Visa in Puerto Rico. How much is it and how to get?

Since Puerto Rico is fully managed by the United States of America (although it is officially considered an independent state), and the legal system of this country is based on American legislation, then for entry it is necessary to discover the US visa, which is issued in the embassy or consular departments of this country. Since visitors to this site are citizens of different countries, and not only the Russian Federation, I will add that for some countries there is a simplified system of entry into the country, under a visa-free entry program "VWP". I will now write a list of countries included in this program that readers who have citizenship of one of them are not engaged in a long procedure for designing and receiving the US visa.

Australia, Austria, Andorra, Belgium, Brunei, Chile, Hungary, Germany, Holland, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Republic Korea, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, United Kingdom, Finland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Estonia and Japan.

For citizens of the countries listed, it is necessary to obtain permission through ESTA (Electronic entry automation system). After receiving this permission, a visit to the United States, Puerto Rico and other countries to which the US visa regime is applied, for a period of ninety days. Upon arrival in one of these countries, passports are automatically scanned, and the data is entered into the database Department of Internal Security United States of America. I want to emphasize that not all citizens of the above countries can allow the entry on this program. Failure happens if earlier a citizen was attracted to criminal liability, violated the visa regime of stay could have administrative offenses, suffering from serious infectious diseases and other reasons. Without permission ESTA, Entry to the country will not be allowed. On more complete and detailed information on this issue, you can find on the site of this system. There are described all moments and requirements for those who want to obtain permission.

And now information for those who are not a citizen of the country entering a visa-free entry system.

Assistance in obtaining an entry visa of the USA has a lot of tourist and other agencies and companies that take a certain amount of money for providing this service, and in independence from whether you received a visa or you were refused. Cost, on average, starts from two hundred dollars and may increase depending on the number of necessary documents. If you want to reduce these costs, you will have to make it yourself. This procedure occurs as follows.

For a tourist or guest trip (in this case, Puerto Rico), you must open a visa type AT 2. As a rule, it is issued in a combined form, along with B-1 (business trip). As for the type of visas, it is possible to learn about it in more detail, on the US Information Service website for visas http://www.ustraveldocs.com/en_ru. Next, on the site https://ceac.state.gov/genniv It is necessary to fill out an electronic statement ( dS-160 form).
Please note that the filling is allocated to twenty minutes, and all the information must be written in English (only the name and surname are written by the font that is registered in your foreign passport). If you are experiencing that you do not put at the allotted time, copy or save the form, fill in calmly, and then make all the data. After completing it, you must print confirmation with the barcode. Attention!!! The questionnaire will need to download an electronic photo that must comply with certain parameters. This can be done in the photo-salon, throw yourself on a flash card, which is then uploaded to the questionnaire. Alone the necessary photo is made in format jPEG., with a maximum size of up to 1200x1200 pixels, and the file should not exceed more than 240 kilobytes.
Online US Immigration Department There is a special system for editing and checking photos that should be used.

Next, you need to pay the consular fee. For different countries, the amount is different, you can find it on the website of the consulate in your country. Payment is carried out in one of the banks, and the resulting receipt is suitable for one year. After that, it is necessary to sign up for an interview to the US consulate (his address you indicate in the form DS-160.).

What will be required for the interview. Fresh photo (better two, just in case) 50x50 size on a white background (photographers know the necessary parameters). A valid passport, with a validity period of at least six months (at the time of the alleged trip) and all previously used passports (if any). Paper confirming your stay in the country (hotel reservation, friends invitation, tourist trips and so on). Paper that in your country have property (real estate), close related relations (marriage certificate) and other documents. The more they are, the better it guarantees what you are not going to leave the homeland forever and increases the chances of receiving a visa. Help from work that you get a stable and decent monthly income, take a good position and so on. If there is a bank account, take an extract about the status of your account. Such papers play an important role in the decision in opening a visa for you.

The term consideration of the issue of granting a visa, in many respects, depends on the workload of the consular department and can take from several days to two or three weeks. In the case of a positive response, the passport passport is sent to the address you specified and the delivery method. Please note that in the event that for one reason or another, in obtaining a visa you will be denied, the consular fee is not refundable, so we will take this issue to seriously and provide all the papers that consulate workers will be conceded.

For children over fourteen years old, the order of obtaining a visa is exactly the same.
For younger age, you will need a birth certificate, a valid passport, passport of parents with a visa, where there is information about the presence of this child or children. For accompanying or one of the parents, it will take permission to export children, certified by the notary.

I must say that the tourist with a visa in the passport, border services can refuse to enter. Such cases are extremely rare, but they occur (mainly at the entrance to the USA), so it is better to have paper confirming the purpose of the trip (reservation at the hotel, inviting friends or relatives, back tickets to the like).

The validity period of this visa (for the first preparation) is one year. After that (if there were no violations), the term can be increased to three years.