; recruitment Subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose, the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs shall expand the Consular Fellows Program by 5 percent annually through fiscal year 2030 by recruiting individuals with a demonstrated interest in serving the United States Government and living abroad and who possess valuable language skills, particularly individuals whose scores on the Foreign Service Officer Test are within 10 percent of the score required to be invited to the Foreign Service Oral Assessment, to participate in the Consular Fellows Program. (3) Training Each participant in the Consular Fellows Program shall complete 6 months of training in the United States, which shall include conducting English-language interviews of visa applicants on behalf of— (A) consulates that have an insufficient number of consular officers; or (B) the consulate at which the participant is expected to be stationed. (4) Post-fellowship benefit With respect to an individual who successfully completes an assignment as a Consular Fellow with the Bureau of Consular Affairs lasting not less than 3 years, during the 1-year period beginning on the date on which the individual completes that assignment, the Secretary of State may noncompetitively appoint the individual to a position in the Department of State. 3. Improving accountability and transparency (a) Nonimmigrant visa processing standards It is the sense of Congress that not fewer than 80 percent of applicants for nonimmigrant visas who submit applications at a United States consulate should be interviewed by appropriate consular staff not later than 21 days after their application is received by such consulate. (b) Wait times The consul general at each United States consulate shall— (1) categorize wait times nonimmigrant visa applicant interviews based on goals established by Congress, the Secretary of State, or the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; (2) make such categorizations publicly available