{"id":2712,"date":"2019-11-06T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2019-11-06T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T20:21:19","slug":"department-state-standard-review-blanket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/department-state-standard-review-blanket\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of State Clarifies Standard of Review for Blanket L Visa Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State recently updated its guidelines regarding the review of Blanket L visa applications, stating that applicants must demonstrate their eligibility by &#8220;clear and convincing evidence.&#8221; Further, consular officers are directed by the new guidelines to deny Blanket L applications if any questions about an applicant&#8217;s eligibility cannot be quickly and easily resolved during the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Under longstanding guidelines, Blanket L-1 visa applicants at U.S. consulates must demonstrate that their applications are &#8220;clearly approvable,&#8221; while USCIS petitions are subject to a lower &#8220;preponderance of the evidence&#8221; standard. While the new guidelines do not change the standard by which consular officers approve Blanket L applications, they may result in higher application denial rates. Blanket L-1 visa applicants should be prepared to describe their qualifications as clearly as possible during their interviews in order to lessen the chance of denial for their applications.<\/p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact our office with any further questions regarding this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State recently updated its guidelines regarding the review of Blanket L visa applications, stating that applicants must demonstrate their eligibility by &#8220;clear and convincing evidence.&#8221; Further, consular officers are directed by the new guidelines to deny Blanket L applications if any questions about an applicant&#8217;s eligibility cannot be quickly and easily resolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2713,"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":[17,14,8,11,15,38,10,41],"tags":[158,46,60,28],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712"}],"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=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/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=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}