Foreign Service posts; designation for special fee payment procedures,

[Federal Register: December 5, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 234)]

[Notices]

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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Bureau of Consular Affairs

[Public Notice 3850]

Designation of Certain Posts for Special Fee Payment Procedures

This public notice adds additional posts, located in India and Vietnam, to those already designated by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services for two purposes related to the payment of immigrant visa fees. The first purpose relates to the revised procedure for payment of the fee for the processing of the application for an immigrant visa set forth in the Federal Register on September 8, 2000, (65 FR 54598). The effective date of that notice was stayed until January 1, 2001 by a public notice in the Federal Register of December 14, 2000, (65 FR 78243).

The second purpose is to identify the posts for which a fee pursuant to Item 61 of the Schedule of Fees for Consular Services (22 CFR 22.1) will be assessed for advance review of and assistance with the Affidavit of Support that is required in certain immigrant visa cases. Notice of this fee requirement was added to the visa regulation pertaining to the Affidavit of Support requirement in 22 CFR 40.41(b), and was effective January 1, 2001.

The Department will publish further public notices as additional designations are made.

The Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services has designated the Foreign Service posts in the following cities for participation in the new immigrant visa application processing fee payment system and the fee for review of and assistance with the Affidavit of Support required under section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The effective date of this notice is October 1, 2001.

Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire Accra, Ghana Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Algiers, Algeria Antananarivo, Madagascar Bogota, Colombia Cairo, Egypt Chennai, India Casablanca, Morocco Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Cotonou, Benin Dakar, Senegal Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Djibouti, Djibouti Freetown, Sierra Leone Georgetown, Guyana Guangzhou, China Harare, Zimbabwe Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Johannesburg, South Africa Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Lagos, Nigeria Libreville, Gabon Lilongwe, Malawi Lome, Togo Lusaka, Zambia Manila, Philippines Monrovia, Liberia Montreal, Canada Mumbai, India Nairobi, Kenya New Delhi, India

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Niamey, Niger Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Port-au-Prince, Haiti Praia, Cape Verde Islands Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Tirana, Albania Tunis, Tunisia Yaounde, Cameroon

Dated: November 26, 2001. Wayne G. Griffith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services, U.S. Department of State.

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