U.S. embassies and consulates around the world will soon resume visa services, the State Department said Monday, although it is not providing details on where or when.
issued an unprecedented authorized departure in March for all U.S. missions, allowing diplomats and their families to return to the U.S., many posts are still facing staffing shortages and figuring out how to restart services with social distancing practices in often crowded waiting rooms.Since March 20, routine visa services have been suspended at all U.S. missions, allowing only for life-and-death emergency appointments.
President Donald Trump has also limited who can receive a visa through a series of executive orders, suspending H-1B visas, H-2B visas, L visas, and certain J visas through Dec. 31. H-1B visas are for highly skilled employees in fields like engineering or information technology, while H-2B visas are for seasonal workers like manufacturing or food processing. The J visa ban affects au pairs, camp counselors and teachers, and L visas are those transferred by their company to the U.S.
A young woman with a mouth guard shows her visa at the border crossing between Tijuana and the US, March 17, 2020. A young woman with a mouth guard shows her visa at the border crossing between Tijuana and the US, March 17, 2020.Even when visa services resume, travel from over two dozen countries to the U.S. is still barred under Trump's presidential proclamations -- for any foreigner who has traveled in the prior two weeks through China, Iran, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Brazil and Europe's Schengen Area, a 26-country bloc that includes France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
While the State Department says it is resuming services, one U.S. consulate is actually moving to close its doors temporarily. The U.S. consulate in Cusco, Peru, where there are still American citizens being evacuated four months after the government suddenly shut its borders and left thousands stranded, is closing next Monday until at least mid-November. The consulate said Monday that U.S. citizens in the area should seek assistance at the U.S. embassy in Lima, which is 356 miles away -- an 1.
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