American Embassy in wellington New Zealand

The consulate office of the United States embassy in wellington performs its services for both American citizens and New Zealand citizens in many ways.

American citizens department
American citizens’ department in New Zealand wellington can provide the citizens with a lot of information and services like:
Us citizen registration registering your stay during the visit can be done through the secure site of the consulate office.
Births given by American citizens outside the U.S. births should be register in the consulate office in order to claim the child’s American nationality, national security number, and United States passport if he is eligible. The consulate office issue American birth certificates for these children.

Marriage
Marriage takes place between American citizen and a New Zealand spouse/wife or another foreigner resident in New Zealand should be registered in the embassy office. if you are intending to issue a visa for your spouse / wife the office will give you all the information needed but you have to direst to the embassy general in Auckland to issue this visa.

Medical care
The consulate provides the list of doctors/ hospitals that give medical attention to foreigners. The list contains name, address, phone number and facilities of the hospital
The consulate office explains how the notary services for documents can be done

Emergency, legal assistance list are some of the services that the consulate provides for its citizens

Passport issuing & renewals can be done through the consulate office in wellington, The citizen can request the application for issuing his new passport, renew exciting passport, report stolen passport, fees are 100$ us dollars for issuing a new passport
You also can order extra pages for your passport or ask for extending your passport

United States visa
Immigrant visas are issued from the consulate office in Auckland for New Zealand citizens intending to stay permanently in the United States and fall under one of the following categories: immediate relative, fiancé (e), and diversity lottery visa.
Every category of the immigrant visa is subjected to its own regulation which should be fulfilled in order to get the visa.

The diversity lottery visa,
One of the categories of immigrant visa but with regulation changed every year by the United States government due to security purposes but in general the requirements are: minimum of twelve years education including FOUR years of high school which must be the equivalent of a U.S. High School diploma.

The specific regulation changes every year due to United States security
According to the visa type you are applying for, you will be asked to take an appointment and fill all the required forms, along with presenting you documentation, medical examination, personal photos

Non immigrant visa
If you are applying for non immigrant visa, check first if you qualify for the visa waiver program which may permit you, if you are eligible, to enter the united states for limited period (less than 90 days) without a visa. If this program cannot be applied in your case so before issuing your visa you must know that there are many kinds of visas like studying in U.S., tourism & business, dependant, 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 be get from the office in Willington but the application and admission for the visa should be done through the main office in Auckland

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