When the applicant to apply for a visa in American consulate, the visa officer may not be the same day visa approval, but has not refused visas, but tell the applicant,The consulate to do administrative review(administrative processing). Most visas, includingF1,J1,H1B,L1And so on, are likely to be the administrative review. Say simply, administrative review is the consular himself or entrust other departments of the State Council (including America in office, or American immigration visaFBIThe applicant) to perform a background investigation, to determine whether the process to give visa. Administrative review period is generally a few weeks, but individual months or more than one year.

In order toL1As an example. IfL1Visa applicants meet the administrative review, the consulate will at least personally understand the applicant company situation. If the applicant company is located in the seat of the Consulate General of city, the consulate may be sent home to check; if not in the same city, the consulate will send someone to call the relevant personnel of the company (general is responsible for the visa and visa application materials left in HR or administration). In addition, the consulate will understand the situation in other ways, such as the company's Web site. So, ifL1The applicant meets the administrative review, relevant personnel must be fully communicate and company, toldL1The situation of the application, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Some administrative review stops here, in this way, the consulate will soon notify the applicant to apply for a visa or payment (for exampleL1Visa reciprocity fee required). In some cases, the consulate will take the information to other departments to further review, such as USA state below the visa office, America immigration, orFBI. Review the contents of these departments is the name of the applicant, fingerprints and other personal information and background, in order to determine whether the applicant belongs to the people will not be allowed into the country America (such as the terrorists or in American had lost identity experience etc.). In this way, the administrative review will be a long time.

Although the administrative review may take some time, but is not terrible, as long as the applicant not to false materials, do not deceive American consulate general will pass. Of course, other staff sometimes in the company may not know the exact information of the visa applicant to the United States, so the communication work appropriate or necessary.

USA state to be reminded on its website: general administrative review60Days; if the visa applicant to query the schedule, please60Days after the query.

 After the applicant opened a visa application account on the net, if the administrative review, can also query the progress in its own account. In addition, if the contact has changed (such as company telephone number or mobile phone number), we must promptly notify the consulate to update the relevant information. If the consulate to request additional information should be fully in accordance with the requirements, submit the supplementary information.