• MEDIA: 36pc more visas processed across India after Covid-19 pandemic:

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 1 12:29:15 2023
    The anonymous Asian News International hack on Tony Blinken's
    State.GOV flack touting the end of Donald Trump's trademark
    Extreme Vetting: <URL:https://www.aninews.in/news/world/us/36pc-more-visas-processed-across-india-after-covid-19-pandemic-us-officials20230222072027/>
    | On January 21, the US Mission in India launched the first in a
    | series of special Saturday interview days to reduce wait times for
    | first-time visa applicants. The US Embassy in New Delhi and
    | Consulates in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Hyderabad all opened
    | consular operations on Saturday to accommodate applicants who
    | require in-person visa interviews.
    | The US Mission will continue to open additional slots for
    | appointments to take place on select Saturdays, according to the
    | statement released by US Embassy in India. These additional
    | interview days are among the measures that have been taken to
    | address the backlog in visa processing caused by COVID-19.

    Will Trump nominate Mike Pompeo to succeed Blinken at State.GOV
    if not to succeed Joe Biden or Kamala Harris at WhiteHouse.GOV?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "Wow, it looks like the politicized investigation into Trump's
    relationship with Russia was itself tainted by a Russian double-
    agent in the FBI. How deep does the rabbit hole go, Blue Anon?" -
    Second City Bureaucrat <URL:https://twitter.com/CityBureaucrat/status/1570817246678904832>

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