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Fact Sheet: Presidential Proclamation to Suspend and Limit Entry and Joint DHS-DOJ Interim Final Rule to Restrict Asylum During High Encounters at the Southern Border

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration took decisive new action to strengthen border security, announcing a series of measures that restrict asylum eligibility, and significantly increase the consequences for those who enter without authorization across the southern border. These extraordinary steps, which will be in effect during times when high levels of encounters exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences, will make noncitizens who enter across the southern border ineligible for asylum with certain exceptions, raise the standard that is used to screen for certain protection claims, and speed up our ability to quickly remove those who do not qualify for protection.

These actions follow a series of steps that the Administration has taken over the past three years as it prepared for the end of the Title 42 public health Order, and since it was lifted last year, including surging personnel, infrastructure, and technology to the border, issuing the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways Rule, and referring record numbers of noncitizens into expedited removal. Over the past year, we have removed or returned more than three quarters of a million people, more than in any fiscal year since 2010. Despite these efforts, our outdated and broken immigration and asylum system, coupled with a lack of sufficient funding, make it impossible to quickly impose consequences on all noncitizens who cross irregularly and without a legal basis to remain in the United States.

The Administration has repeatedly called on Congress to provide the resources and legal authorities needed to secure our border. The measures announced today will better enable the Department to quickly remove individuals without a legal basis to remain in the United States, strengthening enforcement and change the calculus for those considering crossing our border irregularly. However, they are no substitute for Congressional action. We continue to call on Congress to provide the new tools and resources we have asked for to support the men and women on the frontlines.

President Biden issued a Presidential Proclamation to temporarily suspend the entry of noncitizens across the southern border. The Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General also jointly issued an interim final rule that, consistent with the Proclamation, generally restricts asylum eligibility for those who irregularly enter across the southern border – including the Southwest land and the southern coastal borders. The rule also limits fear screenings to those who manifest a fear or express a desire to file for protection and heightens the screening standard for statutory withholding and claims under the Convention Against Torture. Taken together, these measures will significantly increase the speed and scope of consequences for those who cross our borders irregularly or who attempt to present themselves at Ports of Entry without authorization, allowing the Departments to more quickly remove individuals who do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States. The restriction on asylum eligibility will be discontinued when encounters fall below certain levels but will come back into effect if encounters rise again.

The rule makes three key changes to current processing under Title 8 immigration authorities during periods of high border encounters:

• First, noncitizens who cross the southern border unlawfully or without authorization will generally be ineligible for asylum, absent exceptionally compelling circumstances and unless they are excepted by the Proclamation.
• Second, noncitizens who cross the southern border and are processed for expedited removal while the limitation is in effect will only be referred for a credible fear screening with an Asylum Officer if they manifest or express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, a fear of persecution or torture, or an intention to apply for asylum.  
• Third, the U.S. will continue to adhere to its international obligations and commitments by screening individuals who manifest a fear as noted above and do not qualify for an exception to the Rule for withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture protections at a reasonable probability of persecution or torture standard – a new, substantially higher standard than is currently applied under the Circumvention of Lawful Pathways rule.  

Like the Proclamation, the rule provides for an end to these enhanced measures following a sustained reduction in southern border encounters. Specifically, these measures are in effect until 14 calendar days after there has been a 7-consecutive-calendar-day average of less than 1,500 encounters between the ports of entry. The measures would again go into effect, or continue, as appropriate, when there has been a 7-consecutive-calendar-day average of 2,500 encounters or more.

During periods of high encounters, the Proclamation will apply across the southern border. Lawful permanent residents, unaccompanied children, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and other noncitizens with a valid visa or other lawful permission to enter the United States are excepted from the Proclamation.

In addition, the suspension and limitation on entry and rule will not apply to noncitizens who use a Secretary-approved process—such as the CBP One mobile app—to enter the United States at a port of entry in a safe and orderly manner or pursue another lawful pathway.

Noncitizens who cross the southern border and who are not excepted from the Proclamation will be ineligible for asylum unless exceptionally compelling circumstances exist, including if the noncitizen demonstrates that they or a member of their family with whom they are traveling:

• faced an acute medical emergency;
• faced an imminent and extreme threat to life or safety, such as an imminent threat of rape, kidnapping, torture, or murder; or
• satisfied the definition of “victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons” currently provided in 8 CFR 214.11.

