euro's per call and on the phonebill it showed up as a regular call for the normal pay.
Maybe they're trying to discourage people from calling! LOLq
Oh and their misinformation line is only for non immigrant visa
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