Visa appointments cancelled as consulates in Guangzhou, Wuhan and Shenyang suspend non-emergency services amid surging infections, according to WeChat announcement.
« : »US consulates in China have suspended most of their services because of the Covid-19 surge across the country. The US embassy in Beijing and consulate in Shanghai have limited their services to passport and emergency consular services. Consulates in Guangzhou, Shenyang and Wuhan will only offer emergency consular services until further notice, the US Mission to China announced on its WeChat account on Thursday evening. The announcement said the suspension was because of the “operational impacts caused by the surge of Covid-19 infections across China”. Visa services have been halted except for a few previously scheduled services in Shanghai. Regular visa appointments at all locations have been cancelled, and applicants must reschedule their appointments, it said. China has seen an unprecedented wave of infections since the country made a sudden U-turn from its zero-Covid policy last week.