Consequences

Noncitizens who are subject to the rule’s limitation on asylum eligibility and who manifest or express a fear of return to their country or country of removal, express a fear of persecution or torture or an intention to apply for asylum, but do not establish a reasonable probability of persecution or torture in the country of removal will be promptly removed.

Those ordered removed will be subject to at least a five-year bar to reentry and potential criminal prosecution.

The Proclamation and rule will significantly enhance the security of our border by increasing the Departments’ ability to impose swift consequences for individuals who cross the southern border irregularly and do not establish a legal basis to remain in the United States.  Together, the Proclamation and rule make critical changes to how the Departments operate during times when encounters are at historically high levels—levels that, in the absence of these changes, undermine the government’s ability to process individuals through the expedited removal process. These changes will enable the Departments to quickly return those without a lawful basis to stay in the United States and thereby free up the asylum system for those with legitimate claims.

These extraordinary measures are a stop gap. Even with these measures in place, the Departments continue to lack the authorities and resources needed to adequately support the men and women on the frontlines. The Administration again calls on Congress to take up and pass the bipartisan reforms proposed in the Senate, which provide the new authorities, personnel, and resources that are needed to address the historic global migration that is impacting countries throughout the world, including our own. Until Congress does its part, we will continue to take any actions needed under current law and within existing resources to secure the border.

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FACT SHEET: President   Biden Announces New Actions to Secure the   Border

New actions will bar migrants who cross our Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum Biden taking action as Congressional Republicans put partisan politics ahead of national security, twice voting against toughest reforms in decades

Since his first day in office, President Biden has called on Congress to secure our border and address our broken immigration system. Over the past three years, while Congress has failed to act, the President has acted to secure our border. His Administration has deployed the most agents and officers ever to address the situation at the Southern border, seized record levels of illicit fentanyl at our ports of entry, and brought together world leaders on a framework to deal with changing migration patterns that are impacting the entire Western Hemisphere.  Earlier this year, the President and his team reached a historic bipartisan agreement with Senate Democrats and Republicans to deliver the most consequential reforms of America’s immigration laws in decades. This agreement would have added critical border and immigration personnel, invested in technology to catch illegal fentanyl, delivered sweeping reforms to the asylum system, and provided emergency authority for the President to shut down the border when the system is overwhelmed. But Republicans in Congress chose to put partisan politics ahead of our national security, twice voting against the toughest and fairest set of reforms in decades. President Biden believes we must secure our border. That is why today, he announced executive actions to bar migrants who cross our Southern border unlawfully from receiving asylum. These actions will be in effect when high levels of encounters at the Southern Border exceed our ability to deliver timely consequences, as is the case today. They will make it easier for immigration officers to remove those without a lawful basis to remain and reduce the burden on our Border Patrol agents. But we must be clear: this cannot achieve the same results as Congressional action, and it does not provide the critical personnel and funding needed to further secure our Southern border. Congress still must act. The Biden-Harris Administration’s executive actions will:   Bar Migrants Who Cross the Southern Border Unlawfully From Receiving Asylum

• President Biden issued a proclamation under Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a) suspending entry of noncitizens who cross the Southern border into the United States unlawfully. This proclamation is accompanied by an interim final rule from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security that restricts asylum for those noncitizens.
• These actions will be in effect when the Southern border is overwhelmed, and they will make it easier for immigration officers to quickly remove individuals who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.
• These actions are not permanent. They will be discontinued when the number of migrants who cross the border between ports of entry is low enough for America’s system to safely and effectively manage border operations. These actions also include similar humanitarian exceptions to those included in the bipartisan border agreement announced in the Senate, including those for unaccompanied children and victims of trafficking.

Recent Actions to secure our border and address our broken immigration system: Strengthening the Asylum Screening Process

• The Department of Homeland Security published a proposed rule to ensure that migrants who pose a public safety or national security risk are removed as quickly in the process as possible rather than remaining in prolonged, costly detention prior to removal. This proposed rule will enhance security and deliver more timely consequences for those who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States.

Announced new actions to more quickly resolve immigration cases

• The Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security launched a Recent Arrivals docket to more quickly resolve a portion of immigration cases for migrants who attempt to cross between ports of entry at the Southern border in violation of our immigration laws.
• Through this process, the Department of Justice will be able to hear these cases more quickly and the Department of Homeland Security will be able to more quickly remove individuals who do not have a legal basis to remain in the United States and grant protection to those with valid claims.
• The bipartisan border agreement would have created and supported an even more efficient framework for issuing final decisions to all asylum seekers. This new process to reform our overwhelmed immigration system can only be created and funded by Congress.

