Here is an important update for you the United States is contemplating eliminating the physical visa stamps on passports. That means the administration is striving to make US visas ‘paperless. Yes, you heard it right, it is almost on the edge that US visas stamped on passport pages of applicants could soon be a thing of the past as the US government is working on a pilot project under which the administration will issue paperless visas. Since this update came up it has been making headlines on the internet leaving netizens curious about it. In the following sections, we have poured in everything that you need to know about the paperless visa scheme of the US administration. So be sticky with this page and go through it till the end.
As part of the pilot project, the US authorities have been preparing to eliminate stamping on passports to make it paperless. Recently, the United States authorities completed a small-scale program in Dublin at its diplomatic mission. Now the authorities are planning to roll it out. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Visa Services, Julie Stufft said, “We did our first small scope pilot of a paperless visa, which means that the visa process is the same but there’s no physical visa in someone’s passport. We just piloted this for the first time, so this is not something that’s going to be happening in the next year,”
While speaking at a media round table conference organized by the Foreign Press Centre, with a group of foreign correspondents Stufft said, “It will take us probably 18 months to have widespread use of this or longer. But it is very exciting that we have had this first step where we have actually seen visitors come through and, in this case, they were immigrant visas without physical paper in their passports.
In the future, some countries will ultimately need an app to allow people to show their visa status without showing their passport physically. Stufft expressed her excitement about it and said she hopes paperless visas will be issued to Indian nationals as well. She claimed it was a long-term project which was piloted for the first time by them. In his conversation, Stufft also distinguished paperless visas and e-visa issued by Indian authorities to the people of some countries. Stay tuned to this website for further updates and more details.