{"id":2496,"date":"2019-02-06T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T19:34:08","slug":"state-department-reducing-interview-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/state-department-reducing-interview-china\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department Reducing H and L Visa Interview Locations in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on March 1, 2019, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustraveldocs.com\/cn\/index.html?firstTime=No\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States State Department will only conduct H and L visa interviews in China at three locations<\/a>: the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, and the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. As such, H and L visa interviews will no longer be conducted at the U.S. Consulates located in Chengdu or Shenyang.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction of the number of locations where H and L visa interviews are conducted is intended to consolidate the resources and expertise allocated to a large H and L visa caseload. Therefore, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. Consulates in Guangzhou and Shanghai will absorb H and L visa interviews from the U.S. Consulates in Chengdu and Shenyang. Because of this, applicants should prepare themselves for potentially longer wait times for visa interviews at these three locations.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact our office if you have any questions regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning on March 1, 2019, the United States State Department will only conduct H and L visa interviews in China at three locations: the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, and the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. As such, H and L visa interviews will no longer be conducted at the U.S. Consulates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17,14,8,9,11,15,38,10,41],"tags":[117,121,44,58,107,26,60,28],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}