American Embassy in Vientiane Laos

The U.S. embassy consulate office in Laos: Vientiane offers a lot of services for both U.S.-citizens staying in Laos and for Laos’s citizens planning to visit the states or reside there. Let us take a view at services of the office gives you an idea about but what you can do there.

American citizens’ services
The embassy serves the American citizens resident in Laos in many ways. For example, registering us citizens stay in Laos. The embassy also brings to you information about travel warnings and public announcements. The consulate office in Vientiane provides phone numbers that American citizens can dial in case of emergency as death of American citizen, stolen green cards and lost passports. If you are American citizen and you wish to Issue or reissue your passports you can know the regulations and fees needed for performing these services. American citizens in Laos can register cases of birth & death through the consulate office. The child can claim his American nationality, national security number, and United States passport if he is eligible. The consulate office issue American birth certificates for these children.

Fees
The fees for passport services ranges from 75 to 100 $ us dollars according to the desired service
Voting for election from overseas can take place through the consulate office in Vientiane. The office provides the application for absentee application and ballots. The votes are collected in the consulate and sent back to the us

Medical care
The consulate can provide people who are in need to medical attention with a list of hospitals/ doctors in the Korea, who can give them medical treatment
adoption of Korean child, legal assistance in Korea, social security, notary services , emergency assistance are some of the services that the consulate provides for its citizens

United States visa
If you are applying for non immigrant visa you must know that there are many kinds of visas like studying in U.S., tourism & business, dependant, exchanging visitors, employment and others. The consulate office provides the application forms for every type of visa along with information on how to apply to the visa, set an appointment, the required documentation. The location of the consulate, the working hours, holidays and phone &fax numbers could get from the office in Vientiane.

Immigrant visa
if you are planning to immigrate to the united states the immigrant visa differs according to your case: 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 then you apply for immediate relative visa .

If you are planning to marry an American citizen and reside in the states you have to apply for Fiancé (e) visa, this visa allows 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 and after 2 years apply once more to remove the conditional stay please note that this visa requires that you have met your partner within the last two years in person.

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 has every year changeable conditions 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.

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