{"id":80923,"date":"2025-11-18T05:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/priority-visas-for-world-cup-fans-u-s-facilitates-access\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:16:36","slug":"priority-visas-for-world-cup-fans-u-s-facilitates-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/priority-visas-for-world-cup-fans-u-s-facilitates-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Priority Visas for World Cup Fans: U.S. Facilitates Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Priority Visas for FIFA World Cup Fans in the U.S.<\/h2>\n\n\nFans who purchase tickets for the FIFA World Cup will receive priority in visa interviews before their arrival in the United States for the tournament.\n\nThis announcement was made on Monday after a meeting between then-U.S. President Donald Trump, the White House Task Force, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino.\n\nThe FIFA Priority Appointment Scheduling System, or FIFA PASS, aims to help the administration balance a strict immigration system while ensuring that visitors to the global football tournament can enter the United States smoothly.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>America welcomes the world. We have always said that this will be the biggest and most inclusive FIFA World Cup in history, and the FIFA PASS service is a very concrete example of this.<\/p><cite>Gianni Infantino, FIFA President<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nA total of eleven U.S. cities will host 78 matches during the 48-team tournament. In addition, three cities in Mexico and two in Canada will also host matches.\n\nWeeks after the tickets went on sale in October, FIFA announced that it had already surpassed one million tickets sold and that Phase 2 of sales had begun at the end of October for the next million tickets.\n\nTeams from around the world are in the final stages of qualifying to complete the 48-team group, with the United States, Mexico, and Canada already guaranteed spots. The group stage draw will take place on December 5th.\n\nTrump urged World Cup travelers to the United States to apply for their visas &#8220;immediately&#8221;.\n\nThe Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, reported that the administration has deployed more than 400 additional consular officials worldwide to manage visa demand, and that in approximately 80 percent of the world, travelers to the United States can obtain a visa appointment within 60 days.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priority Visas for FIFA World Cup Fans in the U.S. Fans who purchase tickets for the FIFA World Cup will receive priority in visa interviews before their arrival in the United States for the tournament. This announcement was made on Monday after a meeting between then-U.S. President Donald Trump, the White House Task Force, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1030,3060,641,7700],"class_list":{"0":"post-80923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-fifa-world-cup","9":"tag-tourism","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-visas"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}