What’s New and Noteworthy

Information on recent Consular developments

General Questions:

Please refer to the categories below, select the one that most closely matches your inquiry, and then click on the link provided. This will take you directly to the information about your visa inquiry on our website. If your question does not fit any of the categories given below, or you want to see the latest news about visas, please click on http://travel.state.gov/ for general access to our website.

Contacting a U.S. Embassy, Consulate or other Post: <http://travel.state.gov/travel/abroad_embassies.html>

Visa Application Forms: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi_forms.html>

Visa Delays: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_info_additional5.html>

Visa Denials: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi_denials.html>

Affidavit of Support (I-864): <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_affidavit.html>

Non-Immigrant Visa Categories: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types.html>

Tourism and Business Travel: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_visitor.html>

Visa Waiver Program: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_novisa_waiver.html>

Study in the U.S.: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_students.html>

Temporary Work in the U.S.: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_temp.html>

Religious Work in the U.S.: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_temp_religious.html>

Cultural Exchanges to the U.S.: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_scholars.html>

J Visa Foreign Residency Questions: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_info_waivers.html>

K3/K4 Information:
If you are a U.S. citizen and you married a foreign national overseas, your spouse and his/her dependent children may be eligible to enter the U.S. as K3 or K4 nonimmigrants. Information is available at <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_marriage2.html>

V Visa Information:
Certain spouses and their dependent children of U.S. Legal Permanent Residents may be eligible to enter the U.S. as V non-immigrants. To learn more about the V visa, please click on <http://travel.state.gov/visa/V_visa.doc>

Visa Renewals while in the U.S.:
Domestic Revalidation/Renewal is no longer available for the E, H, I L, O and P visa holders. Information on renewing your visa is available at <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_renewal4.html>

Immigrant Visa Categories:
Immigrant Visas: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types.html>

Family-Based Visas:
If your relatives are U.S. citizens or Legal Permanent Residents in the U.S. and they are sponsoring your immigration, please click on <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_family.html>

Employment-Based Visas:
If your current or potential U.S. employer is sponsoring your immigration, please click <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_employment.html>for further information.

Visa Lottery: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_diversity.html>

For information on previous DV lotteries, please call the National Visa Center at 603-334-0700.
For information on DV-lottery, please e-mail the Kentucky Consular Center at kccdv@state.gov <mailto:kccdv@state.gov> <mailto:kccdv@state.gov or you can call the Center at 606-526-7500. The Kentucky Consular Center is handling only DV-lottery cases.
Canada and Mexico:

Tourism and Business Travel: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_visitor.html>

Border Crossing Card: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_types_mex.html>

Foreign Nationals in Canada and Mexico: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/tempvisitors_novisa_canadians.html>

Concerns of U.S. Citizens:
Traveling Abroad from the U.S.: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/americans.html>

Fiancé(e) Visa:
If your foreign national fiancé(e) will come to the U.S. to marry you here, he or she may qualify for a non-immigrant fiancé(e) visa. Details are available at <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_marriage2.html>

U.S. Citizen Married to Foreign National Overseas:
If you are a citizen of the United States and you married a foreign national overseas, your spouse and his/her dependent children may be able to enter the U.S. as K3 and K4 nonimmigrants. For information, please click on <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_marriage2.html>

Foreign Adoptions: <http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants_types_adoption.html>

Coming Home without a U.S. Passport: <http://travel.state.gov/travel/abroad_emergency.html>

Some questions can only be answered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security, formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), because you are already in the United States:
· Do you have a visa and would like to change it to another type?
· Would you like to extend your stay in the U.S.?
· Have you changed your U.S. employer?
· Now that you're in the U.S., would you like to find work?
· Do you have a U.S. visa but were refused admission or entry into the United States and
want to know why and what to do next?

For information on these and other topics concerning immigration matters while you are in the United States, you'll need to contact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), formerly known as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Click on <http://uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm>