US Embassy reduces the Visa duration for Pakistani Nationals

After the terrorist attack in Pulwama, there was another major setback to Pakistan surrounded the world. The US Embassy has reduced the visa period for the Pakistani nationals coming to their country. The first Pakistani citizens who received a visa of 5 years have now been reduced to 12 months.

According to the Pakistani newspaper The Tribune, the US Embassy ambassador present in Pakistan has informed the government about this. According to the news, it is more difficult for Pakistani journalists and media professionals in the new rules, the visa they received has been reduced to 3 months.

Visa duration for Pakistani citizens has been reduced to three months from five years, reports ARY News quoting US Embassy spokesperson. pic.twitter.com/5Pq2ylghhf

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Not only that, the United States has reduced visa duration and increased fees for the visa as well. That is, if a Pakistani citizen wants to go to the US, then he can not stay there for more than 12 months at a time. Moreover, if he has to stay there for a long time, he will have to return to Pakistan and renew the visa.

According to the new order, fees for Work Visas, Journalist Visas, Transfer Visas, Religious Visas have been increased. Further, any visa that is currently available for them has been increased from 32 to 38 dollars.

That is, if a Pakistani journalist wants to go to the US now, then he will have to pay $ 192 to apply for the visa, while in some other categories there is a fee of $ 198. According to the figures released by the US Embassy, about 38 thousand Pakistanis were denied a visa to the US in 2018.

Significantly, Pakistan has been experiencing tremendous shocks since the Pulwama terror attack. America has already banned Pakistan’s help given. Apart from this, there has been a lot of rhetoric to take action against terrorist organizations.

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