Applying for B2 visa in a neighboring country

[meaganissillay 0]

Hey all,

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with applying for a B2 visitor visa in a neighboring country.

 

Due to political unrest in Nicaragua, the U.S. Embassy has not been accepting any type of visa application (they're only accepting emergency services for U.S. citizens at this time) since May. My boyfriend and I have been planning to travel to the U.S. together in October.

 

Now we are planning to travel from Nicaragua to Honduras so he can apply and have his interview.

 

My boyfriend was already granted a B2 visa last year in July, we visited and then he returned to Nicaragua within the terms of his visa, so I am not asking for advice as to whether or not he will be accepted. I simply want to know if anyone has experience applying for a visitor visa from a "third-party" country.

 

More specifically, if anyone knows how the payment process would work? Last time we submitted the application online but he paid the application fee in-person at a Nicaraguan bank. We are wondering if we would still apply online to the embassy in Honduras and then pay the fee in a Nicaraguan or Honduran bank... we obviously need to pay this fee in order to schedule the interview, so we want to make sure we get it right the first time. 

 

If anyone can shed some light on how this works or what your experience was, please share.

 

 

 

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9 minutes ago, meaganissillay said:

Hey all,

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with applying for a B2 visitor visa in a neighboring country.

 

Due to political unrest in Nicaragua, the U.S. Embassy has not been accepting any type of visa application (they're only accepting emergency services for U.S. citizens at this time) since May. My boyfriend and I have been planning to travel to the U.S. together in October.

 

Now we are planning to travel from Nicaragua to Honduras so he can apply and have his interview.

 

My boyfriend was already granted a B2 visa last year in July, we visited and then he returned to Nicaragua within the terms of his visa, so I am not asking for advice as to whether or not he will be accepted. I simply want to know if anyone has experience applying for a visitor visa from a "third-party" country.

 

More specifically, if anyone knows how the payment process would work? Last time we submitted the application online but he paid the application fee in-person at a Nicaraguan bank. We are wondering if we would still apply online to the embassy in Honduras and then pay the fee in a Nicaraguan or Honduran bank... we obviously need to pay this fee in order to schedule the interview, so we want to make sure we get it right the first time. 

 

If anyone can shed some light on how this works or what your experience was, please share.

 

 

 

Payment is always embassy-specific. You’d need to look at the website of the US embassy in Honduras to see what they do. If they are generally responsible for Nicaraguan applicants they may even have a special note for how these are to pay. 

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The embassy page has pretty detailed instructions on paying the fee in Honduras:

 

http://www.ustraveldocs.com/hn/hn-niv-paymentinfo.asp