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State Department Liberalizes Standards for Immigrant Intent for Student Visa Applicants

3/28/2007

The State Department has issued a cable to the visa posts to give a guidance on the interpretation and application of "immigrant intent" in the context of student visa as opposed to the visitor's visa applicants.

The guidance requires that the visa posts focus on "present intent" and not the "future intent" and unless there is an evidence of immediate and present intent of immigrant, the posts should not second guess contingencies of future intent and deny the student visa applications. This liberal policy is likely to reduce the student visa denial rate substantially in the future.
The denial rate of the student visa as of now is close to 30% because of the visa posts' second guessing of the student visa applicants' potential change of situation after a long stay in the U.S. as a student, forming an immigrant intent.




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