The increase in requests for the visa at the United States Embassy in Colombia has led the authorities to announce changes in the processes and times in non-immigrant cases.
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With appointments until 2024 in the application for work, student and exchange visas, the entity enacted the new measures to streamline the processes and grant the document in less time.
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In the coming months and all of our officers will be working hard every day at the embassy to process these kinds of visas.
“Right now there are many Colombians who are traveling to the United States to participate in exchange programs, students and people who are going to work on petition visas,” said the deputy chief of non-immigrant visas at the embassy.
In addition, he also commented that in recent weeks there were up to a thousand Colombians keeping their appointments at the embassy, a situation that forced a change in the American visa procedures.
In his announcement, the official stated that, first of all, “in the new process, when the person fills out their visa application in our system, the system will say if the person qualifies for the visa without an interview“.
In addition, he stressed that given the need of some travelers for their passportthis document will have to remain permanently in the Embassy during the process, and appointments will be granted for the delivery of this document that is required for the Visa process.
Finally, from the embassy it was asserted that “we never charge anything for appointments, at any time. These services have committed fraud and this has a very negative impact on the applicant and we also have to deny the visa then”, this in view of the growing number of alleged scams that were presented during the process by third parties.
Thus, as of Tuesday, April 12, a greater number of appointments were enabled for categories M, H, J, L, P and O, which will last from one month to five weeks for the start of the process. .
To view the full announcement on the visa update, Click here.
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