If you are searching for what to bring to a biometrics appointment for a dependent visa in Georgetown, start here: Guyana's own immigration portal does not describe a biometrics appointment for this process at all. Much of what circulates online about it is the American system, and following it will have you arriving with the wrong paperwork.
What is actually published
Immigration Support Services, Guyana's immigration e-services portal, publishes a service called "Visitor Visa Extension". It is an online submission: you "gather and be prepared to upload a scanned version" of a specified list of documents. There is no appointment-confirmation notice to print, no Application Support Center, and no biometrics step named anywhere on the page.
If an article tells you to bring a Form I-797C, Notice of Action, or to present a Green Card, it is describing United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Those are American documents and American offices. They have nothing to do with a Guyanese application, and their presence is a reliable signal that the page was not checked.
The documents the portal lists
Scans of each of the following, in the portal's own wording:
- "Letter from the applicant addressed to the Head of Immigration and Support Services" — a letter you write, not a form you fill in, which is the item most people are not expecting.
- "Evidence of finance to cover extended stay in Guyana"
- "Marriage certificate"
- "Spouse birth certificate if born in Guyana"
- "Children birth certificates if born in Guyana"
- "Passport photo of Applicant"
- "Copy of Applicant's entire passport including all stamps" — the entire passport, every page that carries a stamp, not just the photo page.
- "Sponsor's passport"
Note which of these are conditional. The spouse and children birth certificates are listed if born in Guyana; the sponsor's passport is required regardless, which tells you this process assumes a sponsor in-country.
The fees, and how they are paid
The portal states: "The application processing fee for the Extension of Stay Visitor Visa is $5,125 GYD", and that where the extension exceeds three months "the processing fee will be $28,700 GYD". Both figures were independently re-measured from that page on 21 October 2026 and matched.
Payment is the part that surprises people used to paying online: "All monies are payable in cash or the manager's cheque", made out to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. A manager's cheque has to be arranged at a bank, so this is worth sorting before you submit rather than after.
The step in the fee at three months is large — more than five times the standard fee — so if your intended stay is near that line, work out which side of it you are on before applying rather than extending twice.
What the portal does not say
- No processing time. The page gives none, so this article gives none. Ask when you submit, and plan on the answer rather than on an article.
- No biometrics. If biometrics are required in your case, that instruction will come from the department, not from a guide.
- No eligibility rules. The page lists documents and fees, not who qualifies. Whether an extension is the right route for your family, as opposed to a residence permit, is a question for the department.
After submitting, the portal provides a reference number. For problems with an application the page gives the telephone number (592) 223-5210.
Practical sequence
- Write the letter first. It is addressed to the Head of Immigration and Support Services and it is the only item you have to compose rather than copy.
- Scan the whole passport. Every page with a stamp, for the applicant.
- Get the sponsor's passport copy early if the sponsor is an employer contact rather than a family member.
- Decide the duration before you apply. The fee changes at three months.
- Arrange cash or a manager's cheque in advance, payable to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs.
Where to check
Everything quoted above is from Immigration Support Services' Visitor Visa Extension page, read on 23 October 2026. Fees and requirements change, and the department is the authority for your own case.
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