• MEDIA: U.S. Decision to Waive In-person Interview for H-1B Visas Welcom

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 2 14:27:39 2022
    Via Duck Duck Go,
    <URL:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=H-1B&t=h_&iar=news&ia=news#>
    see Reena Bhardwaj on whether Donald Trump's Save America PAC will
    endorse Mike Pompeo's presidential exploratory committee: <URL:https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/u-s-decision-to-waive-in-person-interview-for-h-1b-visas-welcome-move-says/article_47b2426c-6554-11ec-a527-4ba88b8bc2ff.html>
    | The consular officers are now temporarily authorized, through Dec.
    | 31, 2022, to waive in-person interviews for certain individual
    | petition-based non-immigrant work visas and their qualifying
    | derivatives in the following categories: Persons in Specialty
    | Occupations (H-1B visas); Trainee or Special Education Visitors (H-3
    | visas); Intracompany Transferees (L visas); Individuals with
    | Extraordinary Ability or Achievement (O visas); Athletes, Artists,
    | and Entertainers (P visas); and Participants in International
    | Cultural Exchange Programs (Q visas); according to a U.S. State
    | Department release.
    |
    | Additionally, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has extended
    | consular officers' current ability to waive the in-person interview,
    | through Dec. 31, 2022, for the following other categories of non-
    | immigrant visas: Temporary Agricultural and Non-agricultural Workers
    | (H-2 visas), Students (F and M visas), and Student Exchange Visitors
    | (Academic J visas).
    |
    | However, embassies and consulates may still require an in-person
    | interview on a case-by-case basis and dependent upon local
    | conditions.

    Does Marty Walsh concur with Eugene Scalia that Trump's extreme
    vetting of imported scab workers is good for legacy American proles?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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