{"id":5687,"date":"2003-12-19T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/further-changes-to-us-visa-requirements\/"},"modified":"2003-12-19T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T01:43:56","slug":"further-changes-to-us-visa-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/12\/19\/further-changes-to-us-visa-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Further changes to US visa requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States embassy has announced new requirements for those seeking entry visas to the US. As of Tuesday 16 December, applicants must go through a new procedure, and can expect to wait as long as 17 weeks for an appointment with a consular official. Prospective travelers are therefore advised to make their plans well in advance. After paying the US$100 fee in pesos at the equivalent exchange rate, applicants need to buy a PIN (personal identification number) at the bank. Next, they must call the visa information service at (809) 200-3232 and arrange for an appointment for travel, study, business and transit visas. There are two types of PINs: one costing US$5.25 and another which costs US$16 and which allows the applicant an extended telephone conversation time of 15 minutes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States embassy has announced new requirements for those seeking entry visas to the US. As of Tuesday 16 December, applicants must go through a new procedure, and can expect to wait as long as 17 weeks for an appointment with a consular official. Prospective travelers are therefore advised to make their plans well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/12\/19\/further-changes-to-us-visa-requirements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}