The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) and consular sections worldwide, including those in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, are experiencing significant technical problems with their visa systems. These problems stem from a hardware failure at a State Department facility in the United States on June 9, which is preventing the processing and transmitting of certain data checks. These data checks are a security-related legal requirement for issuing visas, and cannot be bypassed. Consequently, these system issues are forcing some visa applicants to reschedule their interviews, and are preventing consular sections from printing almost all visas approved after June 8. CA is working around the clock on a solution, but the problems and the resulting backlogs in both interviewing applicants and printing visas will likely persist at least another week.
CA has established worldwide standards for emergency visa processing during this period. However, the standards are strictly limited to urgent humanitarian travel, adoption cases, certain immigrant visas cases, and high level official and diplomatic travelers. While Mission Thailand’s Consular Sections are still accepting visa referral cases, applicants who do not meet CA’s standards for emergency processing will face these same processing delays.
We appreciate your patience and regret any inconvenience caused by these delays. Further information and procedures for visa applicants affected by these issues can be found on Mission Thailand’s website. Once CA succeeds in restoring visa systems, the Bangkok and Chiang Mai Consular Sections will devote all available resources to eliminating the interviewing and printing queue in as short a time as possible.
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA) and consular sections worldwide, including those in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, are experiencing significant technical problems with their visa systems. These problems stem from a hardware failure at a State Department facility in the United States on June 9, which is preventing the processing and transmitting of certain data checks. These data checks are a security-related legal requirement for issuing visas, and cannot be bypassed. Consequently, these system issues are forcing some visa applicants to reschedule their interviews, and are preventing consular sections from printing almost all visas approved after June 8. CA is working around the clock on a solution, but the problems and the resulting backlogs in both interviewing applicants and printing visas will likely persist at least another week. CA has established worldwide standards for emergency visa processing during this period. However, the standards are strictly limited to urgent humanitarian travel, adoption cases, certain immigrant visas cases, and high level official and diplomatic travelers. While Mission Thailand’s Consular Sections are still accepting visa referral cases, applicants who do not meet CA’s standards for emergency processing will face these same processing delays. We appreciate your patience and regret any inconvenience caused by these delays. Further information and procedures for visa applicants affected by these issues can be found on Mission Thailand’s website. Once CA succeeds in restoring visa systems, the Bangkok and Chiang Mai Consular Sections will devote all available resources to eliminating the interviewing and printing queue in as short a time as possible.
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