US to launch new online visa form
Friday, 30 April 2010
The US Embassy in Dhaka will soon introduce a completely web-based Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) application form, reports UNB.
With demand for the US visas increasing worldwide, the State Department is committed to using new technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the visa application process, said a press release of the US Embassy.
The new DS-160 NIV application takes advantage of new technology to serve visa applicants better. It replaces all existing NIV applications forms with a single interactive, online form. Available now, applicants will be required to submit NIV applications using the DS-160, effective from May 15, 2010.
Applicants will continue to complete visa application forms online, as they did with the Electronic Visa Application Form (EVAF).
The new DS-160 is available at: ceac.state.gov/genniv. With the new form, each applicant will be required to upload a visa photograph, and submit the form via Internet. Instead of bringing multiple forms to his or her interview, some electronic and some handwritten, applicants using the DS-160 will now need only print one confirmation page.
The form is currently available in English. A Bangla language version of the form will be available soon. Additional information regarding the new form is available in the website at dhaka.usembassy.gov and dhaka.usembassy.gov/ds160.html.
With demand for the US visas increasing worldwide, the State Department is committed to using new technologies to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the visa application process, said a press release of the US Embassy.
The new DS-160 NIV application takes advantage of new technology to serve visa applicants better. It replaces all existing NIV applications forms with a single interactive, online form. Available now, applicants will be required to submit NIV applications using the DS-160, effective from May 15, 2010.
Applicants will continue to complete visa application forms online, as they did with the Electronic Visa Application Form (EVAF).
The new DS-160 is available at: ceac.state.gov/genniv. With the new form, each applicant will be required to upload a visa photograph, and submit the form via Internet. Instead of bringing multiple forms to his or her interview, some electronic and some handwritten, applicants using the DS-160 will now need only print one confirmation page.
The form is currently available in English. A Bangla language version of the form will be available soon. Additional information regarding the new form is available in the website at dhaka.usembassy.gov and dhaka.usembassy.gov/ds160.html.