USA provided visas to one million Chinese in 2012 alone

The US consulates in China in 2012 alone have provided visas to about one million Chinese so far while the number is still counting with about five months of the year still to go.

According to a press brief released by the US department of State, “Consular Officers at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and our four consulates general in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang have processed more than one million
visa applications to date in fiscal year 2012 while reducing the wait time for a visa interview appointment to approximately one week.”

Sharing the details, the briefing informed, “This extraordinary accomplishment represents visa processing growth of almost 43% over the same period last fiscal year, when we had processed just over 675,000 visa applications in
China.

To achieve this, we increased staff, improved workflow, implemented a new pilot program waiving the in-person interview requirement in certain instances, and undertook other changes to our procedures – without compromising border
security.”

Revealing its future visa procedures and how the US is going to make it less hectic for the countries like China, the press briefing stated, “We are implementing permanent solutions to keep us ahead of the growing visa demand for
years to come. During a June trip to China, the Department’s top consular official, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Janice Jacobs, cut the ribbon on a reopened annex to our Embassy in Beijing, greatly increasing visa interview capacity.

China is not the only place where the State Department has achieved great success in meeting dramatic increases in visa demand. In Brazil, we have processed almost 44% more visa applications so far in FY 2012 than we did during
the same period last year. In Mexico, we have processed 36% more visa applications. China and Mexico are the only two U.S. Missions that process more than one million visa applications each year, although Brazil is on track to become the third.”

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Posted by Fayyaz Yaseen on Jul 13 2012. Filed under USA, World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry