American Embassy in Bussan Korea

As the physical embassy in Seoul cannot cover all the needs of American citizens, who are in Korea, to perform many services through the embassy. So the virtual presence post of the United States embassy in Bussan, Korea to allow American citizens to perform some services as well as Korean citizens to know about their visas too. You can get to know here this virtual embassy and what services can be done through it for both nationalities

The American citizens section
Many services can be done here as:
Passport services : including issuing passports, renew old ones, add extra visa pages, extend their passport validity, report stolen passports and green cards and fill these forms till the counselor officer collect these forms and applications in scheduled times.
Birth registration: American citizens giving birth overseas have to register their children in the embassy in order to get a birth certificate, social security number and American passport

Notary services: the embassy notarize the documents in order to be used in the United States
Child adoption: you can find through the VPP much information about how to adopt a child and the regulations needed to take him / her back to the United States

Voting service: it is one of the important services that the consulate (VPP) does for American citizens overseas.
Along with the services the consulate provides the American citizens with very useful information about medical care and where they can find hospitals and doctors in Korea also the consulate provides the citizens with list of attorneys if needed in any case. The consulate offers help in cases of emergency by providing phone number to report your emergency to the duty officer in charge.

For the Korean citizens, the consulate (VPP) displays all the regulations that they have to follow in order to issue their visa
If you are intending to visit the United States temporarily, before you apply for nonimmigrant visa check the visa waiver program because if you qualify you are not going to need a visa to enter the United States.

There are many kinds of non immigrant visa so you have to point the one for your case. The non immigrant visa categories are tourism, study, religious workers and others and you have to choose which category that you fall under. All the qualification for every category can be found in the consulate (VPP) then you apply to the main consulate office in Seoul
Immigrant visa to the United States

Immigration to the United States is subjected to many rules and requirements. Applying to the immigrant visa is done in the physical consulate office in Seoul, if you are eligible to one of the following categories: immediate relative to American citizen, fiancé (e) of American citizen, special immigrant and diversity lottery

The diversity lottery electronic draw is done every year on November / December, on preceding October the United States government announces the rules for this lottery and this rule may change every year due to security matters.

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