New guidelines for USA visa for
the year 2022 are recently announced and this got a lot of
people excited. A lot of people are wondering whether they
qualify for an interview waiver. In this video, I'm going to
demystify all this hype and help you understand this updates. So
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L visa. So make sure that you subscribe and stay tuned. Now in
the last two months, getting an interview of slot has been an
absolute nightmare, we can totally understand all the pain
that most of you are going through to get that coveted
interview slot and in this context, any use of interview
waiver can seem like a huge relief and I think that is
something that people were hoping from the new update,
which was put out by the embassy.
Unfortunately, it
doesn't quite live up to the hype, especially for Indians and
this video, I'm going to explain exactly why and also help you
understand whether you do have that slim chance of qualifying
for interview waiver. So let's get started. In the description
box below, there is a very useful tool called the interview
waiver check. I've created this tool to help you understand
whether you qualify for an interview waiver or not. So just
enter few of your details and this will immediately tell you
whether all these updates apply to you or not. So the update
essentially talks about two different ways in which you can
qualify for an interview waiver and let's understand both of
these in depth. The first one is by being a citizen or national
of a country, which falls under the interview waiver program.
So
the US has an interview waiver program, which has a list of
about 40 countries in it and if you are a citizen or national of
any of these countries, then you automatically qualify for an
interview waiver. Now the list of these 40 countries is there
in the description box below there is a link, you can click
on that and view that list. But India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,
Nepal, the Middle East countries, African countries do
not fall under this list of 40 countries. So which means that
bulk of you who are watching this video today will not
qualify for an interview waiver under the first condition. This
brings us to the second part and this is essentially the main
update, which has been put out by the US Embassy and let's
understand this in detail. So the second update applies to the
work visas, that is H and O it applies to the P and Q visas. It
also applies to the Student and Exchange visas, that is F and J
and it also applies to all the dependents which come under
these visa categories. So essentially, it covers the bulk
of the non immigrant visas to the US.
Now this second update
lists three conditions, and you need to qualify or gather you
need to fulfill all of these three conditions to be eligible
for an interview waiver. The first one is that you need to
have a valid US visa issued. So a US visa is to be issued to you
this visa needs to be valid, this visa can be in any
category, they do not restrict any category of visa under this.
The second condition is that either you should not have any
history of yours visa rejection, or that rejection needs to be
rectified.
That means that either you never had a US visa
rejection or even if you had a US visa rejection, subsequently
you reapply again, and then eventually got the visa. So just
to explain this further, let's say that you applied for a B2
visa, and that visa was rejected. So if that rejection
is still valid, you do not qualify for the interview
waiver. But if you apply for the visa again, and subsequently
your B2 Visa Card accepted, then you do qualify for the interview
waiver. Please know that you really have to understand that
the first and the second points are similar, but they are
independent of each other.
Which means that you need to have a
valid US visa at the same time, no history of rejection under
any category. So let's say that you have a valid F visa, but you
have a B2 visa rejection, which eventually did not get the B2
visa, you still don't qualify for the interview waiver. So
these are the intricacies which needs to be really understood
regarding the first and the second condition and after this
comes the third condition, and this is where the gray area
really lies.
So this condition says that there should not be
any apparent or potential in eligibility. Now what exactly do
they mean by this apparent or potential intelligibility is not
spelled out. Just like how in US visa denials. You're not really told the
reason for denial. Similarly, what exactly is this potential
or apparent in eligibility is not clear as of now. This is
totally up to the discretion of the visa officer, the consular
officer, most likely they will look at details of your
education, your work profile your travel history, to
determine whether you have any potential or apparent in
eligibility in the coming few days or weeks, I think more
clarity will be given on this criteria and of course, I'll be
tracking it on this channel and bring it and give it to you like
here.
So, these are the three conditions which need to be
satisfied and like I said before, all of these three
should be valid for you to qualify for an interview waiver.
Now, given the nature of these conditions, I believe that bulk
of people who will be applying for the US visa do not really
meet these criteria, which means that we are back to square one.
So even at the end of all of this, if you're still confused,
whether you do qualify for an interview waiver or not, you can
check the link in the description box below, there is
a very useful tool called the interview waiver check and I
have created this tool, which will, in a few seconds tell you
whether you qualify for interview waiver or not.
So you
just need to enter your few details and check it and this
will tell you whether you qualify for an interview waiver.
So in conclusion, most of you will still need to appear for an
interview and for this, I would advise that don't give up keep
tracking availability of slot there are two hacks or other two
methods, which really works. The first one is to be part of
telegram groups. So there are a lot of telegram groups where
people are updating the availability of slots, the time
in which the slots get released, so do join these groups, make
use of the information there and try to book a slot. The link for
all these telegram groups, as mentioned in the description box
below. The second way is to get an emergency appointment. So a
lot of emergency appointments are being released and this is
again, a way in which you can try to get an interview date.
How exactly to go about this process, there is a separate
video on this, I'm gonna link this video above, make sure that
you check it out and if you need my help in drafting your
emergency visa application, do get in touch with me and once
you have that interview slot, you really need to go ahead and
smash that interview.
For an in depth interview prep, you can
either book a one to one consultation session with me or
you can take a mock interview. Both of these are tremendously
useful and it'll really help you in a single US visa interview.
So I mentioned a ton of resources. The link for all of
this is right below in the description box. So make sure
that you check it out. That's all for today all the new
updates will be tracked very very closely by me and it will
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That's all for today's signing off for now.
Wish you all a very happy new year and let's hope that the
entire drama around the slot availability comes to an end. So
see you in the next one. Bye.