US says non-immigrant visa holders to reapply overseas

siliconindia.com: "The US State Department has said that foreigners with work visas in America will have to go to its overseas embassies to be interviewed and fingerprinted to renew their visas from July 16. A law passed in 2002 requires visas of the future to include biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints. The State Department encourages holders of the affected visas (those classified in categories 'E', 'H', 'I', 'L', 'O' and 'P') to apply for renewal in their home countries. Boucher also said that 50 percent of visas under these categories are from India and the rest are citizens of Japan, China, the UK, South Korea."