US pauses immigrant visa interviews for global consular training

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The State Department has halted worldwide immigrant visa applications to support a global training initiative aimed at helping consular officers more thoroughly assess applicants for future public-benefit dependence; interview appointments are being rescheduled with no announced resumption date as part of broader immigration-policy changes.
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