Important Notices

• Applicants with a confirmed interview appointment for a U.S visa in Abuja or Lagos may proceed for their interview as scheduled. Your passport will be delivered to you at the document delivery center as previously selected by you.

• Applicants who have previously purchased an MRV fee receipt which is still valid, and have not yet scheduled an interview appointment are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. You can use your MRV fee receipt until April 30^th 2011 to schedule an interview appointment.
  
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  • If you are using the current website before March 1^st 2011 and have a valid MRV fee receipt for $140 and a valid VFS services charge receipt for N5800, then the changes are not applicable to you. Please schedule as advised on this website and download your appointment letter.
  • If you decide to use the new appointment system on or after March 1^st 2011, you can register yourself in the new system, confirm that you have a valid MRV fee receipt and schedule an interview appointment. You must carry the original receipt for $140 paid before March 1st 2011 for your interview. If you cannot produce the original receipt your interview may be cancelled.
  
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  • You will not require to pay the VFS service charge of N5800 to schedule an appointment with effect from March 1^st 2011.
  • UBA Plc will accept the VFS service charge fee only till 18^th Feb 2011. Only applicants who have an urgent need to travel and must use the current system to schedule an interview are advised to pay the VFS service charge.
  • The current VFS website will not be available to you as of March 1^st 2011 as the U.S Embassy is changing to a new appointment service.

• We encourage applicants who have not yet paid the MRV fee to avoid doing so till March 1^st 2011 unless they have an urgent need to travel. The new list of banking locations will be available to you on the new website.

	United States Consulate General, Public Affairs Section, 2, Broad Street, P.O. Box 554 Lagos. Cell: 07031502444, 07031504867, Website at http://nigeria.usembassy.gov
PRESS RELEASE
May 26, 2010

U.S. Department of State Announces New Nonimmigrant Visa Application Fees

The U.S. Department of State announces a worldwide increase in visa application processing fees for certain categories of nonimmigrant visas. The Department of State is increasing fees to ensure sufficient resources to cover the rising cost of processing nonimmigrant visas. The U.S. Embassy in Abuja and the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos will begin collecting the new fees from nonimmigrant visa applicants having interviews scheduled on or after June 4, 2010.

Under the new worldwide schedule of fees, applicants for all visas that are not petition-based, including B1/B2 tourist and business visitor visas and all student and exchange visitor (F, M and J) visas, will pay a fee of $140. The new application fee for petitioned-based work visas (H, L, O, P, Q, and R visas) will be $150; for fiancé or K visas, $350; and for investor or E visas, $390. All fees are payable in U.S. dollars or equivalent in Naira. This is an application fee and does not ensure a visa will be issued.

Beginning June 4, visa applicants can pay the $140 visa application fee at any of the existing UBA branches that collect these fees on behalf of the U.S. Mission. Over 95% of nonimmigrant visa applicants in Nigeria will be covered by the $140 fee. Applicants applying for work visas, fiancé visas or investor visas can pay the additional visa application process fee at either the U.S. Embassy in Abuja or the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos on the day of the interview. Please note, all applicants whose visa interview is on or after June 4, 2010 must pay the new fee. Applicants who paid the lower visa application process fee of $131 and have an interview on or after June 4 will be required to pay the additional fee amount on the day of the interview at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja or the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos.

The new, tiered fee structure was created to cover the higher costs for processing certain categories of nonimmigrant visas that are more complicated and require more in-depth consideration. The Department of State is required to recover, as far as possible, the cost of processing nonimmigrant visas through the collection of the application fees. For a number of reasons, including new security enhancements, the $131 fee set on January 1, 2008, no longer covers the current, actual cost of processing nonimmigrant visas.

Additional information about the visa application process can be found at the U.S. Mission website http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/

As of March 9, 2010, the Consular Electronic Application Center website is now fully functional and accessible to visa applicants after experiencing a period of technical difficulties. All applicants should proceed with completing a DS-160 prior to their visa interviews. The staff of U.S. Embassy Abuja and U.S. Consulate General Lagos will continue to accommodate all applicants who scheduled visa interviews during the period March 1-12, 2010. We apologize for the inconvenience while the system was under repair. For more information, see http://nigeria.usembassy.gov

By March 1, 2010, all persons applying for a U.S. non-immigrant visa in Abuja or Lagos will be required to submit visa applications via the Internet using the DS-160 online visa application form.
Click here for more information. http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/pg_02192010.html

U.S. Visa appointment and pass back service fee increase October 2, 2009

The U.S. Mission to Nigeria announces an increase in the visa online appointment and passport pass back fee from 3500 Naira to 5800 Naira, effective Monday, October 5. The fee increase is necessary due to the rising costs of maintaining the appointment and pass back services in Abuja and Lagos and the expansion of visa applicant in-take services at the U.S Embassy and the U.S. Consulate General. As before, fees are paid at selected branches of UBA. For additional information on the appointment process and fee payment, please consult the VFS-Global website at http://www.usa-vfsglobal-ng.com

New Visa Service for American Embassy October 29, 2008

All information about getting a U.S. Visa, from general questions to specific application instructions, is being given out by the Embassy's new partner, VF Global Services Nigeria Limited

VFS has operators on call during the day to answer all your questions about visas:

• Do I need one?
• Is my old one still good?
• What kind of visa do I need?

VFS will also be there to answer your questions about applying for a visa and using the new on-line scheduling system. They can help you with questions like:

• What forms do I need?
• How do I fill out the electronic forms?
• Where do I pay the fee?
• When can I schedule an interview?
• What happens at the interview?

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You can contact VFS in several ways for general questions and for scheduling the interview:

• By phone at 01 - 951 5183
• By e-mail at infousnigeria@vfshelpline.com
• At their homepage http://www.usa-vfsglobal-ng.com
• At their Application Center at:
  

  Lagos	VF Global Services Nigeria Ltd., Block 94, Plot 23, Providence Street, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lekki scheme 1, Lagos - Nigeria.
  Abuja	VF Global Service Nigeria Ltd., No 38, Lobito Crescent, Wuse II, Abuja - Nigeria

Application Centre is open from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Telephonic queries will be answered from 8:00am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 4:00pm. VFS operates Monday - Friday (except Nigerian and U.S. holidays).

General information is free. To schedule an appointment, you must pay N 5800 as service charges which includes VFS service charges - N 5502 (inclusive of VAT 5%) & UBA Plc service charges N 298 (inclusive of VAT 5%) at selected branches of UBA Plc. Your receipt from the bank towards VFS fees will allow you on-line to schedule an appointment.

The N 5800 fee guarantees you:

• a confirmed appointment time at your earliest possible convenience
• a convenient system for canceling appointment.
• a list of detailed instructions on what to bring for the appointment
• electronic and phone support for on-line application questions
• sample application forms for reference
• collection of processed visa/passport at VFS centre
  
  

  By March 1, 2010, all persons applying for a U.S. non-immigrant visa in Abuja or Lagos will be required to submit visa applications via the Internet using the DS-160 online visa application form. Click here for more information. http://nigeria.usembassy.gov/pg_02192010.html

  
  
  

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