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| US experimenting visa interviews |
| US experimenting visa interviews on Skype: Clinton
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 12-March-2011
5:20:28 AM |
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As part of efforts to streamline the process of issuing visas to business travellers, the US is taking a number of steps including through experiments like conducting visa interviews over Skype and eliminating paper applications.
"We have tried some experiments to look for ways to do interviews over Skype. It doesn't meet our security needs," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday in her remarks at the President's Export Council wherein leaders from the industry expressed their concern over delay and restrictions in issuing of visas.
"We train our consular officers to look at a visa applicant from a lot of different perspectives, and it's unfortunate that that's the world we find ourselves in. So, we're trying to do everything possible to keep our consular offices open longer, to try to provide more support," Clinton said.
"We are streamlining operations by eliminating paper applications, working to expedite visa appointments for business travellers," she said
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