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Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
December 8, 2008


Expanded Visa Services at Embassy Baghdad

Embassy Baghdad will begin processing immigrant visas on February 1, 2009. Immigrant visa applicants who had previously scheduled appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Ankara, or Cairo but were unable to travel to those appointments may now contact the National Visa Center at nvccongressional@state.gov or (603) 334-0700 to have their cases transferred from other immigrant visa processing posts and scheduled for interview in Baghdad. The National Visa Center will also begin routing and scheduling all immigrant visa cases for beneficiaries residing in Iraq for Baghdad.

This new service is possible because of the transfer of consular operations to new facilities in Baghdad, improved access arrangements, appointment of panel physicians and an increase in consular staffing. Pending Iraqi immigrant visa cases will not be automatically transferred to Baghdad. Those with pending cases living outside of Iraq will not have to return to Iraq for a visa interview in Baghdad.

Those Iraqi immigrant visa applicants with pending cases may choose to contact the National Visa Center to have their cases transferred to Baghdad or they may choose to pursue their previously scheduled visa interview in Amman, Ankara, or Cairo.

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Released on December 8, 2008

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