Every applicant will need to prove identity. Bring these items to your interview:

 

• Six or more personal photos with the primary applicant and petitioner (and spouse and children if they are applying) taken over a period of time; also include a copy of the petitioner's U.S. passport or Permanent Resident Card.
• Personal correspondence, home telephone records or financial records showing an ongoing relationship.
• Proof of joint property ownership, joint financial obligations or remittances from the petitioner
• Baptismal records, medical records, school records and year books with photos, old and current professional ID's.
• All old passports.
• Any other evidence you feel might be helpful.



• NBI clearance and police clearance. Applicants aged 16 or older must have a valid Record Clearance for Travel Abroad Purposes from the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and a Police Certificate from every other country where they have lived for one year or more since reaching the age of 16 (six months or more for K visa applicants).

• Police clearances should be in the applicant's current name, birth certificate name, maiden name and any aliases or nicknames ever used, including different spellings you have used of those names.
• Information on how to secure police certificates from other countries is available on the Department of State's website at: http://travel.state.gov/visa/reciprocity/index.htm.

• Any applicant who has been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime must present an explanatory letter from the NBI listing each record on file and any relevant court records associated with convictions, dismissals or findings of innocence for serious crimes. This letter is required if an applicant's NBI Certificate has any of the following notations: "NO CRIMINAL RECORD", "NO PENDING CRIMINAL CASE", or "WITH DEROGATORY RECORD". For immigration purposes, an NBI clearance is considered valid only for one year from the date it is issued. You may contact the NBI at (632) 523-82-31 to 38 if you have any questions.

• Applicants must submit application documents to NVC to be documentarily qualified for the visa interview. Unless all requirements are submitted, the Embassy cannot process a visa application to completion. Be mindful of the expiration dates of the required documents, and bring updated ones to the interview if necessary.

• Medical clearance: All visa applicants, regardless of age, need to complete a medical examination at the St. Luke's Medical Center Extension Clinic (SLMCEC) before the visa interview.  SLMCEC is located at 1177 J. Bocobo St., Ermita, Manila.  SLMCEC can be reached by telephone at 521-0020 and 521-8647.  Operating hours are from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  The cost of the medical examination is U.S. $182.65 for adults (15 years and older) and U.S. $154.65 for children under 15 years of age.  Medical clearances are generally valid for 6 months.  Some applicants must have additional tests done and undergo long term medical treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and other diseases detected during the medical examination.  Many people miss their visa interview appointment for these reasons. For more information on the medical examination, please click here.
  
   
• Applicants whose visa eligibility is dependent upon their marital status (i.e. K-1, K-3, CR-1, IR-1, F-1 and F2-B categories) will normally need to have their documents verified through the National Statistics Office (NSO) before the U.S. Embassy in Manila can issue the visa.  Those with a delayed birth or death certificate or only local civil registrar copies of such documents may need to have their documents verified.
  
  In order to avoid unnecessary delay in the visa issuance process, the U.S. Embassy in Manila strongly encourages applicants in the categories mentioned above to pay the document verification fee prior to their immigrant visa interview.  Payment can be made through any Metrobank location.  The cost of the document verification is PhP 650 per applicant.  For specific instructions on how to pay the document verification fee, please click here.  If you are unable to pay for the document verification before your immigrant visa interview, you may be asked to pay the fee on the day of your interview.  Please note that if you pay on the day of your interview, there will be a delay of one to two weeks in the processing of your application.