Technological Systems Issue (Dept of State)

[Randy W]

June 26 - click the link for any more recent updates

 

 

Technological Systems Issue

June 26, 2015

 

Visa Systems Issues

 

• All visa-issuing embassies and consulates are now back online. We are scheduling visa interviews and issuing nonimmigrant and immigrant visas.
• We issued more than 300,000 nonimmigrant visas this week. Consular staff will work this weekend, to clear our backlog, which we anticipate will be gone by early next week.
  
• We are still experiencing problems with some online immigrant visa application forms. We are working around the clock to correct the issue.
  
• We deeply regret the inconvenience to travelers who are waiting for visas, as well as their families and U.S. businesses that have been affected.
  
• We continue to post updates to our website, travel.state.gov.

Q: How can you clear your backlog so quickly?

• As posts have been brought back online, we have been processing pending biometric checks. As those results are obtained and automatically transferred back to posts, our overseas staff has been completing the final adjudication steps to issue the visas.
  
• Between June 9 and June 19, 335,000 visas that ordinarily would have been printed were stuck in clearance. Of that number, nearly 300,000 have now been printed. We expect to eliminate the remaining backlog by early next week.

 

Edited June 27, 2015 by Randy W (see edit history)