Phone Number: |
For information about immigrant or non-immigrant visa processes, or schedule appointments
Regardless of the visa category requested, every applicant should contact the Visa Information Service at
In Ecuador:
1-800-010-145
In the U.S.:
1-800-919-5290
** us citizens can walk-in:
In person: Tuesday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to noon at the U.S. Consulate in Guayaquil, 2nd Floor |
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E-Mail: |
acsguayaquil@state.gov |
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Address: |
Avenida 9 de Octubre y Garcma Moreno (corner) |
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Working Hours: |
7:00 am - 5:00 pm |
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Best Contact Method: |
E- mail (reply in 2-3 days) |
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Approx Waiting Time for Interview After Consulate Recieves
NVC Package: |
3-4 days to receive packet 4...once you have completed all of the packet 4 including paying $100 usd at banco de guayaquil. you call to get a pin (I called and purchased with a credit card easier than going to bank of guayaquil 2 times -- long lines) |
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Issues Packet 3? |
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Packet 3 Contains: |
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Issues Packet 4? |
Yes |
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Packet 4 Contents (if known): |
All the forms you have to take with you to the interview.
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Forms to Consulate? |
None. Everything is taken with you to the interview.
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Other Forms (if any)? |
Birth certificate, Marriage Certificate, divorce certificates. Police certificate only for the countries outside US and Ecuador where the person had lived a year or more since the age of 16. 2 photos 5cm x 5cm full face, white back, passport valid for at least 6 months, the visa fee payment certificate.
In Packet 4, you will receive a letter from the Consulate. You must also present this letter on the day of your interview. |
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Direct Consular Filing Offered? |
No |
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If DCF Allowed: For all or only US citizen lawfully resident in country?
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Can fiance(e)/spouse attend interview? |
No |
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Visa fee payment "same day" or "in advance"? |
Advance |
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Did embassy schedule interview or could you walk-in? |
Embassy Scheduled |
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Visa issued same day? |
No |
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If not what's the waiting period? |
4 days sent via DHL to home or to the DHL office nearest your home. (EP-KO added comment: For us the interview was on a Thursday and the passport/visa arrived on the following Wednesday.)
*** bring $8 cash to pay for the DHL delivery after the interview you are sent to the DHL around the corner to pay th $8. |
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Is the Medical exam same day as interview? |
Prior to Interview |
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Cost of Medical Exam? |
$80 including Blood Tests and X-ray - 3 day waiting for results. |
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List of doctors? |
QUITO
HECTOR AGUILAR, MD
MEDICENTRO
6 de Diciembre 4697 y Pasaje Turquma, 2do Piso
Tel: (02) 2453-530 or (02) 2448-315
Horario: 8:00 a mediodma and
15:00 a 18:30 (con previa cita)
JORGE PIZARRO, MD
Vasco de Contreras 116 y Rumipamba
Tel: (02) 2452-089 or (02) 2258-488
Horario: Mediodma a 13:00 y
15:30 a 19:00 p.m.
ANIBAL SOSA, MD
RODRIGO SOSA, MD
Alemania 144 y Eloy Alfaro
Edificio MEDICAL 5toPiso
Tel: (02) 2525-102 or
(02) 2909-777 or
(02) 2560-715
Horario: 08:30 a 12:30
15:00 a 19:00
Sabados: 8:00 a 12:00
GUAYAQUIL
AURELIO ANDRADE, MD
Antepara 921 y 9 de Octubre, 1er Piso
Tel: (04) 2320-342 or (04) 2320-343
Horario: 7:30 a 17:30
Clinica Panamericana
Panama 616 y Roca 2do piso, Oficina 206
Tel: (04) 2304-218 or (04) 2309-405
Horario: 8:30 a 17:30
TELMO FERNANDEZ, MD
L. Urdaneta 1401 y Garcia Moreno
Tel: (04) 2294-515 or (04) 2291-840 or (09) 9778-719
Horario: 7:30 a 19:30
Sabados: 7:00 a Mediodma
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How many Passport Photo's Required for the medical? |
2 |
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How many Passport Photo's Required at the interview? |
2 |
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Estimated waiting time at the consulate on the day of interview? |
LT&GH experience at Embassy:
5 hours, thwy treat you like cattle, all persons for imigration visas (not tourist but family visas) are herded in at 7:15 am. then they are called one by one to hand in their packet4 and everyting else. then returned to their seats as Ecuadorian citizens impute all the data in to the computer system. then they start to call the applicants one by one up to a window where there is a USC embassy employee who starts to interview you in front of everyone over the loud speeker that is in the bulletproof glass. the interview takes about 5 min. and he tells you you are aproved right there.
EP-KO experience at Embassy:
We arrived to the Embassy at 6.45am on the day of our interview. There was already a line that had started forming, but it wasn't nearly as long as I had expected. There are three different lines that are labeled at the head of the line- Resident visas first visit, Resident visas second visit, and Tourist visas. The majority of people were standing in the first line for the Resident visas first visit. At 7am, a guy came through the line asking for the Interview letter (this came as part of the Packet 4). My fiance and I presented that letter, and his name was already on the list that the man had. My fiance was given a yellow piece of paper that said "7am" written on it. Okay after they went through the line, they started to let people into the gates where security guards searched everyone. No cell phones, cameras, electronics, nada. They didn't even let me in, and I am the U.S. citizen. Only my fiance could enter, and the only he had with him was his paperwork. I waited outside. Inside, my fiance had to submit all of his paperwork and proof to an Ecuadorian woman at the counter. He submitted everything and was told to take a seat and wait. He waited until 12pm when they let everyone leave for a lunchbreak. People had been called alphabetically to the window, and finally his name was called after lunch. He was first asked if he wanted to speak English or Spanish during the interview. He said he could speak English, but not perfectly. The man continued the interview in Spanish. He asked my fiance where we had met, and why he wants to come to the U.S. Also he asked my fiance where I currently work. The questions lasted only abotu 5 minutes, and then my fiance was told that his visa was approved and he was given a piece of paper to take to the nearest DHL office. My fiance entered the Embassy at 7.30am and was finished by around 4pm with an hour lunch break. |
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Vaccination requirements? |
none. |
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Cheap and good hotels near the Consulate? |
We stayed at Hotel Alexander- $30 a night, but much cheaper than the Oro Verde which is the closest to the Embassy. |
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Additional Info? |
LT&GH info:
there is a trick to make things go faster:
I emailed the conculate in guayaquil after finding out from the NVC that the packet was sent to the conculate. the conculate in guayaquil told me that if the packet 4 is not recieved in an acceptable amount of time...I can download the packet 4 from there website (http://usembassy.state.gov/guayaquil/wwwfivk1p4.pdf) fill out and complete all instructions, purchase pin and call to make my appointment when all is ready.
So when the file was sent from NVC to the conculate i then had the GYQ case number. with that we were able to do the medical the same day :-D . got the medical results 3 days later, in these 3 days got the birth certificate (photocopy fron registery book with seal on it) and the police record. when we recieved the medical report I called the conculate number from the packet 4 using the pin I bought for $12 via visa over the phone. they asked if we had received the packet 4 yet...I told them no but had received an email stating i could download it from their website and that we had everything ready now...we had everything done and got our interview date for 2 weeks later without yet receiving the packet 4 (which showed up 2 days later LOL ).so from NVC sending out the case to the conculate till our interview date was just 2 weeks. lot's faster than the usual 3 - 4 months :-)).
Also you will notice the packet 4 says to do the medical 2 weeks before the interview date...it's wrong!!! they will not give you the inteview date until you have already done the medical exam, so as soon as you have everything ready and the case no. from the NVC do the medical, pay the $100 at BofG and you can make your appointment over the phone!!
EP-KO Info:
I tried the trick that LT&GS described above, and it didn't work for me. Once our NOA1 was approved and I knew that the NVC had sent out paperwork to Guayaquil, I called the Embassy in Guayaquil to make an appointment for the interview. However, they didn't let me do that because although I had my case number, the case number hadn't been received by the Embassy, so they told me I had to wait. I checked the Guayaquil Embassy website constantly to see if our case number had been sent packet4 yet, and soon (2 weeks from the NVC send date) our case number appeared on that website. Once our case number (GYQ2007...) was on that website, I called again to make the interview (I had to buy a second PIN number)and there were no problems. K1 visa interviews cannot be done on Fridays. The earliest possible interview date was 2 weeks later. When I called for the interview date, we hadn't yet received packet 4, I only knew taht the Embassy had sent it to us (based on the website). She asked "what is the last thing you've heard about your case", and I told her that we had received packet4 in the mail, otherwise she would not have let us make the appointment yet.
Anyway, while we were waiting for our interview date to come, the Packet4 arrived and it included older versions of the forms that we had already filled out. We filled out all versions just to be sure. |