Revoked visas of CEOs and government officials who profit from migrants coming to the U.S. unlawfully

• The Department of State imposed visa restrictions on executives of several Colombian transportation companies who profit from smuggling migrants by sea. This action cracks down on companies that help facilitate unlawful entry into the United States, and sends a clear message that no one should profit from the exploitation of vulnerable migrants.
• The State Department also imposed visa restrictions on over 250 members of the Nicaraguan government, non-governmental actors, and their immediate family members for their roles in supporting the Ortega-Murillo regime, which is selling transit visas to migrants from within and beyond the Western Hemisphere who ultimately make their way to the Southern border.
• Previously, the State Department revoked visas of executives of charter airlines for similar actions.

Expanded Efforts to Dismantle Human Smuggling and Support Immigration Prosecutions

• The Departments of State and Justice launched an “Anti-Smuggling Rewards” initiative designed to dismantle the leadership of human smuggling organizations that bring migrants through Central America and across the Southern U.S. border. The initiative will offer financial rewards for information leading to the identification, location, arrest, or conviction of those most responsible for significant human smuggling activities in the region.
• The Department of Justice will seek new and increased penalties against human smugglers to properly account for the severity of their criminal conduct and the human misery that it causes.
• The Department of Justice is also partnering with the Department of Homeland Security to direct additional prosecutors and support staff to increase immigration-related prosecutions in crucial border U.S. Attorney’s Offices. Efforts include deploying additional DHS Special Assistant United States Attorneys to different U.S. Attorneys’ offices, assigning support staff to critical U.S. Attorneys’ offices, including DOJ Attorneys to serve details in U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in several border districts, and partnering with federal agencies to identify additional resources to target these crimes.

Enhancing Immigration Enforcement

• The Department of Homeland Security has surged agents to the Southern border and is referring a record number of people into expedited removal.
• The Department of Homeland Security is operating more repatriation flights per week than ever before. Over the past year, DHS has removed or returned more than 750,000 people, more than in every fiscal year since 2010.
• Working closely with partners throughout the region, the Biden-Harris Administration is identifying and collaborating on enforcement efforts designed to stop irregular migration before migrants reach our Southern border, expand investment and integration opportunities in the region to support those who may otherwise seek to migrate, and increase lawful pathways for migrants as an alternative to irregular migration.

Seizing Fentanyl at our Border

• Border officials have seized more fentanyl at ports of entry in the last two years than the past five years combined, and the President has added 40 drug detection machines across points of entry to disrupt the fentanyl smuggling into the Homeland. The bipartisan border agreement would fund the installation of 100 additional cutting-edge inspection machines to help detect fentanyl at our Southern border ports of entry.
• In close partnership with the Government of Mexico, the Department of Justice has extradited Nestor Isidro Perez Salaz, known as “El Nini,” from Mexico to the United States to face prosecution for his role in illicit fentanyl trafficking and human rights abuses. This is one of many examples of joint efforts with Mexico to tackle the fentanyl and synthetic drug epidemic that is killing so many people in our countries and globally, and to hold the drug trafficking organizations to account.

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Reciprocity Schedule

Select a visa category below to find the visa issuance fee, number of entries, and validity period for visas issued to applicants from this country*/area of authority.

Explanation of Terms

Visa Classification: The type of nonimmigrant visa you are applying for.

Fee: The reciprocity fee, also known as the visa issuance fee, you must pay. This fee is in addition to the nonimmigrant visa application fee (MRV fee).

Number of Entries: The number of times you may seek entry into the United States with that visa. "M" means multiple times. If there is a number, such as "One", you may apply for entry one time with that visa.

Validity Period: This generally means the visa is valid, or can be used, from the date it is issued until the date it expires, for travel with that visa. If your Validity Period is 60 months, your visa will be valid for 60 months from the date it is issued.

Visa Classifications

Country specific footnotes.

Although care has been taken to ensure the accuracy, completeness and reliability of the information provided, please contact the U.S. Embassy or Consulate where you plan to apply if you believe this information is in error or if you have further questions.

