US Drops In-Person Interviews For H-1B, L-1 Visas For Now As Covid Surges
US Drops In-Person Interviews For H-1B, L-1 Visas For Now As Covid Surges
Washington: Amid developing worries of COVID-19 flood, the US on Thursday (nearby time) is briefly dropping an in-person talk with prerequisite for some work-visa classifications – H-1B, L-1 and O-1.
The State Department is briefly dropping an in-person talk with prerequisite for some work-visa classifications in 2022 to ease visa issuances, as the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into the third year, the division reported.
Candidates for H-1B, L-1 and O-1 visas applying from abroad will not be needed to do an in-person meet at a US department, regularly the last advance before a visa is given. Those classifications address the most widely recognized visa types organizations use to draw in high-gifted ability from abroad.
The consular officials are presently briefly approved, through December 31, 2022, to postpone face to face meets for specific individual request based non-settler work visas and their passing subsidiaries in the accompanying classifications: Persons in Specialty Occupations (H-1B visas), Trainee or Special Education Visitors (H-3 visas), Intracompany Transferees (L visas), Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement (O visas), Athletes, Artists, and Entertainers (P visas), and Participants in International Cultural Exchange Programs (Q visas), added US State Department discharge.
Furthermore, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has stretched out consular officials’ present capacity to forgo the in-person meet, through December 31, 2022, for the accompanying different classifications of non-settler visas: Temporary Agricultural and Non-rural Workers (H-2 visas), Students (F and M visas), and Student Exchange Visitors (Academic J visas).
We perceive the numerous commitments of worldwide guests to our networks and grounds. In conclusion, the authorisation to defer the in-person meet for candidates reestablishing a visa in a similar visa class inside four years of the earlier visa’s termination has been broadened endlessly, added the delivery.
