-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STATE DEPARTMENT RELEASES ESTIMATES OF NEW V VISA WORKLOAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act (LIFE), passed last December, created a new visa category, the V visa, which will be issued to spouses and minor children of permanent residents who have had an immigrant visa petition pending for at least three years. To help consular officers know what kind of a workload they can expect as a result of the new visa, the State Department issued a memorandum estimating the number of applications that will be pending at each post. POST APPLICANTS Abidjan 107 Abu Dhabi 99 + 7 Beirut Accra 1,873 Addis Ababa 1,305 Algiers 48 Amman 841 Amsterdam 34 Ankara 310 Asuncion 26 Athens 20 Auckland 35 Bangkok 196 Belgrade 163 Belize 146 Bern 10 Bogota 1,954 Bucharest 255 Budapest 27 Brazzaville 1 Bridgetown 735 Brussels 13 Buenos Aires 104 Cairo 236 + 95 Khartoum files Caracas 323 Casablanca 170 Chennai 515 Ciudad Juarez 206,667 Colombo 46 Copenhagen 4 Cotonou 9 Dakar 279 Dar es Salaam 30 Damascus 272 Dhaka 3,435 Djibouti 26 Doha 20 Dublin 37 Frankfurt 144 Freetown 244 Georgetown 1,722 Guatemala City 2,391 Guangzhou 3,933 Guyaquil 2,231 Hamilton 10 Harare 20 Havana 1,967 Helsinki 9 Ho Chi Minh City 2,264 Hong Kong 505 Islamabad 2,162 Istanbul 34 Jakarta 79 Jerusalem 190 Johannesburg 31 Kathmandu 36 Kingston 3,664 Kinshasa 65 Kuala Lumpur 73 Kuwait 39 Lagos 1,753 La Paz 228 Libreville 6 Lima 1,367 Lisbon 117 Lome 36 London 367 Lusaka 12 Madrid 52 Managua 938 Manama 4 Manila 6,958 Monrovia 192 Montevideo 33 Montreal 633 Moscow 402 Mumbai 1,387 Muscat 9 Nicosia 16 Nairobi 213 Naples 126 Nassau 86 New Delhi 1,375 Niamey 5 Oslo 13 Panama 125 Paramaribo 34 Paris 90 Phnom Penh 95 Prague 109 Praia 376 Perth 2 Ponta Delgada 29 Port au Prince 6,267 Port Moresby 9 Port of Spain 782 Rangoon 81 Reykjavik 7 Rio de Janeiro 294 Riyadh 100 Sanaa 885 San Jose 140 San Salvador 4,758 Santiago 138 Santo Domingo 14,596 Seoul 800 Singapore 29 Skopje 46 Sofia 145 Stockholm 24 Suva 104 Sydney 27 Taipei 568 Tegucigalpa 2,415 Tel Aviv 86 Tirana 93 Tokyo 185 Tunis 12 Va11etta 7 Vienna 17 Vientiane 43 Warsaw 3,791 Yaounde 114 Zagreb 31 ZZZ 789 (homeless cases to be assigned) Worldwide total 296,857 This list reflects only cases that are currently pending at the National Visa Center, not those that are still at INS Service Centers, nor cases that have been sent to consulates for final processing. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------