PRESS RELEASE

March 22, 2007

CALL CENTER TO BEGIN OPERATIONS

As announced by United States Consul General Landon Taylor on February 23, 2007, the U.S. Embassy’s call center to provide visa information and to schedule visa appointments will begin operations on Monday, March 26, 2007. The call center hours of operation are Monday-Friday 8:00 to 18:00, Kyiv local time. The Ukraine call center telephone number is 044-207-7071. If calling from the United States on behalf of relatives in Ukraine, the telephone number is 1-888-889-3780.

In order to acquaint Ukrainians with the call center feature, we have decided that beginning Monday, March 26 and continuing until April 9, the call center will provide visa information and schedule all non-immigrant visa appointments free of charge to the public.

On Tuesday, April 10, the call center will begin providing visa information and scheduling appointments for a fee of the Hryvnya equivalent of $12 for eight minutes. To pay for this service, you must purchase a personal identification number (PIN). You may purchase a PIN in three ways:

• You can purchase your PIN with a credit card by telephoning the call center.
• You can purchase your PIN from a designated local bank branch of ProCredit Bank*.
• Finally, those who are not served by a ProCredit Bank branch may telephone the call center to schedule their appointment and purchase their PIN at the ProCredit Bank branch in Kyiv at the same time they pay their MRV fee.

More information about the PIN payment options is available by telephoning the call center at 044-207-7071.

* ProCredit Bank will be selling the PINs at the following locations:

Kyiv
26/41 Pavlovskaya St
86 Bozhenko St
24 Krasnoarmeyskaya St

Kharkiv
37 Petrovskogo St

Lviv
5 Mitskevicha St

Donetsk
23 Pushkina boulevard

Odessa
33 Bunina St

Bila Tsekrva
15 50-year of Pobeda boulevard

Mariupol
77 Metallurgov Ave

Kramatorsk
38 Socialisticheskaya St

Makiyivka
49/17 Lenin St

Poltava
19/11 Kotlyarevskogo St

Sumy
6 Kirov St

Ivano-Frankivsk
11 Sechevych Streltsov St

Gorlivka
70 Pobedy Ave

Dnipropetrovsk
4A Karl Libknecht St

Zaporizhzhya
62 Lenin Ave
190 Lenin Ave

Slavyansk
80 Yunych Kommunarov St

Kryvyy Rig
2A Metallurgov Ave

Kremenchuk
31 Lenin St

Uzhgorod
67A Shvabskaya St

Simferopol
1 Lenin St

Sevastopol
27 Bolshaya Morskaya St

Syevyerodonetsk
39 Lenin St

Yalta
1/6 Moskovskaya St

Kolomyya
2 Stusa St

Dniprodzerzhynsk
49 Lenin Ave

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