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വാഷിംഗ്ടൺ: ഇന്ത്യയിൽ നിന്നുള്ളവർക്ക് കുടിയേറ്റത്തിനല്ലാത്ത വീസ പുതുക്കുന്നതിന് നേരിട്ടുള്ള അഭിമുഖം ഒഴിവാക്കുന്ന ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സ് സംവിധാനത്തിൽ യുഎസ് മാറ്റം വരുത്തി. ഇതനുസരിച്ച് വീസ കാലാവധി കഴിഞ്ഞ് പന്ത്രണ്ട് മാസത്തിനുള്ളിൽ മാത്രമേ ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സ് പ്രോഗ്രാമിൽ അപേക്ഷിക്കാനാവൂ. നേരത്തേ ഇത് 48 മാസമായിരുന്നു.

വീസ പുതുക്കലിന് ഏറെ സൗകര്യമായിരുന്നു ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സ് പ്രോഗ്രാം. നിർദിഷ്ട യോഗ്യതയുള്ളവർ വീസ പുതുക്കുന്നതിനുള്ള അവശ്യരേഖകളെല്ലാം എംബസികളിലെയോ കോൺസുലേറ്റുകളിലെയോ ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സുകളിൽ നിക്ഷേപിച്ചാൽ മതിയായിരുന്നു. നേരിട്ടുള്ള അഭിമുഖത്തിനു ഹാജരാകേണ്ടതില്ലായിരുന്നു. എഫ്–1 വിദ്യാർഥി വീസയിൽ യുഎസിലെത്തി എച്ച്–1 ബി വിഭാഗത്തിലേക്കു മാറ്റം ലഭിക്കുമ്പോഴും മറ്റും ഇത് ഏറെ ഉപകാരമായിരുന്നു.

ഇനിയിപ്പോൾ വീസ കാലാവധി തീർന്നവർക്ക് 12 മാസത്തിനുള്ളിൽ അതേ തരത്തിലുള്ള വീസ പുതുക്കലിനു മാത്രമേ ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സ് സംവിധാനം ഉപയോഗിക്കാനാവൂ. ഡ്രോപ്ബോക്സ് പ്രയോജനപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്ന എച്ച്–1ബി, എൽ–1, ഒ–1 വീസക്കാർക്ക് പുതിയ നിബന്ധന ബുദ്ധിമുട്ടാകും. അഭിമുഖത്തിനുള്ള കാത്തിരിപ്പ് കാലാവധി കൂടുകയും ചെയ്യും.
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In the last few days, there has been so much confusion regarding the US Visa Dropbox/ Interview waiver eligibility rules change across many US consulates and US embassies in a few countries like India, Australia, etc. Many applicants faced issues at the US Consulate/Dropbox locations during their visa appointments.

There was no official announcement made by the US Department of State or US Consulates/ Embassies regarding the change in the Dropbox or interview waiver eligibility criteria. They made an abrupt decision and changed it overnight. Many applicants were scrambled and ended up in a difficult situation with their travels due to this appointment eligblity criteria changes.

In this article, we will review the changes and share the official confirmation from the USVisaScheduling Website’s actual questionnaire on the changes and who all it impacts like H1B, F1, Change of Status applicants, and others, even though there is no proper official announcement and also guidance given by them in an email reply from them.

Background: US Visa Interview Waiver/ Dropbox Rules in Years 2020 to 2025
In the year 2020, for the Dropbox/ interview waiver cases, the US Dept. of State, to help the situation and avoid public risk, increased the “12 months from expiry” requirement to “24 months from the expiry of the previous visa” for US visa renewals until March 31, 2021.

In March 2021, they released a press note indicating the expansion of dropbox visa stamping eligibility from “24 months from visa expiry” to “48 months from expiry” until Dec 31, 2021.
They subsequently extended the “48-months from expiry” for 2022 and 2023. They also added new provisions and extended it for 2024 and beyond. You can read full details at US Visa Interview Waiver Options Extended for 2024 & Beyond.
You may read the full history at US Visa Dropbox News History with Changes
Trump Administration Changes to Immigration, Extreme Vetting
After the Trump Administration took office in late January 2025, many executive orders signed by President Trump related to immigration and national interest. As part of that, the US Department of State was also asked to review its processes and implement extreme vetting.

