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Latest News
05 May 2022

While travel to the USA is now back to normal levels, there are still significant delays in geting visa interviews in some countries.

  • All international travellers will need to prove they are fully vaccinated before boarding a flight (for UK this will mean at least 2 weeks past your second vaccination).
  • They will also require a negative Covid-19 test within 24 hours of departure for the USA
  • Embassies in London, Belfast and Dublin are for visa processing, but there are significant delays and new processes.
  • Embassies may request you send in your legal documents before being able to apply for a visa interview. If you are directed to do this, please follow their instructions carefully and do this as soon as possible! This is as a result of significant staff issues with international courier firms as well as Royal Mail for domestic UK deliveries
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15th November 2021

Updated 30 November 2021

The US Embassy in London and the Belfast Consulate are now accepting and processing visa applications for J1 Intern, Trainee and Work and ...

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1st November 2021

As of November 8th 2021, travel to the US for fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed from the UK, Ireland and other countries currently affected by the ...

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20th September 2021

The White House has today announced the US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions for fully vaccinated travellers from the UK and most European countries from early ...

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Important: Although some international travel is allowed by the UK government, U.S. government travel restrictions remain in place for travel from the United Kingdom to the United States. ...

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Still waiting....

We still don't have concrete information from the US Embassy as to when they will reopen for visa interviews. We were all hoping this would have happened by now - and we feel ...

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By now, we were all hoping that US embassies would have re-opened and travel to the USA would have re-started.

While the UK Government put the USA on its Amber list on May 17th (which means travel ...

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On the 17th May, the UK government started allowing some international travel under the new "traffic light" system.

The USA is presently designated as an Amber ...

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On the 7th May 2021 the UK Government announced countries that would be placed in it's new "traffic light" system for travel. The United States has been placed in ...

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On May 4th 2021, the US Embassy in London and the US Consulate in Belfast resumed appointments for immigrant visas. The J1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa, ...

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We're all waiting for news as to when visa interviews can start again!

While restrictions in the UK have been relaxed, and travel for work is now allowed, the US Embassy is still ...

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There have been a number of international students (including previous J1 visa holders) who have received stimulus checks in error from the US Government's ...

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10th June 2020

We know how frustrating and disappointing the last few months have been for everyone who was hoping to travel to the USA and elsewhere.

Our teams at IST ...