IMMIGRANT VISA APPLICANTS APPOINTMENT LETTER:

IMMIGRANT VISA APPLICANTS APPOINTMENT LETTER:
CONSULATE GENERAL OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Immigrant Visa Unit
Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil
www.consuladodoseua‐rio.org.br
www.state.gov
All steps of your request for an immigrant visa have been concluded. Based on your notification that all required
documents are ready, we have scheduled you an appointment at our office for the date specified in the computer
produced letter or posted on our website under Immigrant Visa Interview Dates at 7:45a.m. All members of your
family that will immigrate with you must come to the interview, including all children. If you cannot keep this
appointment, please, notify our office, by phone, fax or in writing so that another date can be set up.
If you have not previously sent DS‐230 part 2 to this office, please read carefully the “Application for Immigrant
Visa and Alien Registration ‐ Sworn Statement ‐ Part 2” and fill it out completely. Do not sign now ‐ you will have
to do it in front of the Consular Officer during the interview. All numbered questions have to be filled out. If any
paragraph does not apply to you, please write: “not applicable”. Each member of your family that is included in
your immigrant visa petition needs to fill out one of these forms. A parent or guardian may fill out any forms for
minor children.
All applicants applying for an immigrant visa, regardless of age, need to undergo a medical examination. Please
find attached a list of the only authorized panel physicians.
One (1) frontal color photograph 5X5cm or 5X7cm with white background on glossy paper is required. The picture
must not be retouched or mounted. No head covering or glasses should be worn. Both ears must be completely
shown. Color Polaroid photo is acceptable. Photos are required of all applicants regardless of age.
Please bring all documents applicable to your case. If all the requirements are not met, exactly as stated on the
forms provided, you will not receive your visa on the following work day. If that happens, your process may be
delayed, in some cases, up to three months. We recommend you do everything accordingly in order to avoid
delays.
Documents required include:
Passport with at least 8 (eight) months validity;
Official Birth Certificate for every applicant with simple copy (including married, divorced or widowed
applicants);
Civil Marriage Certificate with simple copy, if applicable;
Official Divorce Decree, or previous spouse’s Death Certificate with simple copy, if applicable;
Military Records with simple copy;
Police Certificate(s) (police certificate issued by the “Secretaria de Segurança Pública” and “Polícia Federal”
with copy. Certificates issued by “Cartório” or “Fórum” are not accepted.)
Affidavit of Support (Form I‐864, one for each applicant and attachments) or job letter (for employmentbased
processes). If the Affidavit has been previously sent to NVC, please double check if the latest tax form
has been sent along with it and the form has been signed less than six months ago. Be aware that these are
mandatory required for the interview;
Medical examination results;
One frontal colored picture 5X5cm or 5X7cm for each applicant (ears totally shown);
Form DS 230‐II,”Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration‐Part II Sworn Statement”, if not
previously sent.
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If you are the beneficiary of a family‐based immigrant visa petition, you must be prepared to present the originals
of all civil documents that establish your claimed relationship to the petitioner. If you are the beneficiary of an
employment‐based immigrant visa petition, you need to present an updated notarized job letter confirming the
position.
In order to immigrate with you to the United States, or to follow you at a later date, your children must be
unmarried and under the age of 21 at the time they enter the United States.
The date of the notarized signature on the Affidavits, as well as the date of the employment letters are valid only
for 6 (six) months. Likewise the Medical Examination Reports are valid for only 6 (six) months. The Police
Certificates are valid for 1 (one) year. Please carefully verify the validity of the forms.
If your documents are in Portuguese or English, they do not need to be translated. If there are any documents in
any other language, they need to be translated into English. Translations must be done by a sworn public
translator and sworn to before a Notary Public or a Consular Officer in any Consular Section in any American
Consulate.
Job Offers and Medical Examinations should not have been done more than 6 (six) months before when presented
to the Consul at the visa interview. Police certificates are valid for 1 (one) year.
The total fee for an immigrant visa processing is US$ 400.00 or the local currency equivalent in cash. No checks are
accepted. “Travelers checks” from the applicants are acceptable. We only accept full payment in one or the other
currency or international credit card, i.e: Visa/Mastercard/American Express/Novus‐Discover/Visas/Mastercard.
The fees are generally good for 1 (one) year after the appointment date. If, for any reason, the visa is not issued,
the interview fee of US$ 400.00 will not be refunded.
ATTENTION: We cannot guarantee the approval of your visa in advance. The Consul must check the documents
first and then make a final decision on your visa request. We encourage you not to make any final travel
arrangements, sell your properties or quit your job before your visa is issued.
The immigrant visa is usually valid for 180 (one hundred and eighty) days after the issuance. You must enter the
U.S. within this period. Once in the U.S. you are going to receive your ‘Green Card’ and you must contact the Social
Security Agency to get information on your Social Security Card with authorization to work.
This Office will do its best to process your visa as soon as possible but you will most likely have to spend the entire
morning in this Office until the Consul can make a final decision on your request. If any problem is detected, it is
possible that you may have to return to this Office again.
You must use a delivery service that has a partnership with the consulate to return your visa after issued. Upon
the approval of your visa you will receive instructions on how to contract this service. This consulate will not be
responsible for losses or damages that may occur to the correspondence, nor any tracking system. If the
correspondence gets lost, you would have to prepare all the documents again in order to receive another visa.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The section 203(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Law requires that an immigrant applicant proceed with your
visa request within one year from the date the interview was scheduled. If you cannot attend the interview within
one year from the date in the attached appointment letter, your request and visa petition will be canceled.
Attachments:
1. Form DS 230 part‐II, Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration ‐ Sworn Statement and
2. List of Panel Physicians.
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The Immigrant Visa Unit of the American Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro interviews applicants by
appointment only. Please see our contact information instructions.
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