The US Department of State abruptly changed the US Visa Waiver/ Dropbox eligibility criteria rules in India, Australia, and other countries without proper announcement to the public. Many applicants were stuck at the consulate as they did not know about the change and had to go back as well.

Let’s look at the changes and how they appear in the online system of USVisaScheduling.com

US Visa Dropbox Eligibility Changes in India: Reduced to 12 months
As of now, we do not have an official press release from any of the US Consular posts like the US Embassy India, US Embassy Australia, USTravelDocs India, or any other US Consulate. Also, no alerts on the US Visa Scheduling website.

Below are the list of changes based on how various screens appear in the USVisaScheduling.com website’s online questionnaire for Dropbox. We have included screenshots for more clarity.

For Dropbox, the previous US Visa has to be in the same category
In the past, if you were applying for H1B, H4, L1, or other US visas and you already had any US Visa issued in the past (except B1/B2), you were eligible for an interview waiver.

Now, with the new change, you are eligible for Dropbox or interview waiver only if your previous visa was in the same category. For instance, to be eligible for H1B Dropbox, you must have had an H1B visa in the past.

Example: In the past, if you had an F1 visa issued, you could have applied for first time H1B stamping using dropbox. Now, with the new changes, you are not eligible for dropbox as the question clearly asks the previous visa type during the questionnaire and asks for H1B only.

Below is the screenshot of the question on USVisaScheduling.com website comparing past two questions for H1B Visa renewal with the applicant having a past F1 visa. The new visa question mentions the specific visa type saying “previous H-1B Visa”.

For renewal, the previous US Visa should have expired within12 months
In the past, if you were renewing the same visa type, especially for B1/B2 visa or other non-immigrant visas, you were eligible for dropbox if your visa expired in the past 48 months.

Now, with the new change, your previous visa should have expired within the last 12 months. Also, in addition to this, you need to be renewing the visa in the same category as described above.

Below is the screenshot of the question on USVisaScheduling.com website comparing past and new visa question that captures the 12 months.

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‘Only God’: Massive ‘Miracle’ as Thousands of Students Choose Jesus, Confess Sin, Get Baptized

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Author and speaker Jennie Allen is witnessing what she calls a real-life “miracle.”

Allen told CBN News she was absolutely astounded last Wednesday night, when UniteUs, a ministry serving young people, arrived at the Rupp Arena at the University of Kentucky and saw thousands of students show up to praise the Lord.

“This is this is just all a miracle,” Allen said. “We are on our 12th University. Next week, we will go to 13th at Ohio State, and, in every single case, it has been miraculous.”

Images and photos show hordes of young people engaging in praise and worship, with many coming forward to accept the faith and get baptized.

“So many kids come forward, confess sin, follow Jesus, and we’re baptizing usually into the morning,” she said. “And it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It’s unlike anything I’ve even been bold enough to pray for … until recently.”

Allen continued, “You can just see all over the stadium, huddles of kids, wiping tears, nodding, praying, holding each other. I mean, it’s so precious and brave.”

After the event, four people baptized droves of young people for around an hour and a half, showcasing the full impact of these events. Allen mentioned one young man who was lost and not living right whose friend had been praying for him.

“He said, ‘I’m tired of living the way I was living and I want something to change,’” she said. “And he goes, ‘I’ve been going this way and now I need to go this way.’”

It was incredible for the man’s friend, who had been praying for him, to see him change right before his eyes.

“It can only be God,” Allen reiterated.

Despite never dreaming such events could be possible, Allen has been blown away by all God has done. It’s especially remarkable because these campus events are organized by local student teams who do all the fundraising and work to make it unfold.

