dual citizenship , with who to apply for visa? help

[spartakm 0]

Hello, I have two passports i want to apply for visa in the country who is not from EU (serbia) with passport who is from EU(bulgaria) in the embassy in Serbia,(where i m born and live and work first i want to know can i do this? . second , answering the questions i stuck up with the nationality , there is a question 1.Country region of origin (Nationality ) i fill up Serbian, becouse its the country where i m born and live , in the other question Do you hold or have you held any nationality other than the one indicated above on nationality?" YES Other Country/Region of Origin (Nationality)(1): BULGARIA Do you hold a passport for the other country/region of origin (nationality) above? YES . if can someone help will be very thankful

[rutabaga 209]

If you live in Serbia, you can apply in Serbia. As for the second question, I think that you're complicating things a little here by wanting to use the Bulgarian passport to go to the US even though you have a Serbian passport, live in Serbia, work in Serbia and will be applying in Serbia especially since I don't see any advantage really to having your US visa in a Bulgarian passport as opposed to the Serbian one. Anyway, I think, but may be wrong, that you should enter the nationality of the country whose passport you want to use to enter the US (and get the visa in) as your first nationality on the form, and put the other nationality as the additional one.

P.S. As to whether it's possible in the first place to get the visa in the Bulgarian passport even though you also have a Serbian one and will be applying in Serbia, I don't see why not, but then again I don't issue visas. Contact the US embassy in Serbia to find out for sure.

Edited April 19, 2016 by rutabaga

[spartakm 0]

do you think that maybe more chances i will have if i apply with Eu Passport to get a visa? thats why my prior was this passport

the % for refusal for usa visa for serbian citizen is much high then for bulgarians.

Edited April 19, 2016 by spartakm

[rutabaga 209]

I really don't think it matters, I mean, they'll know you're a national of an EU country as well as Serbia either way since you'll disclose it on the form. Plus, I really don't think they're going to decide whether to issue you a visa or not based on the fact that they would be affixing it in a Bulgarian passport as opposed to a Serbian one.

[rutabaga 209]

the % for refusal for usa visa for serbian citizen is much high then for bulgarians.

Showing up with a Bulgarian passport does not change the fact that you're also a Serbian citizen. Like I said, they will know that you're both a Serbian and a Bulgarian citizen, so I really don't believe that picking which passport to get the visa in will make any difference. It's not about your passport, it's about convincing them you'll go back home from the US, and your home right now is Serbia, not Bulgaria according to your first post.

Edited April 19, 2016 by rutabaga

[spartakm 0]

I think that us visa polisy has special agreements with individual countries

[Manutd10 4]

I have Macedonian and Bulgarian passport but I live whole my life in Macedonia so I applied with the Macedonian passport I don't see why would u apply with the Bulgarian it's the same procedure and has no matter that it's eu passport, nema potrebe da komplikujes stvari pozz

Edited April 19, 2016 by Manutd10

[rutabaga 209]

I think that us visa polisy has special agreements with individual countries

I don't think their policy towards Bulgaria is much different than their policy towards Serbia. In fact, according to this document the adjusted B visa (the one you'd be applying for as a tourist) refusal rate for Bulgarian citizens (17.26%) is about the same as the one for Serbian citizens (16.54%). I really don't see any advantage to insisting on the Bulgarian passport since Bulgaria is not a part of the VWP. I da i ja kažem po naški: zaista nema potrebe da komplikuješ stvari.

Edited April 19, 2016 by rutabaga

[MacUK 983]

I think that us visa polisy has special agreements with individual countries

Yes it does, it's called VWP.

It doesn't apply to Bulgaria OR Serbia