美國暫停受理中印公民EB 1簽證 本財年名額已滿

The US State Department has temporarily halted EB-1 visa applications from Chinese and Indian nationals due to a "dramatic increase" in worldwide demand for the visas.

美國國務院已暫時停止受理中國和印度公民的EB-1簽證申請，原因是全球對該類簽證的需求"急劇增加"。

A State Department spokesperson said that it halted the application process to make sure it does not exceed the allotted annual limit for EB-1 visas, which is about 40,000 for this fiscal year.

美國國務院發言人稱，暫停申請程序是爲了確保不超過該類簽證的年度分配限額，本財年的EB-1簽證名額約爲4萬個。

No more than 7% of the visas can go to applicants from any one country, which means about 2,800 each for China and India.

任何國家的獲籤人數都不得超過名額的7%，這意味着中國和印度的名額各約爲2800個。

The two countries have already met their per-country annual limit, the spokesperson said.

該發言人表示，中印兩國本財年的名額已滿。

"In recent years, China and India have benefitted from our making these extra visas available, but because of the increase in demand and the fact that nationals of these countries have already reached their per-country annual limits, we are required to temporarily stop issuing visas to Chinese and Indian nationals," the spokesperson added.

該發言人補充說道：“近年來，中國和印度已經受益於我們的這些額外的簽證。但由於需求的增加，以及這些國家的國民已經達到了每一個國家的年度限額，我們必須暫時停止向中國和印度公民發放簽證。”

The EB-1 visa is available to three categories of candidates: people with extraordinary abilities in arts, science and business; researchers and professors; and multinational business executives and managers.

EB-1簽證簽發給3類申請人：藝術、科學和商界的傑出人才，研究人員和教授以及跨國企業的高管和經理。

Those who filed a petition for the visa can still get their employment and travel documents, but applicants cannot get to the next step of the process - the actual green card application - until the halt is reset in October, according to immigration lawyers.

據移民律師透露，那些提交簽證申請的人，仍可以獲得他們的就業及旅遊文件，但是申請者不能進入到這個過程的下一步，也就是實際綠卡申請，直到十月份時該暫停恢復。