American Embassy in Sydney Australia

The consulate office in Sydney Australia provides us-citizen staying in Australia with many information as well as Australians planning to visit the states, take quick view for the information below it can help a lot.

American citizens
American citizens in Australia can make use of their consulate office in many ways. They can find out which consulate office that serves their region of residence and its working hours. The consulate registers us citizens stay in Australia. It also provides information about United States & Australian customs regulations, dual nationality, travel warnings and public announcements.

As American citizen the consulate office in Sydney can be dialed in case of emergency (as death of American citizen, stolen green cards and lost passports). I you can Issue or reissue your passports during your stay in Australia the regulations and fees needed for performing these services is provided by the consulate office. American citizens in Australia can register cases of birth & death through it too.

Issuing United States visa
Visa waiver program (VWP) is applied if you are Australian, U.K., citizen and visiting the stated for less than 90 days through this program you do not need a visa. Non immigrant visa is applicable if you do not qualify for the program or you intend to stay for more than 90 days and in this case you must choose the type of the nonimmigrant visa category that suits your case. immigrant visa to the united states have four categories :

Immediate relative visa applies if you are The spouse/wife of American citizen or minor unmarried child of a United States citizen or the parent of a United States citizen who is over the age of twenty-one.

Fiancé (e) visa applies if you are planning to marry an American citizen that you met in person during the last two years. It permits you to enter the states for 90 -180 days to complete the marriage then you apply to the (USCIS) to extend your stay in the United States.

if you are:
Priority Worker who have extra ordinary abilities, Member of a Profession holding advanced degree and exceptional abilities , skilled worker holding baccalaureate degree in a profession that have shortage in the United States.

Investor who intend to invest about 500,000 – 1,000,000 $ in an enterprise and employ at least 10 unrelated employees then you apply for employment visa.
The diversity lottery visa, this visa have conditions that changes every year in accordance to us security requirement but in general to be eligible you must have completed a minimum of twelve years education including FOUR years of high school which must be the equivalent of a U.S. High School diploma . The fees of immigrant visa ranging from 400 – 800 $
Information about documentations, forms, required photos and medical examination about your application is provided by the consulate office

Information Office
the embassy IRC librarians provides answers to various topics like us-Australian relations, agricultural and international relation issues and many more topics related to the united states

Student & teacher
The embassy provides e-sources for topics like: art& culture, education, history, travel, us- government, study in the USA and many more. The e-sources can be useful to many categories as Primary school students, secondary school students and their teachers.

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