Expect a shorter ready interval in making an appointment for United States visa utility because the US Embassy within the Philippines expects to course of 325,000 US visas this yr.
According to JP Soriano’s report on “24 Oras,” as a result of pandemic, Filipinos needed to wait as much as two years to get a visa appointment, however the embassy targets to shorten the ready interval by 4 to 5 months.
“It is now about four to five months. We are hoping have it within two to three months by the end of the year,” US Embassy within the Philippines Consul General Mark McGovern mentioned.
He mentioned that the appliance for a fiancé visa since final yr was additionally record-breaking.
“We’re issuing record numbers of these, I believe last year was almost 4,900 fiancé visas that we have issued and close to 22 thousand of the immigrant visas that we have issued last year,” he mentioned.
However, the method for the petition for a partner, little one, or guardian who’s a US citizen is sort of longer.
“The backlog we have now is some on the longer term form in the unification visas. Expect probably within the next six to nine months,” McGovern mentioned.
He added that if an applicant is barely making use of for a vacationer visa for a trip that does not exceed six months, one doesn’t want too many paperwork like quite a few financial institution accounts or letters of endorsements from a politician.
The Embassy official mentioned it will be important for the applicant to have the ability to show that he would return to the Philippines after the holiday.
“Number one, always tell the truth. Number two, don’t use a lot of these maybe agencies that are being scammers don’t believe that there is a checklist cause none of those stuff exist. Number three, rely on the official information that we have available in all of our websites,” McGovern mentioned.
He clarified that it’s not true that ladies candidates are almost definitely to be denied.
Th Embassy additionally introduced that starting June 17, US visa utility will price P1,000 larger than its present fee. —Sherylin Untalan/LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
