THERE IS Direct Consular Filing in El Salvador!

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Don’t know how many, if any, people out there are doing Direct Consular Filing here in El Salvador. I have seen an Info sheet here on VJ about the embassy that says there is no DFC in El Salvador, but there is.

If you go to the El Salvador Embassy web site at http://sansalvador.usembassy.gov/ under the Department of Homeland Security, read under Citizenship and Immigration Service or CIS. It says that among cases under CIS jurisdiction are “immigrant visa petitions for spouses and children under 21 of U.S. citizens who permanently reside in El Salvador.” And while it says that “The CIS office provides multiple services to US Citizens and receives personal inquiries Mondays and Wednesdays, between 7:30 and 9:30 a.m. at the USAID building adjacent to the Chancery.” when I asked the guard last week he said it was 7am to 9am, he tried to verify what I had read online, but no one answered. I also asked some Promotor lady because I needed to know if they served until 9:30 so I could run home and get the documentation, but she said they stopped at 9 am. Of course since today I got there at 7 they told me that they started at 7:30am until 9:30am =).

Also, the USAID building will be the first entrance you come accross if you are at the corner of Conchagua and Santa Elena and walk towards the Embassy, I don’t believe it is labeled DHS or anything. First you walk past the waiting area, then by the restrooms, then comes this entrance and last comes the US citizen services entrance.

Anyhow if you do DCF in El Salvador the lady at the window said you need to prove you have lived here for the past SIX MONTHS. The transaction of $355 at the moment, can be paid CREDIT CARD or CASH, but NOT DEBIT CARD.She said you can get a Movimiento Migratorio from the Direccion General de Migracion de El Salvador (by the way she gave me the wrong name of the place). Or you can get some other form of proof, like if you worked here or went to school or someplace that shows you have resided here. I asked if my passport was not enough to show I had been in El Salvador for most of the time, but she said that Passports were not reliable.

Well, if you choose to get a Movimiento Migratorio, you go to Direccion General de Migracion which is at “El Centro de Gobierno”, which is on the Alameda Juan Pablo II where all the government “ministerios” are located. There are several routes that go by, we took the R-11, but just ask for one that goes by “Centro de Gobierno”. So I went towards this place which is adjacent a tall ‘brown’ 70’s style building one block down from Alameda Juan Pablo II. The guard will ask you what your business in and will direct you. The lady at the window said that a Movimiento Migratorio costs six dollars and it would take three to four working days to get one. Oddly enough, and I am not sure who this is directed at, but there is a posting from the U.S. Embassy at the window saying that you do not need to get a “movimiento migratorio” unless you have a letter from the Embassy requiring one.

(Either way, we decided not to get one since it would take too long anyway, because we needed it by Monday and we will try to prove it with other documents.)

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DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE MIGRACIÓN

Alameda Juan Pablo II, Edificio Migración Centro de Gobierno San Salvador

Tel: 221-2111

Tele Fax: 249-7608

E Mail: rhernandez@migracion.gob.sv

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