Filing your E-2 visa at the U.S. Embassy Branch Office Tel Aviv

If the company already holds a valid registration, you do not send a package. You schedule directly and follow the confirmation letter.

This is the first thing to establish, because preparing a full registration package for an already-registered company is entirely avoidable work. You can check whether a registration is still valid by emailing the E-visa unit at TelAvivEVisas@state.gov.

Note the asymmetry: the enquiry is by email, the package is by post. The email address is for questions about registration status, not a submission route.

Post or courier the complete company registration package to the U.S. Embassy Branch Office Tel Aviv. Because the submission is physical, the failure modes are physical too: assembly, legibility and delivery all matter in a way they do not at an email post.

Build in courier time. At an email post a late package is a same-day fix; here it is not.

Company registrations are held by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. The interview is at the Branch Office in Tel Aviv.

For an applicant this mostly matters when something needs chasing, or when an employee of an already-registered company is working out what exists on file and where. The registration is a Jerusalem record; the appointment is a Tel Aviv one.

The post gives 7 to 10 business days after interview as normal processing, without guaranteeing it. That is an unusually specific figure — most posts publish nothing at all about the period after the interview — and it is worth treating as an indication rather than a commitment.

Administrative processing, where it applies, sits outside that range and is not uniform across applicants.

We score Tel Aviv a 1 for third-country nationals, the lower end of our scale. The score describes willingness to schedule an appointment, not eligibility for approval.

The physical submission adds a practical consideration for a non-resident: the package has to reach the Branch Office by post or courier before the process moves, which is a longer lead time than emailing from abroad.

There is no single total. The MRV fee is fixed, published and tied to your DS-160. Preparation costs vary with the case, and Tel Aviv adds two that email posts do not: printing the full registration package, and courier or postage to deliver it.

Check the current published MRV fee before you pay.

Three periods sit end to end here: delivery of the physical package, appointment availability, and the 7 to 10 business days the post gives as normal post-interview processing. Only the middle one is published by the Department of State.

Check the current published appointment wait rather than relying on a fixed estimate, and add realistic courier time at the front.

The E-2 is a nonimmigrant treaty investor visa open to nationals of countries holding a qualifying treaty of commerce with the United States, and Israel is one of those treaty countries. You must have invested, or be actively in the process of investing, a substantial amount of your own at-risk capital in a real and operating U.S. business that you will direct and develop.

The enterprise must be at least 50 percent owned by persons holding the treaty nationality, or controlled by a qualifying national. An Israeli applicant’s own eligibility does not survive a non-treaty partner holding the majority stake.

Because Tel Aviv registers companies rather than simply reviewing individual applications, the first filing from a business carries weight for every applicant after it — the registration is the asset being built.