Visa Category Footnotes

The validity of A-3, G-5, and NATO 7 visas may not exceed the validity of the visa issued to the person who is employing the applicant. The "employer" would have one of the following visa classifications:

• G-1 through G-4
• NATO 1 through NATO 6

An E-1 and E-2 visa may be issued only to a principal alien who is a national of a country having a treaty, or its equivalent, with the United States. E-1 and E-2 visas may not be issued to a principal alien if he/she is a stateless resident or national of a country without a treaty.  *When the spouse and children of an E-1 or E-2 principal alien are accorded derivative E-1 or E-2 status and are themselves a national of a country that does not have a treaty with the United States – the reciprocity schedule, including any reciprocity fees, of the principal alien’s country of nationality should be used.  **Spouse and children of an E-1 or E-2 visa principal applicant, where the spouse and children are also nationals of a country that has a treaty with the United States – the reciprocity schedule, including any reciprocity fees, of the spouse and children’s country of nationality should be used.  

*Example 1: John Doe is a national of Country A that has an E-1/E-2 treaty with the U.S. however his wife and child are nationals of Country B which has no treaty with the U.S. The wife and child would, therefore, be entitled to derivative status and receive the same reciprocity as John Doe, the principal visa holder. **Example 2:  Mike Doe is a national of Country Y that has an E-1/E-2 treaty with the U.S. however his wife and child are nationals of Country Z that also has a treaty with the U.S. The wife and child would, therefore, be entitled to derivative status and receive the reciprocity issued to nationals of Country Z.

The validity of H-1 through H-3, O-1 and O-2, P-1 through P-3, and Q visas may not exceed the period of validity of the approved petition or the number of months shown, whichever is less.

Under 8 CFR §214.2, H-2A and H-2B petitions may generally only be approved for nationals of countries that the Secretary of Homeland Security has designated as participating countries. The current list of eligible countries is available on USCIS's website for both H-2A and H-2B visas. Nationals of countries not on this list may be the beneficiary of an approved H-2A or H2-B petition in limited circumstances at the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security if specifically named on the petition.  

Derivative H-4, L-2, O-3, and P-4 visas, issued to accompanying or following-to-join spouses and children, may not exceed the validity of the visa issued to the principal alien.

There is no reciprocity fee for the issuance of a J visa if the alien is a United States Government grantee or a participant in an exchange program sponsored by the United States Government.

Also, there is no reciprocity fee for visa issuance to an accompanying or following-to-join spouse or child (J-2) of an exchange visitor grantee or participant.

In addition, an applicant is eligible for an exemption from the MRV fee if he or she is participating in a State Department, USAID, or other federally funded educational and cultural exchange program (program serial numbers G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-7).

However, all other applicants with U.S. Government sponsorships, including other J-visa applicants, are subject to the MRV processing fee.

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian and Mexican nationals coming to engage in certain types of professional employment in the United States may be admitted in a special nonimmigrant category known as the "trade NAFTA" or "TN" category. Their dependents (spouse and children) accompanying or following to join them may be admitted in the "trade dependent" or "TD" category whether or not they possess Canadian or Mexican nationality. Except as noted below, the number of entries, fees and validity for non-Canadian or non-Mexican family members of a TN status holder seeking TD visas should be based on the reciprocity schedule of the TN principal alien.

Canadian Nationals

Since Canadian nationals generally are exempt from visa requirement, a Canadian "TN' or "TD" alien does not require a visa to enter the United States. However, the non-Canadian national dependent of a Canadian "TN", unless otherwise exempt from the visa requirement, must obtain a "TD" visa before attempting to enter the United States. The standard reciprocity fee and validity period for all non-Canadian "TD"s is no fee, issued for multiple entries for a period of 36 months, or for the duration of the principal alien's visa and/or authorized period of stay, whichever is less. See 'NOTE' under Canadian reciprocity schedule regarding applicants of Iranian, Iraqi or Libyan nationality.

Mexican Nationals

Mexican nationals are not visa-exempt. Therefore, all Mexican "TN"s and both Mexican and non-Mexican national "TD"s accompanying or following to join them who are not otherwise exempt from the visa requirement (e.g., the Canadian spouse of a Mexican national "TN") must obtain nonimmigrant visas.

Applicants of Iranian, Iraqi, Libyan, Somalian, Sudanese, Syrian or Yemeni nationality, who have a permanent resident or refugee status in Canada/Mexico, may not be accorded Canadian/Mexican reciprocity, even when applying in Canada/Mexico. The reciprocity fee and period for "TD" applicants from Libya is $10.00 for one entry over a period of 3 months. The Iranian and Iraqi "TD" is no fee with one entry over a period of 3 months.

