Passport validity

[devans39735]

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

My wife's interview date is April 20th, and her passport expires on December 13th. We are planning to travel to the States mid-May. This is within the 6-month passport validity deadline for travel, but her passport is 1 week shy of the 8-month validity requirement at interview time.

 

My questions are:

 

1) Can she still come to the interview since the time of travel is within the 6-month validity requirement?

 

2) If she is issued a visa, can she renew her passport before travel to the States, so she doesn't have come back and renew it before it expires in December?

 

3) If the answer to #1 is no, then how should I advise her to proceed?

 

Thanks very much for your help. This is a great service by our consulate here. Very helpful.

[USCONGUZ]

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

My wife's interview date is April 20th, and her passport expires on December 13th.  We are planning to travel to the States mid-May.  This is within the 6-month passport validity deadline for travel, but her passport is 1 week shy of the 8-month validity requirement at interview time.

 

My questions are:

 

1)  Can she still come to the interview since the time of travel is within the 6-month validity requirement?

 

2)  If she is issued a visa, can she renew her passport before travel to the States, so she doesn't have come back and renew it before it expires in December?

 

3)  If the answer to #1 is no, then how should I advise her to proceed?

 

Thanks very much for your help.  This is a great service by our consulate here.  Very helpful.

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Dear CFL Members,

 

We require that applicants have a passport with at least 6 months remaining validity before we can issue them a visa. If an applicant does not have this at the time of interview, we can still interview them, but would not be able to issue them a visa. They would have to come back and submit a valid passport whenever it was ready. Then we could put the visa in the new passport.

 

If an applicant's passport containing a US visa expires, he/she will have to renew it and most likely will have to obtain a new US visa. One cannot travel to the US using a visa in an expired passport.

 

Sincerely,

 

IV unit, US Consulate, Guangzhou, China