According to press reports, the US Embassy in Havana has resumed processing immigrant visa interviews at its headquarters.
The diplomatic headquarters resumed interviews in its consular section on Thursday 29 December as part of the resumption of the immigrant visa process, “something that has not happened since 2017,” EFE said.
Due to adjustments in its schedule, the United States Embassy in Cuba has announced the postponement of all interviews from January 3rd to December 29th.
According to the aforementioned agency, the immigrant visa dates were originally scheduled for January 4, 2023, but the consulate “decided to postpone the date to this Thursday.”
Cuban government officials recently admitted that they have asked the United States government to resume the process for nonimmigrant visas, an issue they consider “important.”
Johana Tablada, the deputy director general for the United States at the State Department (Minrex), acknowledged that the US had delivered the 20,000 visas agreed between the two countries, but assured that the number was insufficient.
The Cuban diplomat stated that issuing immigrant visas “can help prevent illegal emigration”.
“In 2018, there were more than a million trips to Cuba between the two countries, most of them round trips,” he told OnCuba.
VISA AT THE UNITED STATES EMBASSY IN CUBA
In May 2022, the U.S. Embassy in Havana resumed limited processing of immigrant visas for IR-5 applicants (father or mother of a U.S. citizen).
Following a visit to the Cuban capital by the Director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, Ur Mendoza Jaddou, and the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, Rena Bitter, it was announced that the United States would resume processing immigrant visas by early 2023 State Embassy in Havana.