Q-2 (principal) and Q-3 (dependent) visa categories are in existence as a result of the 'Irish Peace Process Cultural and Training Program Act of 1998'. However, because the Department anticipates that virtually all applicants for this special program will be either Irish or U.K. nationals, the Q-2 and Q-3 categories have been placed only in the reciprocity schedules for those two countries. Q-2 and Q-3 visas are available only at the Embassy in Dublin and the Consulate General in Belfast.

No S visa may be issued without first obtaining the Department's authorization.

V-2 and V-3 status is limited to persons who have not yet attained their 21st birthday. Accordingly, the period of validity of a V-2 or V-3 visa must be limited to expire on or before the applicant's twenty-first birthday.

Posts may not issue a T-1 visa. A T-1 applicant must be physically present in the United States, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands or a U.S. port of entry, where he/she will apply for an adjustment of status to that of a T-1. The following dependents of a T-1 visa holder, however, may be issued a T visa at a U.S. consular office abroad:

• T-2 (spouse)
• T-3 (child)
• T-4 (parent)

The validity of NATO-5 visas may not exceed the period of validity of the employment contract or 12 months, whichever is less.

The validity of CW-1 and CW-2 visas shall not exceed the maximum initial period of admission allowed by DHS (12 months) or the duration of the transition period ending December 31, 2014, whichever is shortest.

The validity of E-2C visas shall not exceed the maximum initial period of admission allowed by DHS (24 months) or the duration of the transition period ending December 31, 2014, whichever is shortest.

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Birth, Death, Burial Certificates

Birth certificates.

Fees: The first certificate of birth is free, but subsequent copies require payment of a small fee.

Document Name: Izpisek iz matičnega registra o rojstvu

Issuing Authority: Administrative Unit (Upravna Enota) office in the country

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal/violet or blue color/coat-of-arms in the middle and name of issuing authority in the inner circle

Issuing Authority Personnel Title : The Civil Registrar (Matičar)

Registration Criteria: Births in Slovenia are entered in the register. Births abroad to at least one Slovene citizen parent-child acquires Slovene citizenship and birth is entered in the register in Slovenia.

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants and their authorized representatives may apply for all certificates in person or by mail, or online , if no fee is required. Individuals may also request the international version of the certificate which can be issued according to the Vienna Convention dated 8 September 1976 or acc. to the Paris Convention dated 27 September 1956 (issued in Slovene, English and eight/six other languages).

Certified Copies Available: Certified copies are not available. Duplicates are issued.

Exceptions: None

Comments: Birth Certificate can be issued in Slovene and Italian or Hungarian language if the Italian or Hungarian minority lives in the area.

Death Certificates

Fees: The first certificate of death is free, but subsequent copies require payment of a small fee.

Document Name: Izpisek iz matičnega registra o smrti

Issuing Authority:  Administrative Unit (Upravna Enota) office in the country

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: Round seal/blue or violet color/ coat-of-arms in the middle and name of issuing authority in the inner circle

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: The Civil Registrar (Matičar)

Registration Criteria: Death in Slovenia and abroad is entered in the register in Slovenia.

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants and their authorized representatives may apply for all certificates in person or by mail, or online , if no fee is required. Individuals may also request the international version of the certificate which can be issued according to the Vienna Convention dated 8 September 1976 or according to the Paris Convention dated 27 September 1956  (issued in Slovene, English and eight/six other languages.)

Certified Copies Available:   Certified copies are not available. Duplicates are issued.

Alternate Documents: There are no alternate documents

Comments: Death Certificate can be issued in Slovene and Italian or Hungarian language if the Italian or Hungarian minority lives in the area.

Marriage, Divorce Certificates

Marriage certificates.

Fees: The first certificate of marriage is free, but subsequent copies require payment of a small fee.

Document Name: Izpisek iz maticnega registra o sklenjeni zakonski zvezi

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal/blue or violet color/coat-of-arms in the middle and name of issuing authority in the middle

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: The Civil Registrar (Maticar)

Registration Criteria: Marriage in Slovenia and abroad is entered in the register in Slovenia

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants and their authorized representatives may apply for all certificates in person or by mail, or online , if no fee is required. Individuals may also request the international version of the certificate which can be issued according to the Vienna Convention dated 8 September 1976 or according to the Paris Convention dated 27 September 1956is (issued in Slovene, English and eight/six other languages.)

