i have a friend who lives in colombia, south america and she wants to visit me in the US. what do we do?
My friend is a student at the university in colombia, south america. when her term is finished she wants to visit here for a few months, but she says i have to write a letter of invitation to her and i have to go through an investigation with an embassy or something. we don't really understand. please help.
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Here's the scoop. Colombians are required to have a Visa to travel here. That would take time and can be hard to get. Americans can visit there as a tourist on their passports. So you can go there. I know of a 3rd option. You may both visit Panama on your passports. As of 4 years ago Colombians no longer need visas to travel and tour there.
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just google it. "US travel from Colombia"...or tell her to check on a "Student Visa". I think that this is the easiest. good luck
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She will have to apply for a B-2 visa...starting with the page below and following all instructions there. You may write a letter for her to submit with her application. You need to give your name, address, contact info, and state that you will provide housing and meet all your friends financial needs while she is in the states. she will submit your letter with her application. However, often , that letter actually means nothing. The BIG thing the visa officer at her interview will look for is that she has compelling reasons to return to her home when her approved time in the u.S. is up. This is very hard for a young university student to do. They will be looking for proof that she has a home of her own, a business, a large amount of money in the bank. They ALWAYS presume that the person applying for a tourist visa id going to violate that visa and stay in the U.S. They clearly state that on the visa application site. It happens so often, that it is therfore almost impossible for a young person from Latin America to get a visa to the U.S....even with a sponsor. If she happens to be from a very wealthy family and still lives with them, she may have a chance.
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I wouldn't get involved. Its very difficult and you could face problems if she decides to stay here permanently.
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Elizabeth: first you need to know is the US government trough they embassy in Colombia is who decide who is come and who is not. The process for a Colombian obtain the visa is the follow: make the appointment in the Us embassy in Bogota and pay the fee for,this just allow to you friend can see the INS officer , from there , they will see and check different things like what she do in Colombia,income,if she have warnings on US, and other aspects, basic they look for she don't come to stay here as Illegal. Is a different types of visa: tourist,business,work,fiance,training and others and each one have conditions,requirements and benefices on each category and any one is only approval by the Embassy,is weird but some times you have every thing to come here and they denied you and other times just give you the visa just with out ask nothing, the document you friend ask is probably 2 letters: one is a just plain invitation where you wrote you are invite this friend because....... the second one is a legal form call I134 I believe, and is affidavit where you make you self responsible for you friend housing and boring for specific times days , you will found the form in the INS web site, but even you send this letter is not guaranty of she is going to get her visa. I suggest she toke the chance and see if the luck is with her and go to the embassy and follow the process, the second option you fly to Colombia and in that case the only risk is you wanna stay there since is so beautifully, and the third option will be meet in some other country probable like Panama where you don't need visa and she just pay $5 for her visa ( she buy the permit in the panama airport at the customs) or maybe costa rica but in that case she need to get visa.
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