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US consulates around the world have now introduced a stricter rule that limits the number of applicants who can benefit from an interview waiver when renewing their visa.<\/p>\n
With immediate effect, visa applicants are only entitled to waive an interview if they either<\/p>\n
Previously, this rule applied to visas that had expired within the last two years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n All applicants who do not fall under one of these two exceptions must expect to appear for a personal interview at the consulate before their new visa is issued.<\/p>\n ” content_phone=”<\/p>\n \n US consulates around the world have now introduced a stricter rule that limits the number of applicants who can benefit from an interview waiver when renewing their visa.<\/p>\n With immediate effect, visa applicants are only entitled to waive an interview if they either<\/p>\n Previously, this rule applied to visas that had expired within the last two years<\/strong>.<\/p>\n All applicants who do not fall under one of these two exceptions must expect to appear for a personal interview at the consulate before their new visa is issued.<\/p>\n ” content_last_edited=”on|phone” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font_size=”30px” header_2_text_color=”#008AFC” header_2_font_size=”35px” header_2_line_height=”1.3em” hover_enabled=”0″ header_2_font_size_tablet=”30px” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-primary-color%22:%91%22link_text_color%22,%22link_text_color%22%93,%22gcid-heading-color%22:%91%22header_text_color%22,%22header_4_text_color%22,%22header_3_text_color%22,%22header_5_text_color%22,%22header_6_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22,%22header_text_color%22,%22header_4_text_color%22,%22header_3_text_color%22,%22header_5_text_color%22,%22header_6_text_color%22,%22quote_text_color%22%93,%22gcid-body-color%22:%91%22text_text_color%22,%22text_text_color%22%93,%22gcid-secondary-color%22:%91%22quote_border_color%22,%22quote_border_color%22%93}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n US Consulates worldwide have now implemented a stricter rule that limits the candidates that qualify for an interview waiver when renewing their visas.<\/p>\n Now, only visa applicants with either 1) a valid visa in the same category or 2) a visa that expired in the last 12 months in the same category are eligible to have their interview waived. Previously, the consulates waived the interview requirement for applicants whose visas expired within the previous two years.<\/p>\n All visa candidates who do not fall into one of these two exceptions should expect to be required to attend an in-person interview at the Consulate before their new visa is issued.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US Consulates Tighten Interview Waiver Rules \u2013 What You Need to Know Now: US Consulates worldwide have now implemented a stricter rule that limits the candidates that qualify for an interview waiver when renewing their visas. Now, only visa applicants with either 1) a valid visa in the same category or 2) a visa that expired in the last 12 months in the same category are eligible to have their interview waived. Previously, the consulates waived the interview requirement for applicants whose visas expired within the previous two years. All visa candidates who do not fall into one of these two exceptions should expect to be required to attend an in-person interview at the Consulate before their new visa is issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-post-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adomatimmigration.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}US consulates tighten interview waiver – what you need to look out for now<\/h2>\n
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US Consulates Tighten Interview Waiver Rules \u2013 What You Need to Know Now:<\/h2>\n