Certified Copies Available: Certified copies are not available; duplicates are issued

Comments: Same sex partners can conclude a partner union not conjugal union. They have the same rights and obligations with exception of adoption and artificial insemination. Marriage Certificate can be issued in Slovene and Italian or Hungarian language if the Italian or Hungarian minority lives in the area.

Divorce Certificates

Fees :  EUROS 0.20 per page

Document Name: Divorce Decree (Sodba o razvezi zakonske zveze)

Issuing Authority: Copies of divorce judgments are available from the Family Law Division of the District Court (Družinski oddelek okrožnega sodišca) which decided the case. Marriage is terminated only with a divorce decree issued by the court.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal with the coat-of-arms in the middle and the issuing authority within the inner circle/blue color

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: Recording clerk (vpisničar)

Registration Criteria: There is no registration criteria

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants must apply in person

Certified Copies Available: Certified copies are available.

Comments: If divorce is not mutual one of the married partners must file a lawsuit with the court for divorce.

Adoption Certificates

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Identity Card

Fees: EURO 12.46 for 3 year-validity, EURO 18.86 for 10 year-validity and permanent card, EURO 12.06 for 1 year-validity, EURO 14.26 for 5 year-validity

Document Name: National ID Card (Osebna izkaznica)

Issuing Authority: Administrative Unit (Upravna enota)

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: The identity card contains the applicant's photograph, date and place of birth, permanent address, personal identification number, registry number, and signature.

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: There is no issuing authority personnel title

Registration Criteria: Citizenship

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants must apply in person for an identity card at any Administrative Unit (Upravna Enota) office in the country. In emergency cases, such as an urgent business trip, personal medical treatment, or the death or illness of a close relative, one can also apply for an identity card at the Ministry of Interior.

Certified Copies Available:  Certified copies are not available

Alternate Documents:  There are no alternate documents

Exceptions: Slovene Passport

Comments: While Slovenes are not required by law to carry the identity card, the cards are proof of citizenship and permanent residence, so most Slovenes have one. The National Identity Card enables travel to every EU country.

Police, Court, Prison Records

Police certificates.

Fees: There are no fees

Document Name: Certificate of No Criminal Record (Potrdilo o nekaznovanosti)

Issuing Authority: Criminal Records Office (Kazenska evidenca) within the Ministry of Justice (Ministrstvo za Pravosodje) Zupančičeva 3, 1000 Ljubljana.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal with the coat-of-arms in the middle and the name of issuing authority within the inner circle/blue color

Issuing Authority Personnel Title:   Analyst (Analitik)

Procedure for Obtaining: The application can be mailed, emailed or submitted in person with the security guard at the Justice Ministry

Certified Copies Available: Certified copies are not available. A new certificate would be issued.

Alternate Documents: There are no alternate documents.

Exceptions  None

Comments: Immigrant visa applicants should request this document along with certified English translations.

Note: Both the Certificate of No Criminal Record (Potrdilo o nekaznovanosti) and Certificate of No Current Penal Proceedings (Potrdilo da oseba ni v kazenskem postopku, see Court Records) are required for immigrant visa purposes.

Court Records

Document Name: Certificate of No Current Penal Proceedings (Potrdilo da oseba ni v kazenskem postopku)

Issuing Authority: Issued by the County Court/District Court (Okrajno sodišce/Okrožno sodišče) with jurisdiction over their place of residence.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal wit coat-of-arms in the middle and name of issuing authority within the inner circle

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: District Court Judge/Female District Court Judge (Okrožni sodnik/Okrožna sodnica), County Court Judge/Female County Court Judge (Okrajni sodnik/Okrajna sodnica)

Registration Criteria:  There is no registration criteria

Procedure for Obtaining: Certificate of No Current Penal Proceedings can be obtained in the Criminal Office of each county or district court.

Exceptions:  None

Note: Both the Certificate of No Criminal Record (Potrdilo o nekaznovanosti, see Police Certificates) and Certificate of No Current Penal Proceedings (Potrdilo da oseba ni v kazenskem postopku) are required for immigrant visa purposes.

