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Demystifying Student Visas
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Date: Tuesday, 13 June 2006
Time: 5:00 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT)
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Sally Ironfield, nonimmigrant visa chief at the U.S. Embassy New Delhi, India, discusses the process of acquiring visas to study in the United States in a USINFO webchat. More than 80,000 students from India are currently studying in the United States and U.S. officials would like to see that number increase. Ironfield answers questions about the visa application process, student eligibility and what to expect upon arriving at a U.S. campus.
Guest Biography: Sally Ironfield has been the Non-Immigrant Visa Chief at U.S. Embassy New Delhi, India, since August 2005. Prior to working in New Delhi, she served as chief of the Nonimmigrant Visa Unit in Warsaw, Poland. She has worked for the State Department since 1987 in various capacities before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1998, and has been posted to Kuwait, Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines. Prior to joining the State Department, she worked in the Reagan White House for seven years, primarily in congressional affairs.
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