I am in the painstaking process of getting my J-1 visa to go on an exchange to the US in January. Until last week, visa appointments were required in the Netherlands with an insane waiting time of 4 months, but on the 4th of November, I received the e-mail that I qualify for "adjudication without an in-person interview", which means I just have to send my passport to the the visa put in there.
Problem is, I was not paying attention and while entering my passport details, I made the stupid mistake of entering that both "Country that issued passport" and "Country of Birth" are "Netherlands Antilles" instead of "The Netherlands" (with the expectation that it will automatically put it on "Netherlands" without "The"). All other info, such as DoB, passport number, DS-160 number (which has all info correctly stated) and names are correct, just the countries.
How much of an issue is this? I've already wasted €144 now on my back-up application in Belgium and I don't want to spend another €144 on a wholly new application just to correct this...
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