The US Embassy here has scheduled every Monday for interviewing Saudi students applying for study visas to the United States under the King's foreign scholarship program. Dr. Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Mousa, Undersecretary at the Ministry of Higher Education for Scholarship Affairs, has welcomed the step because it facilitates the enrollment of Saudi students at American universities. He said the ministry, through the Scholarships Agency, represented by Dr. Majed Abdul Kareem Al-Harbi, Director of the King's Program for Foreign Scholarships, tried to find a solution for the long waiting periods that Saudi students had to endure. He said the efforts of the ministry and the lengthy discussions held with the officials at the embassy had yielded positive results. A special section of the embassy's website is devoted to the students of the program, where they can fix a date for an interview. He said that in the past the program's students faced great difficulty to fix an appointment for the interview. Sometimes the waiting period was as long as four months. However, the situation has changed now with Monday as the new time slot. It has been fixed only for students of the King's foreign scholarship program.