Prison Records

Document Name: Certificate  (Potrdilo)

Issuing Authority:   Criminal Records Office (Kazenska evidence) within  the Ministry of Justice (Ministrstvo za pravosodje), Zupančičeva 3, 1000 Ljubljana

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal with the coat-of-arms in the middle and the name of issuing authority within the inner circle-blue color

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: Analyst/Clerk/ Senior Counsellor (analitik/ referent/ višji svetovalec)

Procedure for Obtaining: A statement of the time spent in a criminal institution and the relevant charges can be obtained from the Criminal Records Office (Kazenska evidenca) within the Ministry of Justice (Ministrstvo za Pravosodje).

Comments: Evidence of imprisonment can be erased, e.g. 1-3 years of imprisonment can be erased after 5 years. Imprisonment above 15 years cannot be erased.

Military Records

Document Name: Certificate of Military Service (Potrdilo o služenju vojaškega roka)

Issuing Authority: The branch office of the Department of Defense (Uprava za Obrambo) located in the applicant's municipality.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: round seal with coat-of-arms in the middle and name of issuing authority in the inner circle/blue color

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: Counsellor/Female Counsellor (Svetovalec/Svetovalka)

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants must apply in person.

Comments: Slovenia terminated the mandatory military service in 2003. The system has been replaced by a professional army.

Passports & Other Travel Documents

Types Available (Regular, Diplomatic, Official, etc.): Regular Passport/Diplomatic Passport/Official Passport (Potni list/Diplomatski potni list/Službeni potni list).

Fees: EURO 39.30 for 5-year validity passport, EURO 35.20 for 3-yar validit passport, EURO 46.10 for 10-year validity passport, EURO 3480 for 1-year validity passport. The same fees apply for diplomatic and official passports.

Document Name: Regular Passport/Diplomatic Passport/Official Passport (Potni list/Diplomatski potni list/Službeni potni list). Emergency Travel Document (ETD) can be issued for return only in case of loss/theft/destruction or other unavailability of an EU citizen’s passport. It can be obtained at another EU Country Consulate where there is no Slovene Embassy/Consulate in that country.

Issuing Government Authority: Administrative Unit (Upravna enota). If a citizen lives abroad and cannot come to Slovenia, a passport can be issued by the Slovene Consulate. Diplomatic and official passports are issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: Slovenia started to issue machine-readable passports with digital photos and dark red covers on March 1, 2001.

In August 2006, Slovenia began issuing an e-passport with a chip that contains the biographic data as well as the digital image of the bearer. The biometric passports bear a red cover, but are distinguishable from non-biometric passports by the ICAO-mandated e-passport symbol on the front.

Slovenia also issues dual-language passports in both Hungarian and Italian to its citizens who are members of those ethnic minorities. The format and security features of these documents are identical to the non-dual-language versions, except that all text, including that on the cover, is written in both Slovene and the other language.

Slovenia began to issue a new additionally protected e-passport on 12 December 2016. Old passports remain valid until expiration date.  One of the new security features is an additional photograph of the passport bearer on page 3.

Issuing Authority Personnel Title: There is no issuing authority Personnel Title

Procedure for Obtaining: Applicants have to apply in person. In emergency cases, such as urgent business trip, personal medical treatment, or the death or illness of a close relative, one can also apply for a passport at the Ministry of Interior.

Comments: 1-year passport is issued if a person has lost two or more passports in five years. 3-year validity passports are issued for children under age of 3. 5-year validity passports are issued to persons between the ages 3-18. Diplomatic and official passports are issued for duration of one’s assignment but for 5 years maximum.

Other Documents Available: National ID for travel in the EU .

Other Records

Statement of unmarried status.

Fees: Payment of a small fee required.

Document Name: Certificate of Being Single ( Potrdilo o samskem stanu)

Special Seal(s) / Color / Format: There is no special seal(s)/color/format

Issuing Authority Personnel Title : Registrar ( Matičar)

Procedure for Obtaining: The civil registrar of any Administrative Unit will issue a certificate (Samski List) stating that the applicant is free to marry and that there are no legal impediments to the marriage.

Certified Copies Available: Certified copies are not available

Comments: None

• Visa Issuing Posts

Post Title: U.S. Embassy Ljubljana, Slovenia

Prešernova 31, 1000 Ljubljana  

Phone Number:  +386 (1) 2005500

Email:  [email protected]

Comments / Additional Information:  

Visa Services

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