Easing of U.S. HIV Rule Benefits Applicants

Due to recent changes to U.S. immigration rules, HIV-positive visa applicants are no longer required to answer “yes” to the DS-160 application question: “Have you ever been afflicted with a communicable dis-ease of public health significance?”

Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a final rule that removed HIV from the list of commu-nicable diseases of public health significance.

Learn more at the following link: http://travel.state.gov/visa/laws/telegrams/telegrams_4631.html.