U.S. to restart immigrant visa processing in Cuba in 2023 to discourage illegal migration

[El Presidente]

 

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U.S. to restart immigrant visa processing in Cuba in 2023 to discourage illegal migration

BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022 / 1:04 PM / CBS NEWS

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-cuba-visa-us-processing-havana-2023/

The Biden administration will fully resume immigrant visa processing at the American embassy in Havana in early 2023 as part of an effort to discourage illegal immigration from Cuba, which has seen record numbers of its citizens flee to the U.S.-Mexico border over the past year, officials announced Wednesday.

When the policy change takes effect, Cubans sponsored by their U.S.-based relatives will no longer need to travel to Guyana for interviews with U.S. consular officers, one of the required steps in the immigrant visa process. Instead, all Cubans applying for visas to come to the U.S. will undergo these interviews at the embassy in Havana.

The upcoming shift will fully reverse the Trump administration's decision in 2017 to halt visa processing in Cuba and require applicants to undergo interviews at the U.S. embassy in Guyana. The Biden administration had restarted limited visa processing in Havana earlier this year.

 

[helix]

That is good news.

[Ken Gargett]

quite some years ago, a cuban friend was hoping to visit autsralia. our brilliant bureaucrats were useless.

she'll need to go to an aussie embassy. 

so where might she do that?

i am not making this up - he suggested that she go to the one in DC. 

when i asked about the embargo, i got "the what?". i suggested that the department had a film night and showed '13 days'. the response was 'why? is it a good movie?'

[anacostiakat]

This is because of border is secure.  

[BoliDan]

It's good they have a legal route in the country again. Will it stop the rafts made from empty mayonnaise jars coming to S. Florida? I don't know

[Chas.Alpha]

1 hour ago, anacostiakat said:

This is because of border is secure.  

Must be, if they're making legal immigration possible again.