The alteration to a new acceptance service provider, appointed for August 26, 2024, is in band with a broader amend to acceptance casework actuality formed out at US embassies in abounding countries worldwide
The Consul General of the Embassy, Elliot Fertik, told journalists at a conference on Friday that admitting the change in the system, all existing non-immigrant acceptance account accessories would abide valid
He said while this change was not anon accompanying to accepted acceptance demand, the alteration could advice allay the advancing claiming of managing a cogent access in applications. Explaining the transition, Mr Fertik said from August 16, 2024, the accepted arrangement arrangement website would no best be accessible for changes, new appointments, or acceptance fee payments
He said chump account would additionally be bare amid August 16 and 26, and that no new accessories could be made, and absolute accessories cannot be annulled or rescheduled
However, Mr Fertik said, all appointed interviews would proceed as planned
"If you accept an arrangement already appointed during that time, it is still valid. We will still account you, and you should still appear to the admiral for your appointment", he said
Mr Fertik said on August 26, 2024, the admiral would barrage the new scheduling arrangement and advice about the new website would be acquaint on the embassy's official website and amusing media channels
He said that all applicants, including those with absolute appointments afterwards August 26, would be appropriate to actualize new accounts on this system
Mr Fertik assured that the amount of acceptance applications would abide the aforementioned with the new arrangement and that while best changes are on the abstruse side, some new account enhancements would be appear later
He addressed apropos about the accepted excess in acceptance processing, acquainted that the excess was primarily apprenticed by aberrant appeal rather than procedural issues
"If you attending at the cardinal of bodies who paid the acceptance application fee in 2019 afore the communicable and analyze it to the cardinal of bodies who did so in 2023, the cardinal in 2023 is amateur what it was in 2019," Mr Fertik explained
To abode the added demand, he said the admiral had added assets and added the cardinal of interviewing officers, and that this summer, 65 per cent added apprentice acceptance applications were candy compared to the aforementioned time aftermost year
For those gluttonous quicker appointments, Mr Fertik accent two options: the account abandonment programme for acceptable acceptance renewals, and the expedited arrangement action for emergency cases
However, he cautioned that the belief for expedited accessories are currently actual acrimonious due to aerial demand
BY JONATHAN DONKOR