US Expands Travel Opportunities To Cuban Travelers Hispanically Speaking News
go to original August 1, 2013

The U.S. government will extend the validity of the non-immigrant visas it awards to Cuban travelers from six months to five years, with the possibility of entering and exiting the country multiple times, the State Department said Wednesday.

“The State Department is changing the maximum validity of visitor visas for family and other personal non-immigrant travel from six months, as it is currently - six months single entry to five years multiple entries for qualified Cuban nationals,” Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters.

The move is forecast to reduce the financial burden for Cubans who want to request a B2 visa, given that they will only have to pay the fee to obtain the permit once.

“Increasing the validity (term) of the visas eliminates the bureaucratic and financial burden for Cuban travelers, who in the past had to come back again in person to request the visa each time they wanted to travel to the United States,” another State Department spokesman, Patric Ventrell, told Efe.

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