Good intentions?…
This week I’ve seen the following in news sites:
“A virus has paralyzed the process of giving American visa in all the countries of the world.
In fact, it has paralyzed the computer system of the USA State Department and they stopped giving American entrance visas all over the world.
As far as I know the virus knocked out the USA Consular service (the Foreign Affairs Department) database. The point is that every person who has applied for an American visa must be checked through this database not to belong to any terrorist or other criminal groups.
The number of people in the database is around 13 million. It also includes data from the FBI and other special departments and services of the USA.
It is considered to be the virus called Welchia, which initially had a very good aim. Once Welchia comes into the system it doesn’t hurt it but visa versa detects and quickly removes harmful programs making a “patch” fro Windows”.
We are deeply concerned because we got several couples of our clients who’ve just applied for visas. Hope they are going to eliminate defects as soon as possible:(
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