Required Documentation Following a Visa Refusal

If the Visa Office informed you that you may resubmit your visa revalidation application with additional or missing documentation, please submit all of the following:

• Visa refusal letter from the Visa Office, AND
• Evidence of fee payment (photocopy of bank draft, corporate check, or money order), AND
• Completed and signed Nonimmigrant Visa Application, Form DS-156. with photo that meets our standards, as shown in nonimmigrant photograph requirements, AND
• Completed Supplemental Nonimmigrant Visa Application Form DS-157 for male applicants aged 16 to 45, regardless of nationality, AND
• All required supporting documents (including previously missing items), AND
• Pre-paid courier airbill and envelope or self-addressed stamped envelope
• Do not enclose your resubmission in an inner envelope within your outer mailing envelope.

Your resubmission must be within one year of the date of your refusal letter. If you do not have time to resubmit a visa revalidation application to the Visa Office, please make a new application at a U.S. consulate or embassy abroad.
If you apply for a new visa at a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad, you must pay a new nonimmigrant visa application processing fee.

Please see these links for full information on documentation required in E, H, I, L, O, and P visa revalidation applications:

• How do I revalidate an H, L, O or P visa?
• How do I revalidate an E visa?
• How do I revalidate an I visa?

Unless the Visa Office stated in your visa refusal letter that you owe additional fees, there are no additional fees to resubmit a revalidation application with additional documentation. Therefore, do not pay a new nonimmigrant visa application processing fee with your resubmission.

Where to Send Resubmitted Applications with Additional Documentation

If your visa revalidation application was refused, the Visa Office has stated that you may resubmit your application, and you need to pay the visa issuance reciprocity fee, send the passport and documents to:

U.S. Postal Service
Department of State
P.O. Box 72099
St. Louis, MO 63195-2099

All Commercial Courier Services
Department of State
Box 72099
1005 Convention Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63101

If your visa revalidation application was refused, the Visa Office has stated that you may resubmit your application, and you are not required to pay the visa issuance reciprocity fee, send the passport and documents to:

CA/VO/P/D - Visa Office
U.S. Department of State
2401 E Street, NW (SA-1 L-703)
Washington, DC 20522-0106

Please ensure that you mark your envelope “221g.”

PLEASE NOTE: The addresses above are ONLY for use in returning revalidation applications with additional documentation when the Visa Office has stated that you may resubmit your application.

All initial revalidation applications must be sent to:

Postal Service
US Department of State/Visa
P. O. Box 952099St. Louis, MO 63195-2099
Fax: 202-663-1608

All Courier Services
US Department of State/Visa (Box 2099)
1005 Convention Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63101-1200

Related Links

Return to Revalidation homepage
Return to Visa Services homepage

(October 2003)