Washington ordonne une pause mondiale dans les rendez-vous pour les visas d'immigrants
The U.S. government is observing a temporary pause worldwide in appointments for obtaining a visa to emigrate to the United States, while consular agents are being trained, the State Department announced Wednesday.
These appointments, which essentially consist of an interview between a foreign national applying for a visa and a consular officer, will be "adjusted" to allow for this training, a State Department spokesman told AFP in an email, confirming reports in the American press.
This exceptional measure applies to all American embassies and consulates worldwide. It does not affect tourist, student, business, or temporary work visas in the United States.
It was not specified when these meetings might resume, but a State Department official speaking on condition of anonymity suggested a pause of "several weeks" according to embassies.
The training, initiated at the beginning of the month but which began this week, aims in particular to ensure that "visa applicants do not risk becoming a burden on the state," according to the State Department. The department has been working since the beginning of the year to update guidelines and training related to the concept of "public burden."
Foreign nationals applying for visas should be notified of changes to appointments with consular officials, which may be rescheduled, the same source added.
Donald Trump made the fight against illegal immigration a priority, massively deporting undocumented immigrants, but also widely restricting, sometimes draconianly, the legal entry of foreign nationals, and severely punishing foreigners who overstay their visas in the United States.
However, several of his key measures have been rejected by the courts.
On Tuesday, the US government indicated it was prepared to revoke the business and tourist visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who had applied for asylum in the United States, which the White House said would be "the largest visa revocation in the country's history."
In early August, the State Department announced that since Donald Trump's return to power in January 2025, some 175,000 foreigners in the United States had had their visas revoked for reasons as varied as criminal activities, violations of the law such as driving under the influence or for having "celebrated" the assassination of the conservative Charlie Kirk.
However, a US federal judge last Friday declared illegal the freeze, decreed in January for 75 countries, on visa procedures allowing permanent residence in the United States.
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