Opportunity
A survey of the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Networks
The U.S. National Academies’ Board on International Scientific Organizations (BISO) has launched a project to assess the experiences of our international colleagues in applying for a short-term business visa to visit the United States. As a valued member of the international scientific community, we need your help with this important project.
If you are a scientist, engineer, or medical professional who does not currently reside in the United States and has applied for or considered applying for a short-term business visa to visit the United States in the past 10 years for a collaboration, convention, conference, or seminar, we invite you to click the following link (or copy and paste into your browser) to complete a brief online survey about your visa application experience. The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. We have hired a specialist agency, KGL Consulting, to collect data on this issue.
Your responses will help us understand how current visa processes impact international meetings and international collaborations. Your experiences and views are vital for shaping discussions on this issue and achieving positive outcomes for the global scientific community. BISO is a unit of the National Academies, a non-governmental organization with no control over U.S. visa regulations or processes.
Thank you for your participation. If you have questions prior to taking the survey, please reach out to KGL Consulting at annette.hager@kwglobal.com
Please forward this invitation to any colleagues who may be interested in sharing their thoughts about their visa application experience. The deadline for responses is 12:00 (UTC) on 31 October 2024. Input from the survey will be summarized in a public report to be released in 2025.
Announcing Institution