After you purchase the prepaid encrypted calling card, please call the visa information service center to make an appointment for a visa interview or ask questions about the visa. Please prepare the following information before calling: the applicant's full name, passport number, ID number, contact information, purpose of going to the United States, permanent residence in China and whether the visa has been refused before. Therefore, all long-distance telephone charges will be borne by the caller, and the call can usually be connected within 30 seconds.
For domestic calls, please dial: 4008-872-333 (domestic calls only, free of long-distance telephone charges, no need to dial the area code. Can't use 20 1 card, IP and other telephones, and can't use Tietong telephone. You can use a mobile phone); (021) 3881-4611(Shanghai local number). Working hours: Monday to Friday
7 am-7 pm; 8: 00 am-5:00 pm on Saturday, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide recorded telephone visa information.
Average waiting time for visa appointment: The average waiting time for visa appointment refers to the waiting time from when you call the visa information service center to the date of visa interview. For example, the recently announced waiting time for the Beijing Embassy is 2 1 day (
Therefore, if the itinerary is tight, you must get a passport and make an appointment in advance!
The specific operation steps are as follows:
1. First, prepare various materials, such as:
Chinese name, name pinyin, passport number, date of birth, ID number, visa type, validity period, contact number and e-mail. % O； w！ H8 h8 b！ e$ ^:
2. Prepare a paper and pencil record, and the number will be told on the phone (very important, remember! ), interview time.
For example, my record:No.: 049072 * * *-6 (the number called when the embassy was in line! ); Time: 65438+1 October 265438+ 0: 00 pm130: 00; Venue: American Consulate (Beijing)
Please call 4008-872-333. (pay attention to avoid the morning rush hour. It's usually easy to make a phone call after 4 pm. Maybe everyone started playing early and got bored in the afternoon, or made an appointment in the morning, so it's easy to get through at this time.
After dialing, "Welcome to embassies and consulates in China Visa Information Service Center" is played alternately in Chinese and English. After each broadcast in Chinese and English, you will be prompted to "choose the following language type" in Chinese and English. Then broadcast in the corresponding languages: 1 English, 2 Mandarin, 3 Cantonese and 4 Fuzhou Dialect. Press 2 to listen to Mandarin; ,
4. Then "Please press 1 for American citizen service, and please wait for the next choice". Be careful not to press the button, wait for about 5 seconds;
5. Next, press 1 for immigration information in the United States, press 2 for travel information in the United States, and press 2; -c-j； R & ampT2 g
6. Next, "This service is a payment service for users, and the fee is 12 minutes of 54 yuan RMB", "If you have paid by money order or postal money order, please press 1 immediately", "If you have purchased the password card of CITIC Industrial Bank, please press 2" and "If you have used this service and want to use up the remaining minutes now, please press 4". If you use the password card of CITIC Bank, press 2; )u0 N( U% G3 e* b' H
7. Note: You don't need to enter the serial number, just enter the password you scraped directly; '
8. The next step is to enter the queuing system. Please press 1 to listen to the recorded message, press 2 to fax the message to you, and press 0 to contact the customer service representative. If you want to book a visa directly, press 0 to connect with the customer service representative;
9. After pressing 0, enter the queuing system and wait for the idle customer service representative. At this time, the system will tell you that the average waiting time is 4-5 minutes, and you will be charged from the time you connect with the customer service representative. After repeated verification, if you don't have the patience to hang up at this time, your time will be deducted for one minute; 3 liters (@$ b5 H k 1 sec
10. After the connection, the waitress needs to consult your personal information about the visa: 1. Chinese name, 2. Pinyin of names, 3. Passport number, 4. Birthday, 5. Id number, 6. Contact number, 7. E-mail, etc.
Some waitresses may speak too fast on purpose, so you can't hear clearly at once. You can politely remind her to speak slowly!
1 1. Other questions she will ask you are: What kind of visa do you want (visit) or what kind of visa do you apply for? (j 1)； What day do you want to make an appointment? (For the specific date, she will automatically give you 8:30 after 22 days. You can also ask for around 1:00 in the afternoon, because the queue will start about 1.5 hours in advance. Before the interview, you have to hand in materials, take photos, press your fingerprints and get a card.); Did you sign it? (no! This question must be answered). Tell you the "reservation number" This number is 12 bit, followed by a check bit, and there is a bar between the number and the check bit. Remember this number (Miss will repeat all the information). It is said that the visa should be checked correctly on the same day, and Beijing should call the number and the last three digits of this number (excluding the check digit). Confirm the reservation number! “s； M" S# ]- X
The visa date can be selected within the range provided by them. If the date you want to make an appointment has not been determined, then you must call another day.
12. Then record the number of people and the specific time of the interview! )
13. Are you satisfied with this service? Satisfied;
14. Hang up the phone.
15. If you have made an appointment, but you can't go to the visa temporarily, you can call to cancel the appointment. Before the start of the new reservation system, if you can't get a visa on the same day, you can leave without calling to cancel-even if you call, the embassy people will ignore you, and their service attitude is very poor. Although the new system can cancel the reservation, because there is no special notice on the embassy website, it is also feasible not to go on the same day without saying hello.