Visa Services

EXPANDED OFFICE HOURS AT U.S. CONSULAR AGENCY COCHABAMBA STARTING MARCH 05, 2007

Effective March 05, 2007, in order to better respond to our customers and provide enhanced consular services the U.S. Consular Agency in Cochabamba will expand its public hours.  The new hours will be:

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
08:30AM to 12:30PM  (except U.S. and local holidays)
Tuesday and Thursday
08:30AM to 12:30PM and
2:00PM to 3:00PM      (except U.S. and local holidays)

We hope that the earlier start time and the added afternoon hours will facilitate U.S. citizens and other consular clients accessing the consular services they seek.  To avoid common impediments to quicker processing (such as incorrectly done photographs and insufficient documents), please first check the requirements of the relevant service at
http://bolivia.usembassy.gov/information_for_travelers.html
Please note that the consular agencies provide only certain American Citizen Services, such as receiving applications for passports and consular reports of birth abroad that are then forwarded to the U.S. Embassy in La Paz for adjudication and processing.  This includes applications for emergency passports.  Consular agencies may receive such applications but are not authorized to approve the applications or issue passports.  Instead, all passport applications including emergency ones must be sent to La Paz for processing, adjudication by the consular officer, printing of approved passport applications and return to the consular agency.

For visa information or assistance, please consult our Web site at http://bolivia.usembassy.gov/general_information3.html and/or contact the Visa Information Services Call Center described above.  If after reviewing the information on our Web site and conferring with the Visa Information Services Call Center you still have specific visa questions, please contact the Visa Unit at consularlapaz@state.gov.  Questions concerning American Citizen Services that cannot be answered by the information on the Web site or the consular agencies may be directed to the American Citizen Services Unit at USCit.Services.Bolivia@gmail.com.