US EMBASSY IN BELIZE UNABLE TO PROCESS VISA APPLICATIONS

November 02, 2006

Since Monday of this week the Consular Unit of the U.S. Embassy in Belize has not been able to process visa applications. Love news spoke with Consul at the Embassy Cindy Gregg.

Cindy Gregg: Consul at the U.S Embassy

“We look at the year 1492 and the impact that that had and the resulting changes they were at such an extent that that was what revolutionized foods as we know it, culture as we know it. Like, for example we know that cocoa is indigenous to the Americas and we know that right now the world’s top producers of cocoa are from Africa so we looked at things like that. We looked at old world exchanges that went to the new world. Corn went to Africa, where it became the staple diet of Africans, its now incorporated into more than a hundred different types of meals that have corn as that base. We look at potato; how it came here from South America and basically we eat potato salad. We asked questions like how French is deprived, how Italian is the tomato. We looked at food and what would be termed national dishes and dissecting them, what are the crops, the food items they are made from and where do the come from. We look at the old and the new world exchange and basically that is it.”

Gregg explains what is being done with people who have already submitted their applications.

Cindy Gregg: Consul at the U.S Embassy

“When they submitted their visa application, we had to give them an appointment time. We’re asking that they come in on their scheduled appointment time and pick up their passports and they’ll be given a new appointment time and the appointment will either be November 27 or after that at the new embassy in Belmopan. November 27 we’re going to be open at the new embassy in Belmopan on Floral Park road and we’ll be open at eight o’clock but when the people come in to pick up their passports on the day of their appointments here, we will give them an appointment in Belmopan. If they wish to apply for a visa they can apply on November 29 in Belmopan and they will have to have the computer generated application that’s done of the evisa form state.gov site.”

Cindy Gregg Consul at the U.S. Embassy.

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