US B1/B2 renewal without interview: do eligibility rules differ in different embassies?
My B1/B2 visa recently expired and I want to renew it. I know that there is an option to renew it without going for another interview, it should be sufficient to send a passport and supporting documents by post.
I checked webpages of several US embassies in different countries and it seems many of them have completely different requirements. E.g., some require that:
- The old visa was issued in the same embassy
- You are a citizen/resident of the country where the embassy is located
- The old visa was a 10-year-long visa (i.e. not 1-year), etc.
- Some embassies (e.g. in Georgia) do not have any information regarding that renewal option at all.
So I want to check if it is indeed the case, i.e. do embassies themselves define the eligibility conditions, or are there some baseline conditions that work everywhere?
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