Etats-Unis : U.S. says visa processing has quickened in China
The State Department has already increased visa processing in China, reduced wait times, and introduced a pilot program that waives interviews for some non-immigrant applicants, according to Gary Locke, the U.S. ambassador to China.
Speaking in Beijing last week, Locke said that to date this year visa processing is up 48% compared with the same period in 2011, and that wait times for interviews had already decreased in 2012, to less than six days last week at all posts in China.
"President Obama has set a worldwide goal to interview 80% of all visa applicants within three weeks of the request for an appointment. In China, we are already meeting this goal and intend to continue to do so," Locke said according to a transcript from the embassy.
In order to meet increasing demand in 2012 and beyond, Locke said the embassy is assigning 50 new consular officers to China and will reopen a consular facility in Beijing that will increase interviewing in the city by 50.