The young team responsible for the University of Kentucky event had prayed fervently beforehand, doing a massive, 42-mile prayer walk around their campus.

Allen, who is gearing up for her own event, Gather25 — a “25-hour global broadcast event telling the inspiring stories of the global Church, by the global Church” — said it’s remarkable to see these revival-like moments unfolding on campuses across the globe.

Ultimately, she believes these simultaneous spiritual revivals are all God-ordained.
Sources:CBN News

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The most common and awful way God punishes sin

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Let’s face it, there are some scary stories in the Bible about God bringing His hammer down on people who do wrong.

In the Old Testament, you have stories like the one about Korah (see Num. 16), a guy who rebelled against Moses. Things didn’t go as planned, though, and his end was something out of an IMAX horror movie: “As he [Moses] finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men who belonged to Korah with their possessions” (Num. 16:31–32).

When you look at the New Testament for an example, you’ve got the story of Ananias and his wife Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) who told just one lie about how much money they got for selling some real estate and then, “Ananias fell down and breathed his last” (vs. 5) followed by “she fell at his feet and breathed her last” (vs. 10).

These stories, and similar ones in Scripture, remind us, as C. S. Lewis said, that Aslan is not a tame lion.

That’s why we’re told “the wages of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23) with the cross showing how seriously God takes sin. The cross is the only vehicle allowing Him to destroy sin and evil without destroying us in the process.

That said, today you don’t see the ground opening and swallowing those who thumb their nose at God’s authority or people who misrepresent their good deeds dropping dead at church. But that doesn’t mean a clear and present danger doesn’t exist for anyone who consistently traffics in sin.

Those that do rarely get a lightning strike from above, but instead something much worse in the long run. The Bible tells us over and over what that is and says it so much that if I were to quote all the places it’s mentioned, we’d be here for hours going over it all.

The enemy within

When talking about his previous drug addiction, actor Robert Downey Jr. said: “It’s like I have a loaded gun in my mouth, and I like the taste of metal.”

That pretty much sums up how God punishes us for our continuous sins — He gives us over to something our old nature likes the taste of and lets it eat us alive.

Paul talks about this process in Romans where he writes three times that, when people turn away from God, He “[gives] them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper” (Rom. 1:28). What follows afterward is a train-wrecked life for the unrepentant individual and, sadly, oftentimes also for those around them.

Legion is the tragic story of the impenitent thief, adulterer, liar, abuser, and power-hungry who seem to have it all on the outside, but are rotting away on the inside, which sooner or later externally manifests. Isaiah describes God’s judgment on our sin like this: “You have hidden Your face from us and have delivered us into the power of our iniquities” (Is. 64:7).

The Hebrew word used for “delivered” here is very descriptive and literally means “melted”, which conveys the idea of our sins dissolving us (shudder). But we shouldn’t be surprised because we’re told, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap” (Gal. 6:7).

The Old Testament character Job knew a little about ending up “howling and insufferable,” which is why he wrote: “According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble harvest it” (Job 4:8), and added that continuous sin causes people to be “delivered … into the power of their transgression” (Job 8:4).

And that’s a pretty terrible place to be.

Even non-Christians realize this. In their song, King Nothing, which describes the emptiness that accompanies a reckless self-indulgent life, the rock group Metallica warns, “Careful what you wish, you may regret it; Careful what you wish, you just might get it”.

Indeed.

So, while God may not open up the earth for us or send a massive coronary on the spot when we sin today, that doesn’t mean consequences don’t exist in this life for believers who constantly traffic in wrong with a clear conscience. God has hardwired the grief and pain experienced from sin into the sin itself.

That being true, we should remember a quote that’s typically attributed to Charles Spurgeon and do our best to avoid such error: “Sin will take you farther than you ever wanted to go, keep you longer than you ever wanted to stay, and cost you more than you ever wanted to pay.”
Sources:Christian Post

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‘They Want God’: 8,000 Students Seek Jesus in Huge Kentucky Revival, 2,000 Give Lives to Christ

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A supernatural Christian revival is stirring up once again on American college campuses through Unite US—an evangelistic movement marked by salvations, water baptisms, and worship. Last night at the University of Kentucky, more than 2,000 students responded to the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and many took part in spontaneous baptisms.

