US Journey Reacts To ‘Customer Visa Wait Time Discount Act’

Having repeatedly petitioned the State Division in current weeks to prioritize enhancements in visa processing, citing the detrimental impact that delays having on the nation’s tourism economic system, The U.S. Journey Affiliation right now issued an official response to the information {that a} “Customer Visa Wait Time Discount Act” (H.R. 9141) has been launched to the legislature.

U.S. Journey’s Government Vice President of Public Affairs and Coverage, Tori Emerson Barnes, launched the next assertion:

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“We should cease turning away worldwide vacationers as a consequence of 400-plus day wait occasions that customer visa candidates are dealing with worldwide. It’s completely unacceptable and a major deterrent to our nationwide financial restoration. We applaud the bipartisan legislative motion launched by Reps. Salazar (R-FL) and Lee (D-NV) that directs the U.S. State Division to handle this pressing drawback. Spending by worldwide vacationers is vital to getting the U.S. economic system again on monitor, and decreasing visa wait occasions and welcoming these guests must be a centered nationwide precedence.”

The U.S. Journey Affiliation made positive to thank those that co-sponsored the invoice: Representatives Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Trone (D-MD), Gimenez (R-FL), Wild (D-PA), Titus (D-NV), Malinowski (D-NJ), Newhouse (R-WA), Horsford (D-NV), Larson (D-CT), Swalwell (D-CA), Case (D-HI), Kuster (D-NH), Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Plaskett (D-USVI).

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