General Visa Interview Waiver or Dropbox Stamping Eligibility Criteria
1
You need to have a Visa renewal in the same category. Meaning, let’s say you have a renewal for H1B, then your previous visa in your passport should be H1B as well.
2
The most recent visa should have been issued in your same country. (The same country requirement was removed in mid-2021.)
3
Visa was received after Jan 1, 2008
4
Your visa should not have annotations like “Clearance Received” or “Department Authorization”
5
Your visa should be issued after your 14th birthday
6
Your US visa was not lost, stolen, or canceled.
7
There were no US visa refusals in any other visa class, since your recent visa issuance.
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If applying for H, L, or R visa, it should be valid or expired within the last 12 months. Also, if it is other classes of visa renewal, it is still the same 12 months requirements (should be valid or expired in the last 12 months).