Washington Amid growing enterprises of COVID-19 swell, the US on Thursday ( original time) is temporarily dropping an in-person interview demand for some work-visa orders-H-1B, L-1 and O-1 The State Department is temporarily dropping an in-person interview demand for some work-visa orders in 2022 to ease visa admeasurements, as the COVID-19 epidemic stretches into the third time, the department blazoned.
Aspirants for H-1B, L-1 and O-1 visas applying from abroad will not be needed to do an in-person interview at a US consulate, generally the final step before a visa is issued. Those orders represent the most common visa types companies use to attract high-professed gift from abroad.
The consular officers are now temporarily authorised, through December 31, 2022, to waive in-person interviews for certain individual solicitation- groundednon-immigrant work visas and their qualifying derivations in the following orders Persons in Specialty Occupations (H-1B visas), Trainee or Special Education Callers (H-3 visas), Intracompany Transferees (L visas), Individualities with Extraordinary Capability or Achievement (O visas), Athletes, Artists, and Impersonators (P visas), and Actors in International Cultural Exchange Programs (Q visas), added US State Department release.
Also, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has extended consular officers’ current capability to waive the in-person interview, through December 31, 2022, for the following other orders ofnon-immigrant visas Temporary Agricultural andNon-agricultural Workers (H-2 visas), Scholars (F and M visas), and Student Exchange Callers ( Academic J visas).
We honor the numerous benefactions of transnational callers to our communities and premises. Incipiently, the authorisation to waive the in-person interview for aspirants renewing a visa in the same visa class within 48 months of the previous visa’s expiration has been extended indefinitely, added the release The COVID-19 epidemic redounded in profound reductions in the Department’s visa processing capacity. As global trip rebounds, the US is taking these temporary way to farther commitment to safely and efficiently reduce visa stay times while maintaining public security. The determination was made with the concurrence of Department of Homeland Security mates.
Still, delegacies and consulates may still bear an in-person interview on a case-by-case base and dependent upon original conditions We encourage aspirants to check delegacy and consulate websites for more detailed information about this development, as well as current operating status and services,” added the release.
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