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Sunday, July 13, 2025

US resumes processing student visas for T&T nationals

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23 days ago
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Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Sean Sobers

Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Sean Sobers

NICOLE DRAYTON

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that the Em­bassy of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca has of­fi­cial­ly re­sumed pro­cess­ing stu­dent visa ap­pli­ca­tions for in­ter­na­tion­al stu­dents plan­ning to pur­sue aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes in the Unit­ed States.

This fol­lows the end of a tem­po­rary sus­pen­sion on stu­dent visa ap­point­ments, which had been in place since May 2025. The min­istry wel­comed the de­vel­op­ment, ac­knowl­edg­ing its im­por­tance to na­tion­als who have se­cured ad­mis­sion to ac­cred­it­ed in­sti­tu­tions across the US.

The state­ment said ap­pli­cants for stu­dent visas—specif­i­cal­ly the F-1, M-1, and J-1 cat­e­gories—are strong­ly en­cour­aged to care­ful­ly fol­low all of­fi­cial guide­lines is­sued by the US De­part­ment of State. Par­tic­u­lar at­ten­tion should be paid to any re­quire­ments re­lat­ed to so­cial me­dia ac­count ac­ces­si­bil­i­ty and oth­er sup­port­ing doc­u­men­ta­tion.

The For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­istry ad­vised prospec­tive ap­pli­cants to en­sure all in­for­ma­tion sub­mit­ted is ac­cu­rate, com­plete, and con­sis­tent with the in­struc­tions set out by US au­thor­i­ties, to help en­sure smooth pro­cess­ing of their ap­pli­ca­tions.

The min­istry reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing na­tion­als in ac­cess­ing ed­u­ca­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties abroad and said it would con­tin­ue to work close­ly with Trinidad and To­ba­go’s bi­lat­er­al part­ners to ad­vance this goal.


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