With the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, many services were impaired or even suspended, as was the case with issuance of visas for travel to the United States. Currently, however, the waiting time for the interview for the tourist and business visa for the United States in São Paulo is 484 days, with no estimate for reducing this time, at least in the future brief.
According to Natália Molano, spokesperson for the US Consulate General in São Paulo, “the system is very dynamic, changing every day. The average waiting time for the first tourist and business visa interview is around 484 days, but we have other categories of visas students, exchange students and temporary workers, where the waiting time today is less than three days in São Paulo”, she said in an interview with a radio program.
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Just this week, waiting time broke the November 2021 record, going from 500 days. Molano said that the consulates are trying to reduce this time, hiring and training new employees, but he stressed that it is not possible to establish a deadline for reducing the wait, since only consular workers can provide the visa, and it cannot be an automated procedure with machines, for example.
A tip is to use a digital tool that makes it possible to check the waiting time in other regions of Brazil, for For example, a person from São Paulo can carry out the interview in Brasília, Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre or Recife, according to the time of stay. wait.
Thus, the guidelines to try to shorten this period to obtain the visa are:
- Monitor the inclusion of new times in the scheduling system, as there are many last-minute cancellations, without rescheduling costs;
- Check the waiting period at different consulates;
- It is recommended to renew the visa within four years, thus avoiding the need for a new interview;
- Emergency requests are made in another system.
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