{"id":13170,"date":"2025-08-29T13:51:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=13170"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:21:28","slug":"us-state-department-afghan-visa-interview-location-will-be-determined-based-on-current-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/us-state-department-afghan-visa-interview-location-will-be-determined-based-on-current-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department: Afghan visa interview location will be determined based on current residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13171\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/USA-afghan-visa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>US State Department: Afghan visa interview location will be determined based on current residence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The US State Department has announced that starting November 1, Afghan immigrant visa interviews will be based on applicants&#8217; current residence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>This decision does not apply to Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants and only applies to other applicants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Under the change, Afghans living in countries with US consular services will be interviewed in the same country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>But people living in countries without a US consulate, such as Afghanistan and Iran, are referred to a specific center in a third country for an interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Also, requests to change the location of the interview are only accepted through the National Visa Center (NVC) online form, with exceptions only in humanitarian, health or foreign policy considerations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In response to the decision, Afghan Evac warned that the change could create new challenges for Afghan refugees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>However, the organization has stressed that it will continue to support fair, effective and humane processes for dealing with Afghan cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US State Department: Afghan visa interview location will be determined based on current residence. The US State Department has announced that starting November 1, Afghan immigrant visa interviews will be based on applicants&#8217; current residence. This decision does not apply to Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants and only applies to other applicants. Under the change, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13172,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13170\/revisions\/13172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}