Visa Services

A foreign visa is an official travel document which is issued by a sovereign country.
It is either stamped or glued in the traveler’s passport and it provides permission to enter the country for a limited, predefined period of time and for a specific purpose, like tourism, business, education or work.

It may allow one entry to the country before its normal expiration (“single entry”), or it may permit the visitor to enter at various times (“multiple entry”).
It is the traveler’s soul responsibility to fully verify whether or not a visa is required for his scheduled trip.

It’s important to remember that while some countries issue a visa upon arrival, many others don’t and they have to be properly obtained in advance from the destination country’s local embassy or consulate – before leaving abroad.
Bear in mind that you may be denied entry if you do not have the appropriate visa when you arrive in a country that actually requires one, so act responsibly and do your homework properly.

Each country has its own set of requirements and procedures that need to be met in order to get approved, however, all applicants will have to submit a valid passport, recent passport-style photos and a duly filled application form bearing the applicant’s original signature.
Common additional requirements, which vary from one country to another, may be detailed itinerary information, driver’s license, vaccination certificate, health insurance, a letter of invitation, employment letter, a recent monthly bank statement or other supporting documents.

What Countries Require Travel Visas From U.S. Citizens?

While many countries around the world allow US passport holders to enter their borders freely without issuing a visa first, some countries do not.
The following countries require issuing a visa for foreign entry:

• Afghanistan
• Algeria
• Angola
• Australia
• Azerbaijan
• Bangladesh
• Belarus
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Brazil
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• China
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Eritrea
• Gabon
• Ghana
• Guinea
• India
• Indonesia
• Iran
• Iraq
• Kenia
• Liberia
• Libya
• Mozambique
• Myanmar (Formerly Burma)
• Nauru
• Niger
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Qatar
• Republic of the Congo
• Russia
• Saudi Arabia
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Tanzania
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen

What Do Expedited Foreign Visa Companies Do?

Such services help individuals, travel agents and corporate clients obtain travel visas.
Getting a foreign visa can be a very tedious, time consuming and complicated process, which often involves standing in crowded, never-ending lines or having to deal with limited and inconvenient local embassy or consulate working hours.

These expeditors submit the application as well as other required materials and supplemental paperwork on the customer’s behalf for a fee.
This paid service practically eliminates the customer’s need to allocate meaningful time resources and face the bureaucratic hassle of dealing directly with the embassy or consulate of the relevant destination country.

Additionally, the time it takes to process a visa application varies from one country to another.
However, since many expeditors have developed close and special working relationships with the different counterparts in the countries’ foreign consular staff in the United States, it enables them to process emergency, rush and last-minute applications that can potentially cut down the turnaround time significantly.
While some applications can be completed the same day they are submitted and some can be ready by the next day – others can take several days to process and even longer.

Expeditor’s websites usually provide detailed information about the associated service fee costs as well as estimated processing time for each country’s visa, so the customer can get a pretty good idea how long it will take to get approved, using the company.
In most cases, the customer gets his stamped passport back 24 hours after the process is done through an express courier like FedEx and UPS, using overnight shipping.