Important Notices

The US Department of State's Consular Section at the U.S. Embassy Seoul is divided into four branches: Nonimmigrant Visas (NIV), Immigrant Visas (IV), American Citizen Services (ACS) and Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU).

Nonimmigrant Visas (NIV)

Nonimmigrant Visas (NIV) are for non-American citizens and non Legal Permanent Residents who want to visit, tour, study or do business in the U.S.

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• Announcement! Each visa application must be processed on its own, even for family members who apply together. Due to various processing times, even if you have a visa interview with your family members on the same day, everyone's visa may not be ready on the same day. Therefore we ask that each passport have a separate courier slip attached.
  
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Immigrant Visa (IV) allow spouses and other immediate relatives of U.S. Citizens, as well as other qualified persons, to live permanently in the U.S. Start here if you have questions about Green Cards, or petitioning for relatives to live permanently in the United States. 

 

Our address in Korea (international postage needed from outside Korea; transit time from the U.S. is about one week):

U.S. Embassy
Consular Section
32 Sejongno, Jongno-gu
Seoul 110-710, Rep. of Korea

Our APO address (U.S. domestic postage needed, even from outside of Korea; transit time from the U.S. is about ten days):

U.S. Embassy Seoul
Consular Section
APO AP 96205-5550 USA

How to Contact Us by FAX

From outside of Korea the country code is 82, and the city code for Seoul is 2. From within Korea, please use area code 02.

  American Citizen Services FAX:

FAX : 82-2-397-4101
DSN FAX : 721-4101

  Immigrant Visas FAX: (including K visas)

FAX : 82-2-397-4501
DSN FAX : 721-4501

  Nonimmigrant Visas FAX:

FAX : 82-2-725-6843 (all inquiries except for E, H, L, O, P, and Q visas)
FAX : 82-2-736-6839 ( E, H, L, O, P, and Q visas only)
DSN FAX : 721-4214

  American Citizen Services:

E-mail inquiries at: seoul_acs@state.gov

  Immigrant Visas : (including K visa)

E-mail inquiries at: seouliv@state.gov

  Nonimmigrant Visas:

E-mail inquiries at: seoulniv@state.gov (all inquiries except for E, H, L, O, P, and Q visa visas)

E-mail inquiries at: seoulgoldteam@state.gov (E, H, L, O, P and Q visas)

Please allow three to five working days for a reply. Please do not send your inquiry as an attachment. Approximately 10% of our replies come back to us as "undeliverable." If you do not hear from us within five working days, please send us a fax or e-mail us from a different e-mail account. We have the most difficulty getting replies through to Lycos and Nate e-mail accounts. In accordance with the Privacy Act, our responses to inquiries will be of a general nature.