'Here is my declarations: Visual Basic Syntax

'Here is my declarations:

Declare Function atxml_ReadCmds Lib "AtXmlApi_Dbg.dll" (ByVal resourceName As String, _
ByVal ReadBuffer As String, _
ByVal numberBytesToRead As String, _
ByRef numBytesRead As Integer) As Integer

Global resourceName As String
Global ReadBuffer As String * 255
Dim NBR As Integer 'Number of Bytes Read
Dim numberBytesToRead As Integer

'And here is my function call

ErrorStatus& = atxml_ReadCmds(resourceName, _
ReadBuffer, _
numberBytesToRead, _
NBR&)

'what is wrong?
'The compile error says:
'Type-declaration character does not match declared data type
'the highlight is on the NBR&

NBR& is not a valid integer.