{"id":147,"date":"2022-01-13T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/?p=147"},"modified":"2022-03-08T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T20:34:08","slug":"important-announcement-on-waivers-of-the-interview-requirement-for-certain-nonimmigrant-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/2022\/01\/13\/important-announcement-on-waivers-of-the-interview-requirement-for-certain-nonimmigrant-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"01\/13\/2022 Important Announcement on Waivers of the Interview Requirement for Certain Nonimmigrant Visas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, has authorized consular officers through the end of 2022 to waive the in-person interview requirement for certain temporary employment nonimmigrant visa applicants who have a petition approved by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. &nbsp;&nbsp;This new authorization applies to temporary workers applying for H-1, H-3, H-4, L, O, P, and Q visas who meet certain conditions . . . <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/News\/visas-news\/important-announcement-on-waivers-of-the-interview-requirement-for-certain-nonimmigrant-visas.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/travel.state.gov\/content\/travel\/en\/News\/visas-news\/important-announcement-on-waivers-of-the-interview-requirement-for-certain-nonimmigrant-visas.html\">click to continue to read full message<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, has authorized consular officers through the end of 2022 to waive the in-person interview requirement for certain temporary employment nonimmigrant visa applicants who have a petition approved by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/2022\/01\/13\/important-announcement-on-waivers-of-the-interview-requirement-for-certain-nonimmigrant-visas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/immigration-updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}