Immigrant Visas
Beginning April 1, 2008 all immigrant visa services have been consolidated at the Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem.
Any inquires concerning your immigrant visa case should be sent to the Consulate in Jerusalem at the following address:
American Consulate General
Immigrant Visa Section
PO Box 290, 91002
Jerusalem
General information about Immigrant Visa processing can be found at http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/immigrant_visas.html. Meanwhile, if you have a question about your immigrant visa case, the best option is to contact the Immigrant Visa Section by email at jerusalemiv@state.gov.
Transportation letters
The visa section in Tel Aviv is still providing services for lost and stolen green cards. If you have lost your green card or it was stolen, please click here Lost, stolen or expired Green Cards.
Additional Links
- Kentucky Consular Center (KCC handles the Diversity Visa Lottery Program and can answer DV related questions. You may also reach them by phone (606) 526-7500, by fax (606) 526-7501 or via email at kccdv@state.gov)
- National Visa Center (The permanent Immigrant Visa processing facility in the United States)
- Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the INS)
- The Bureau of Consular Affairs at the U.S. Department of State
Consulate Cautions Against Diversity Visa Scams
The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem advises the public of a notable increase in fraudulent emails and letters sent to Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) program (Visa Lottery) applicants. The scammers behind these fraudulent emails and letters are posing as the U.S. Government in an attempt to extract payment from DV applicants.
In a recent DV scam, an email instructs recipients to send money via Western Union to a fictitious person at the U.S. Embassy in London. If you have received this email, you have been targeted by con artists. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should money be sent to any address for participation in the DV Lottery. The only official way to receive status updates is through the DV program website at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/. Entrants will also not be asked to send money to the Kentucky Consular Center (KCC) or any U.S. embassy or consulate. All application fees will be paid at the time of the individual’s interview at the U.S. embassy or consulate.
DV entrants for DV-2011 can check their status online through the U.S. Department of State secure online site, http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/, until June 2011. Entrants who completed online DV-2012 entries will not receive notification letters from the KCC. Rather, they must check the status of their entries themselves through the Entrant Status Check available at http://www.dvlottery.state.gov/ between May 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012.
Complaints about unwanted e-mails that appear to be DV scams may be submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. For more information on filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice go to www.usdoj.gov/spam.htm. All applicants for the DV program should be familiar with information about DV scams compiled by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission website: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt003.shtm.
Applicants are encouraged to review the rules and procedures for the DV program so that they know what to expect, when to expect it, and from whom. More information about the DV program is available at www.dvlottery.state.gov.
For more information please contact the U.S. Consulate’s Press Office at 02-622-6908 or 02-622-6909 or Hassna Dajani at 054-678-8455.