Posted on 05/23/2016 1:43:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Embassy in Venezuela has temporarily stopped scheduling appointments for first-time visa seekers because of the consular staff is insufficient to serve the overwhelming demand, the consular office announced.
The measure applies to all new tourist and business visas, for which an average of 1,800 applications were being filed daily.
"We had to make this decision because in the last eight months [Venezuela's] Foreign Ministry hasn't responded to various requests to increase personnel," said Lola Petrova, the embassy spokeswoman.
She said that with the current number of employees they can handle 800 daily appointments at the most.
In an average year, the U.S. embassy in this crisis-stricken country processes around 290,000 visa applications.
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Venezuelan women are smoking hot. This might be another foreign wife gold rush opportunity. And food has been scarce lately, so they’ll be slender and lovely.
Just sayin’
Refugees from another failed state wanting to head to El Norte.
State is devoting its resources to surging Muslims. Venezuelans are the wrong ethnicity and religion, and mostly heterosexual.
Not enough muzzies in Venezuela to warrant a full staff.
I need to confer with Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Danny Glover and other Hollywood socialist to explain why the rush to leave this socialist paradise filled with wonderful people...
I simply don’t understand why they would want to come to America, land of the imperialist, evil running dog capitalists...
They just need to get visas to Mexico and then step across the border.
VZ probably does not want its citizens leaving that hellhole. That’s the problem with advanced socialist economies, everyone wants to flee!
Forward comrades.
And Maduro has left the country... Hmmm....
That seems very high. In a normal year, do they ever leave the USA?
I need to confer with Michael Moore, Sean Penn, Danny Glover and other Hollywood socialist to explain why the rush to leave this socialist paradise filled with wonderful people...
I simply don’t understand why they would want to come to America, land of the imperialist, evil running dog capitalists...
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