General Information

There are two main types of visas, Immigrant Visas and Non-Immigrant Visas. An Immigrant Visa allows a person to live, study and work in the U.S. indefinitely as a resident. To find out more about Immigrant Visas click here.  Different categories of Non-Immigrant visas allow the bearer to visit the United States temporarily for business, tourism, studies, or to work.


Non-Immigrant Visas

To apply for a Non-Immigrant visa, all applicants, regardless of age, must pay a $131 visa fee and have a valid passport (the passport must be valid for at least 6 months after the date of the visa interview). Since a Non-Immigrant visa requires that the stay in the U.S. be temporary, the applicant must prove that he or she does not intend to stay in the U.S. indefinitely.

To obtain a step-by-step outline of today's U.S. visa application procedures click here.

If the applicant lives in the provinces of Galapagos, Manabi, Guayas, Los Rios, El Oro, Cañar, Azuay, Loja, Zamora Chinchipe see consular district, he or she must apply for a Non-Immigrant visa at the U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil. If the applicant lives in any other province or region of Ecuador, he or she must apply for a Non-Immigrant visa at the U.S. Embassy in Quito. Only residents of Ecuador should apply for a non-immigrant visa in Ecuador. Residents of other countries, even if they are Ecuadorian citizens, should apply in their country of residence.

To find out how to obtain a visa for business and domestic employees click here.

To find out how to obtain a visa for tourism click here.

To find out how to obtain a visa to study click here.

To find out how to obtain an exchange program visa click here.

To find out how to obtain a visa to work click here.

To find out about other Non-immigrant visas click here.