“It’s hard to believe. This keeps happening. It is insane,” said Unite US speaker and founder of IF:Gathering Jennie Allen.

Unite US was birthed out of a desire to “lift the name of Jesus.”

It all began at Auburn University’s Neville Arena in September 2023 where 5,000 students showed up to worship Jesus and 200 were spontaneously baptized in a nearby lake. And now, the organization hosts massive worship events making waves on college campuses across the country.

Collectively, those events have brought in more than 70,000 college students.

Their first stop in 2025 was the University of Kentucky, just 30 minutes from Asbury University where the first sparks of a new spiritual awakening were seen among American students in February of 2023.

This time, more than 8,000 students packed Rupp Arena to worship Jesus and to hear a powerful message on the Gospel.

“Every time they are confessing their sin, they are yelling it out. They are responding to the Gospel in herds. Like droves of kids are coming forward to receive Jesus,” said Allen. “We are baptizing kids for an hour and a half. [They are] giving their lives to Jesus.”

“It is only God,” she added. “There is a movement amongst students that you can’t believe. And even when you see it, you can’t believe it!”

CBN’s Abigail Robertson was there, and she attests to the almost indescribable move of God that took place on the campus.

“I’ve never seen anything like what happened last night. Kids lining up to get baptized in 30-degree weather—it’s truly amazing what’s happening,” she shared.

According to the event’s organizers, it is an event that they have been praying about for months.

“Our local student team organized weekly prayer gatherings and walked up to 42 miles one Saturday as they prayed over their campus,” the founder and visionary behind Unite US, Tonya Prewett, told CBN News.

“‘Jericho Marches,’ they called these Saturday prayer walks and we saw walls come down last night,” she added.

“We’ve been praying for this night for months, and God met us here again,” reads a post on social media. “We know it’s just the beginning of all He has in store.”

Prewett shared a powerful message with the crowd about giving it all to Jesus.

“You get so tired of the enemy and his attacks, that you will do anything. Even if it costs everything. Many times God will use our deepest pain to propel us into our deepest purpose,” she shared.

The night ended with hundreds of students making a public declaration for Jesus Christ, followed by water baptisms. And as each person rose out of the cool waters, cheers erupted from the crowd because another life was counted for the Kingdom of God.

“He did it again. Except for He did it bigger than He’s ever done it,” said Unite US speaker and Pastor Jonathan Pokluda of Harris Creek Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.

“It was just crazy,” he said. “All the aisles and the altars [were] just full of people. Literally thousands [of] college students came forward to give their lives to Jesus. My legs are sore, my arm is sore from baptizing people. And we say thanks to God. Praise be His Name.”

Unite US is bucking the claims that GenZ is spiritually apathetic.

“I think we’re a generation of critical thinkers, and I think we’re a generation of authenticity, and we’re a generation of vulnerability,” Trosper Buchanan, a junior at UK.

“I’ve seen and, and experienced firsthand, the death and the depravity that is disguised as the college experience. We’re just taught like this is what fulfills you and then this is life and then we, we take it and it kills us, and we’re like, ‘Well I guess, I guess something’s wrong with me,'” he continued.

Dr. Sarah Baldwin, Vice President of Student Life at Asbury University, was at Asbury two years ago when a revival hit the campus that lasted several weeks.

She told the outlet that GenZ is waking up to their true identity in Christ.

“The students are recognizing that like, ‘no, this is what I was designed for; this is the purpose that was set aside for me, this is the life… this is the love that Jesus has for me.'”

And events like Unite US are serving as a catalyst across many of those college campuses.

“Revival is here,” Allen said. “We’re not pulling teeth. We’re not doing magic tricks. We are just there responding to the Gospel. They want God. And it is so beautiful.”
Sources:BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS

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