u/dto_lurker

Many of us on the register received an email with an updated Candidate Guide. The language testing seems to have greatly changed. Looks like they don't mention the contract at all, and there is not any mention of different scores needed for harder languages like Arabic or Chinese.

What do you guys think about these changes? Do you think Chinese and Arabic need 3s now? I'm kinda confused.

It looks as if it was meant to stream line most of the document so I'm wondering if they just forgot to mention the different difficulties of different languages.

I was added to the register in April. I have language points added. To what I understand no DTOs were invited for June. Some specialist were invited yesterday. Some generalist today.

Are they just not hiring DTOs anymore? They put out an announcement and started taking applications again. There are still a bunch of us on the register.

People keep saying DTOs are needed at every embassy but I'm not seeing hiring that reflects that. Anyone care to speculate what is going on?