The US Diplomat to Ghana, Virginia Palmer, has communicated the responsibility of the US Consulate to get the accumulation free from visa applications from planned Ghanaian understudies trying to seek after examinations in the US.
She said the international safe haven was at present working nonstop to get understudies' visa interview arrangements on chance to empower fruitful ones to go early.
Ms Palmer, thusly, urged planned understudies wanting to attempt undergrad, post-graduate and doctorate certification in the US not to be dissuaded by deferred arrangement interviews in going on to concern US colleges.
Non-emigrant visas
Welcoming prospective students to the opening of the 2022 Education USA College Fair in Accra, Ms Palmer said “I have, with permission, taken every officer with the Consulate and put them to work on the visa line.
“The Consulate section has opened up lots of appointments for non-emigrant visas and I will encourage people that need to go to the United States to go ahead and apply for visas,” she said.
Education fair
The two-day fair brought together about 40 high education institutions in the US to offer the students accurate, comprehensive, and current information about opportunities for students to study at accredited universities in the US.
Some of the participating universities are Howard University, Drexel University, Emory University School of Law, Millersville University, Iowa State University of Science and Technology and Middle Tennessee State University.
The rest are New York Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Taxes Technology University, PACE University, Webster University, University of Houston-Victoria, University of Arizona and University of Kentucky.
Interview waiver
The US ambassador said given the concerns over visa application backlog, the embassy had instituted another programme, dubbed, “Interview waiver programme” to support people who already had expired visas to renew them without going back to the embassy.
“You can just send visa application to us by mail and those renewals are very straightforward,” she assured the public.
She also said the embassy had instituted a procedure by which prospective students could request for expedite visa appointments.
With around 4,200 understudies concentrating on right now in 630 different instructive establishments in the US in 2021 alone, Ms Palmer said Ghana was the second most elevated "source" of understudies to the US.
Moreover, the diplomat showed that Ghana was additionally among the main 25 nations universally that sent alumni understudies to the US.
Subsequently, she said, she had proactively urged Ghanaian understudies to proceed to concentrate on in the US.
A Delegate Priest of Instruction, Fire up. John Ntim Fordjour, was glad that instruction had held the connection among Ghana and the US together throughout the long term.
He noticed that the organization with the US Consulate had been shared, empowering Ghana to appreciate instructing and gaining materials from the US International safe haven
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