• DS-156: Nonimmigrant Visa Application
• DS-157: Supplemental Nonimmigrant Visa Application
• DS-156E: Nonimmigrant Treaty Trader / Investor Application
• DS-156K: Nonimmigrant Fiance(e) Visa Application
• DS-117: Application to Determine Returning Resident Status
• DS-3032: Choice of Address and Agent
• DS-3052: Nonimmigrant V Visa Application

Immigrant Visa Applications

• DS-230: Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registratio

Affidavit of Support - Form I-864

• Checklist for the Affidavit of Support (Form I-864)
• General Information on the Affidavit of Support (Form I-864)
  
• Go to INS to download the new Affidavit of Support (Form I-864) Package
  
• 2001 Poverty Guidelines

Visitor and Student Visas

• Applying for a Foreign Student Visa
• Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas
• Exchange Visitors
• Exclusion from Automatic Revalidation of a Nonimmigrant Visa
• Get information on U.S. destinations
• Foreign Student Visas
• New Legal Requirements for Foreign Students in U.S. Public Schools
• Special Notice for Visa Processing
• Temporary Religious Workers
• Visa Waiver Program
• Visa Denials
• Visitors: Business & Pleasure
• What Consuls Look For - Student Visas

Immigrant Visas

• Affidavit Concerning Exemption from Immigrant Vaccination Requirements for a Foreign Adopted Child
• American Citizen-Foreign National Marriages: Visa Procedures
• Child Citizenship Act of 2000
• Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas
• Employment-based Visas
• Fact Sheet on the Child Citizenship Act of 2000
• Family-based Immigrants
• Important Update on Adoption from Cambodia
• Information Regarding Sierra Leone Immigrant Visa Processing in Dakar, Senegal
• Immigrant Religious Workers
• Immigrant Visas
• Important Notice to Immigrant Visa Applicants Concerning Vaccination Requirements
• Important Notice Regarding Form I-864
• The National Visa Center
• Returning Resident Alien
• Visa Bulletin
• Visa Bulletin Archive 1995 to present

Employment Visas

• Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas
• Employment-based Visas
• Exchange Visitors
• "I" Visas for Representatives of Foreign Information Media
• Immigrant Religious Workers
• Temporary Religious Workers
• Temporary Workers
• TN Visas: Professionals Under NAFTA
• Treaty Traders & Treaty Investors

Marriage to Foreign Nationals

• American Citizen-Foreign National Marriages: Visa Procedures
• Family-based Immigrants
• Fiancee Visas
• Immigrant Visas
• Important Notice to Immigrant Visa Applicants Concerning Vaccination Requirements

Public Charge Information

• INS Fact Sheet on Public Charge
• INS Q's and A's on Public Charge
• HHS Office for Civil Rights Public Charge Page
• HHS Q's and A's on Public Charge

Statistics

The Report of the Visa Office is a compilation of statistical data for each fiscal year. The Report includes information on all visa issuances by consular offices and on the use of visa numbers in the numerically limited categories. The sources of information for the data are workload reports from visa-issuing offices abroad and immigrant visa number allocation records maintained at the Visa Office. The Report does not contain information on refugees or on persons granted adjustment to permanent resident status by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), except to the extent that such adjustments of status in the numerically limited categories are reflected in the tables of immigrant number use. The most recent Report of the Visa Office is the 1998 edition. To obtain a copy, call Visa Services at 202-663-1225.

Other Visa Questions

• Links to the Text of Immigration Legislation
  The Immigration and Nationality Act
  Other Laws, Acts and Regulations on Immigration

• Applying for a visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate at a Canadian or Mexican border post

• INS forms and INS information (Link to Immigration and Naturalization Service)

• Information on adopting an orphan overseas:
  International Adoptions: Guidelines on Immediate Relative Petitions

• You can read the 9 FAM (Foreign Affairs Manual) on Visas on the State Department
  Freedom of Information Act site.

• Are you a U.S. citizen looking for visa information for your travels abroad?

If you are looking for a form that begins with "I" (such as I-130 or I-539) from INS, you may download or order them via mail from the INS forms page.