Picking Up Visa at Embassy

DanielPaisa says on Nov 22, 2005, 14:42:

You don't pick up the visa If the visa is aproved, there's a postal office inside the embassy where she has to pay about 35.000 COP to get it delivered home. No visas are delivered in the embassy, and i think this is the only way to get it, so, ask her to take extra money to pay the delivery. They'll ask her Cedula, adress and many other information, and it will be delivered to her

Daniel, el Paisa

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bbattiste says on Nov 22, 2005, 14:59:

Check the Embassy Webpage DP As of July 1st, 2005 the embassy is distributing immigrant visas the following business day after 4 PM at the embassy...but, thanks.

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Gator says on Nov 22, 2005, 19:48:

As Sr. bbattiste Says...
From the US Embassy web site:


"Once a visa is approved, the beneficiary must return to the Consular Section, on the next business day at 4:00PM to pick up the visa personally. The beneficiary may assign a representative to pick up the visa with a notarized letter of authorization."

"What do I do when my visa is approved?

If the consular officer approves the visa, based on the interview, your passport will be delivered to your home seven to 10 working days after the interview, through the DOMESA messenger service. The DOMESA representative has a small office near the exit and entrance to the waiting room. In order to receive your passport with the visa, you must pay DOMESA before leaving the Embassy after your interview.


What if I need to travel soon after my interview?

In making your travel plans, you should allow at least 10 working days from the time of your interview for visa processing. However, in the event that you have a credible and compelling reason for needing to travel sooner, you should ask the interviewing officer, while you are still at the interview window, to expedite the process. In some rare circumstances, the Consular Section may be able to print the visa and have it available later in the afternoon on the day of the interview."

But the Embassy and what it posts is about as accurate as a weather forecast,

"Credidi pretio parvo emere et magno vendere tibi in animo fuisse!" .

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bbattiste says on Nov 22, 2005, 21:52:

Mr. Gator I am not following what you are saying. This quote is for immigrant visas:
"Once a visa is approved, the beneficiary must return to the Consular Section, on the next business day at 4:00PM to pick up the visa personally. The beneficiary may assign a representative to pick up the visa with a notarized letter of authorization."

And this quote is for non-immigrant visas:
"If the consular officer approves the visa, based on the interview, your passport will be delivered to your home seven to 10 working days after the interview, through the DOMESA messenger service. The DOMESA representative has a small office near the exit and entrance to the waiting room. In order to receive your passport with the visa, you must pay DOMESA before leaving the Embassy after your interview."

If I am not mistaken an immigrant visa represents relatives, wives, fiances and non-immigrant visas are tourists and workers...those intending to return to Colombia. So I think my wifes only choice is to pick it up the following business day...that is what the website says. Therefore, I am still confused on how my wife will obtain her visa. Must she spend Christmas and that weekend in Bogota and wait until Monday or Tuesday?

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bbattiste says on Nov 22, 2005, 21:52:

Mr. Gator I am not following what you are saying. This quote is for immigrant visas:
"Once a visa is approved, the beneficiary must return to the Consular Section, on the next business day at 4:00PM to pick up the visa personally. The beneficiary may assign a representative to pick up the visa with a notarized letter of authorization."

And this quote is for non-immigrant visas:
"If the consular officer approves the visa, based on the interview, your passport will be delivered to your home seven to 10 working days after the interview, through the DOMESA messenger service. The DOMESA representative has a small office near the exit and entrance to the waiting room. In order to receive your passport with the visa, you must pay DOMESA before leaving the Embassy after your interview."

If I am not mistaken an immigrant visa represents relatives, wives, fiances and non-immigrant visas are tourists and workers...those intending to return to Colombia. So I think my wifes only choice is to pick it up the following business day...that is what the website says. Therefore, I am still confused on how my wife will obtain her visa. Must she spend Christmas and that weekend in Bogota and wait until Monday or Tuesday?

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cam0940 says on Nov 22, 2005, 23:26:

bbatiste, you are correct. Your wife ought to pick up the visa the following business day at 4 PM. If she cannot stay over the weekend to pick it up that Monday, she would need to designate someone to pick it up for her. The standard operating procedure has changed in this regard.

Can she still have it shipped if she specially requests that at the interview? I don't know. Maybe. Can they have it expedited so she can pick it up later Friday and still leave BOG when she originally planned? Don't know, but probably not.

Any special accomodation will be in the realm of "favors" which are not guaranteed and we can't even guess the likelihood.

Your best bet is to bite the bullet, make whatever arrangements she has to make to be able to stay and pick it up personally that Monday.

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JT says on Nov 25, 2005, 07:36:

Thats a pain Why is it that my wife can't send someone else to pick up her immigrant visa?? If that's so, then we'll have to spend Christmas weekend in Bogota while the family is in Cartagena. I know she'd love to be with her family since she is leaving them.

Has anyone been able to send someone else to pick up the IMMIGRANT VISA the next business day? thanks -jt

JT

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